Evening star., 1952-10-19
Truman Asserts COP,
Follows Communist
Line In Campaign
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TO LABOR, ana SAID they had beer
against social security and price
and rent control.
This year. the President said
the opposition Is trying harder
than ever to deceive the people.
in order to win the election.
Winding up his attack, Mr.. Tru-
man jibed that lot of people
had hoped for the "rebirth" of the
G. o. P. this year. but "all they
got was a new paint job"
Mentions Sparkman by Name.
And for the first time in the
New York area, the President
mentioned by name Senator
Sparkman of Alabama, the vice
presidential candidate. as he
praised the Stevenson-Sparkman
ticket. In two speeches in Man
haitian a week ago, the President
did not refer directly to the Sem
ator, whose civil rights record
has been attacked by the G. o. P.
in race-conScious New York.
In Gov. Stevenson and John
Sparkman, our party offers the
country new. fresh leadership,
based on sound and lasting prin-
ciples." Mr.. Truman said.
The Presidents Brooklyn speech
was the thirteenth of his third
day in the East, which started at
breakfast time at Brockton, Mass,
carried him on a 69-mile trip by
Car to Providence r. l.. and then
was rounded out with another
rear-platform swing down through
Connecticut and into New York.
He planned to return to Wash
ington tonight.
Challenges Generals Stand.
Throughout the long grind the
President continued to hammer
away at Gen. Eisenhower, and
here tonight he challenged the
generals stand on civil rights and
asserted that ''in his efforts to get
votes and unity his party" the
general is Saying the same things
as those who have been trying to
pull our country apart"
Interpolating that successful
generals" who have been named
as presidential candidates by po-
their own partisan record" usu-
ally have been "pitiful" figure
heads. the President started by
asking whether Gen. Eisenhower's
leadership has done a single
thing to change the policies of the
Republican Party"
Citing, for example, the civil
rights issue, which is red hot in
New York, Mr.. Truman asserted
that "the Republican candidate
has just uttered crafty equivoca-
tionS designed to win the votes
and the contributions-of the
Dixiecrat millionaire" but still
opposes action by the Federal Gov
ernment to set up an effective fair
employment practices law.
Says Criticism Was Distorted.
On the question of amending
the McCarran immigration Act to-
liberalize the admission into this
country Of refugees and displaced
persons, Mr.. Truman said the Re-
publican candidate "at this elev-
enth hour" has come out in favor
of changes "in words very similar
to my veto of that unfair and
un-American law"
But do you suppose that he
would have taken this stand-do
you suppose his advisers would
even have told him about this
issue-if I had not begun the fight
and if I had not carried it to the
people?" the President asked.
Asserting that his criticism of
Gen. Eisenhower had been dis
torted" on this question, Mr..
Truman said, Il have not sought
to reflect on the Generals mill
tary accomplishments in. the
great fight against the forces of
Hitler in Germany. What I have
said, and what I will continue toI
say, is that the General, as al
political candidate, cannot have
it both ways"
The President said the General
cannot go down to West Vir-
ginia, or Indiana, or Wisconsin.
and put his arm around men like
Revercomb, and Jenner and Nc
Carthy and indorse them for re-
election and ask the people toI
send them to Washington to help
him in his great cruSade-andt
then come back here to New York
and ask people to believe that he
is going to do away with the kind
of injustice that is represented
by the McCarran Act"
Refers to Ex-senator.
The reference was a former Re-
publican Senator Revercomb of
West Virginia, who is trying toI
get back to the Senate this year,
and to the Presidents two most
prominent whipping boys of the
current campaign Republican
Senators Jenner, of Indiana, and
Mccarthy. of Wisconsin.
"Apologists for the general say
he has to indorse such people in
order to help the unity of the Re-
publican Party" Mr.. Truman said.
"That. my friends, is the only kind
of unity it does help"
Reiterating his charge that Gen.
Eisenhower is saying things tend
ing toward disunity, the President
accused the general of contending
that American prosperity is
founded solely on the defense
program-"the same things about
economic conditions in this coun-
try that the Communists are say
ioO Then Mr. Truman said