Evening star., 1952-10-24

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President told a gathering of Dis
trict well-Wishers at Union Sta
ton last night, as he came bacl
from a three-day swing to th'
Middle Atlantic States which HI
had wound up little earlier a
Cumberland and Harpers Ferry.
The Presidents Cumberland
speech was his first of the cam
Ipaign in Maryland and he uset
lit as a weapon for another bite
attack on the Republican leader
ship.
DenOunces Opposition.
He hung the label of "politica
gangsters" on the top men of th'
opposition, and said they are con
Quoting the same sort of "bacl
street" campaign that was fol
lowed in Maryland in 1850 undel
the leadership of Senator Nc
Carthy, Republican, of Wisconsin
when Republican John Marshal
Butler defeated the veteran Sen
ator Tydings, Democrat.
The Stevenson -Sparkman Clut
master-minded the homecoming
celebration for the President a
Union Station, and Police Inspec'
tor r. c. Pierce estimated tha
about 1000 enthusiastic Demo
Gratis crowded around the rear O.
the Presidents train while rope,
and the concourse gates kept sew
eral hundred other onlookers a.
a distance.
To attract interest In the Tru'
man welcoming exercises. the Ste
venson-Sparkman Club dispatched
a modern Paul Revere astride 6
white horse for the ride from club
headquarters on New York avenu.
NV. to the station. A group o.
about IS young people went along
carrying balloons and placards o.
welcome to the President.
Gets Membership Gard.
Commissioner F.. Joseph Dono.
hue gave the President membership
card No. l in the Stevenson-Spark.
man Club. and also a scroll. at.
testing to the Presidents accom-.
plishments as a campaigner.
Mr.. Truman promptly turned or
the back-platform technique.
He said he found intense inter.
est in the campaign everywhere
and added that he has "stuck tt
the issues" in order to enlighter
the electorate.
"Once in a while I polish little
brass. but it needs polishing" HI
quipped. and the audience howled
Blasts Press Again.
Mr.. Truman took a customar,
crack at the Nations press, de-
claring:
They're against us 100 per cen
and they're trying to make every
thing we do appear wrong" HI
added: -
I'm not licked yet and I'm no
through until the fourth day o.
November"
Mr.. Truman urged those anon,
the voteless District residents wht
can, to be sure and cast theil
absentee ballots, and he pressed
them particularly to tell thei
families back home to get out ant
vote right"
The President went through fiv,
States on the trip which ended
last night, covering Pennsylvania
New Jersey, Delaware, Marylant
and West Virginia.
OF the lot. only West Virginia
went Democratic four years ago
although the Maryland result wa,
influenced by the presence of tn,
Henry Wallace Progessives on tn.
ballot.
Lashes at G. o. p.
With nine votes at stake in tn.
Free State. the President in tn,
Cumberland speech slashed ava,
Justify at the G. o. P. A train,
side crowd Of several Thousand
heard him.
Declaring that Gen. Eisenhowe
lis being pushed for the presidenc,
in campaign of lies. SANDER ant
fear. Mr.. Truman said that tn,
G. O. P. national leadership ha
seized on the back street" tactic
OF Senator Mccarthy and adopted
then on a national scale.
When Mr.. Truman leaves her,
Sunday night, he'll follow a majo
speech schedule carrying him int,
Gary. Ind; Hibbing, Mimi; Chi
cago. Detroit, Cincinnati and st
Louis.
The intermediate stops have no
been settled, but there probabl,
will be 40 or SO.
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