Evening star., 1952-06-28
Democrats Can Beat
IAnyG.0.P. Candidate
kefauver Declares
By the Associated Press

kefduver Declares
BY the Associated Pres.
GOLDEN, Colo, June 28.-Dem-
ocrats will win next November
unless some of the leaders in our
party deliberately decide to throw
an election away" Senator Ke-
fauver asserted today.
And we can win against any
candidate the Republicans put in
the field against u.s." the Tennes-
seean added.
He made the statement in an
address prepared for delivery to
the Colorado State Democratic
Convention, where delegates with
IA of the States 16 convention
votes are being chosen. The other
two delegates, both uninstructed,
were picked by Denver a week ago.
Senator Kefauver arrived here
late yesterday after speaking be-
fore the national convention of
the United States Junior Chamber
of Commerce at Dallas.
Assails Opponents.
In his Colorado speech he said
Those who are opposing me in
this campaign are chiefly those
men who are more interested in
control of the machinery of the
Democratic Party than in winning
elections.
Il do not mean to say that
party bosses do not like to win
elections. They do. But control
of party machinery comes first"
Senator Kefauver charged that
newspapers and news magazines
of the Nation were concentrating
their coverage on Republican pres
idential candidates and were
largely ignoring Democratic can
didates.
THE greatest of the Nations
newspapers, I believe. has at least
one eminent reporter with each
of the major Republican candi-
dates" he said. without MENTION
ing the name of the paper. Per-
hapS it has several.
Called One Time.
'Yet during the Western State
primary campaigns in which
took part, a reporter from this
same paper contacted me once by
telephone. That was during my
campaign in Oregon. But the
telephone call was about some
thing going on in Ohio"
when we are right we Demo-
Gratis can win with most of the
press against us, or ignoring us.
We have done it before and we
will do it again. And once more
we may see the spectacle of the
experts asking themselves what
happened"
Senator Kefauver's speech to-
day was the third made in the
State within the last "a hours by
presidential aspirants. Senator
Kefauver and Senator Kerr ad-
dressed the Colorado delegates in
preconvention sessions yesterday,
and Senator Kefauver and Averell
Hartman, Mutual Security direc-
tor, were given places on today's
program. Senator Russell spoke
last night at Denver.
Hits Removal of Controls.
Mr.. Hartman said at Cheyenne,
Wyo., before motoring to Colorado
that removal of price and rent
controls "is going to lead to the
kind of economic disaster which
Stain has been waiting for"
"The Republican businessmen
are extremely ignorant about
what people think and are eco
nomically illiterate," he told IS of
Wyoming's 20 delegates.
Senator Russell, in his Nation
wide radio speech from Denver,
said "the issue of survival" is the
central pivot of the campaign.
He bore down on Republican
candidates by saying there just
is no such thing as cheap secur-
ity." The Georgia Senator blasted
Republican promises of immediate
tax reduction as completely un-
realistic"
Our military commitment alone
in 1858 prohibits such reduction
unless those who advocate these
nostrums would imperil the arms
program"
Cites Eisenhower Statement.
Senator Russell, while not men
tloning Gen. Eisenhower by name
told the Democrats, II should like
to hear the reaction of our boys
on the Korean front to a recent
statement by a general in mutt
right here in Denver that we have
no more to fear from Communist
military might than from polly
WogS swimming down a muddy
creek"
Senator Kerr told the Assembly
here that Gen. Eisenhower would
not be able to push through his
proposed foreign policies if elected
Taft and Martin and the hard
core OF isolationists would be in
control Of Congress-" Senator Kerr
said. mot even an Eisenhower
could prevent them from retreat
ling from isolationism and losing
1.-THE peace"