Evening star., 1952-09-20

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an administration which there
after will keep it clean.
Believe in JoiIing
Guilty Parties
Now, when it comes to OUT
right corruption of any kind,
I know the first thing to do
about it. We believe in failing
the guilty parties and in firing
those who have condoned guilt.
Thanks largely to- Republican
persistence, there has been a
widespread exposing Of scam
dals in our Federal Government.
A good many people in public
life or holding public Office have
been Jailed or fred or allowed
to resign because of "ill health"
I think know what you want
in dealing with this situation.
You want an administration
that does not leave the discov-
cry and uprooting of corruption
to mere chance. You want an
administration which does not
wait around until Congressional
committees are obliged to dig it
out.
You are looking forward to
an administration which will
put, every investigative agency
of our Government on the job
and keep those agencies on the
job until the last crook and
near crook have been run down
and run out. Then I am for
going on from there to see to it
that we have an incorruptible
Government because political
appointments are given only to
incorruptible men and women.
What is the source Of these
unprecedented misdoings in our
National Government? The
answer is not hard to find.
This Administration has allowed
and helped the machine bosses
in our cities to move their kind
into Federal posts and to prac-
tice on the national level the
vicious morals of boss politics.
I need not recite to you the
long list of those who have had
and still have a pass to inner
offices on the highest level of
government.
One thing the bosses have not
done: They have not quit the
party too long in power. One
thing has not happened to
them: The party too long in
power has not thrown them out
not one Of them. Who. If that
party tried to throw them,
would do the throwing?
Can we trust the party that
elevated them, that desperately
needs their bought and deliv-
cred votes? You and I know
better than that-and so do the
American people.
Democratic Candidate
Sidetrocked by Bosses
The American people know
the whole sorry record. Let
us look at that record-a re-
cent part Of it. At the Demo-
crat National Convention one
candidate for the nomination,
q distinguished United States
Senator, was far out in front
with the rank and file Of his
party. In every poll. in. every
primary vote, he led all others
among the rank and file of party
members. But who was this
Senator? He was the man who
had been going up and down
across this country. courage
ously exposing to the. view Of
the American people the traits
of boss politicians. He exposed
their coast-to-coast use of poll
tics as a means to promote
crime. corruption and organ
lied immortality.
What happened to the cam
didacy Of the Senator who had
done these things? You know
what happened to it: It ran
head-on into the city bosses.
Could it be that they blocked
him because he had exposed
them? And who gave the final
conclusive nod-who delivered
the votes-that sewed up the
nomination for the present
Democrat candidate? The
bosses. The heirs and joint
heirs OF the Kelly machine in
Chicago. the Tammany ma
chine in New York, the Hague
machine in New Jersey, and
the Pendergast machine in
Kansas City-to name q few
Of them.
I sympathize with the nomi-
nee of the Democrat Party be-
cause of the company he is
obliged to keep.
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