Evening star., 1952-09-04
Thousands Greei
Gen. Eisenhower
In Philadelphia
Rudio-N Address
Tonight Formally
Opens Campaign
By Crosby s. Moves
By Crosby S. Noyes
Stor SioH Correspondent

By Crosby S. Noyes
Stor Staff Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 4.-Gen
Eisenhower swept into the Quaker
City today for the formal curtain.
raising speech of his campaign fol
the presidency.
The general was given a warm
reception. A crowd of severa
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thousand jammed Philadelphia s
Thirtieth street station as the six
car special train pulled in from
New York shortly after noon.
Leading a 200-car parade. Gen
Eisenhower left at once for Inde-
pendence Hall and an inspection
of the Liberty Bell. This after
noon he will confer with Repub-
lican groups at the BroadWood
Hotel. From 4 to 8 pm. he will
rest and dine in his suite at the
Warwick.
Mrs. Eisenhower accompanied
the general to Philadelphia, but
is not going with him on his six
day tour of the Midwest. She will
return to New York tonight.
Speech on Radio and TV.
The generals speech tonight,
under the sponsorship of the
Young Republican Club. is, of
course, a campaign curtain-raiser
only in the sense of being Gen.
Eisenhower's first coast-to-coast
radio-television address since he
was nominated.
(Television Station WNBW
and Radio Station WRC will
carry the speech, starting at
$50 p.mD.
In fact. however, the campaign
is already in full swing. No one
who accompanied the general on
his flying invasion of the South
which ended yesterday-can
doubt that he is, at last, run
ming hard and fast. There is also
agreement that this opening
round has gone very we'll indeed
from the generals point of view
Near the end of the two-day
tour, Gov. Sherman Adams OF
New Hampshire, Gen. Eisennow-
er's personal campaign manager,
showed up in the press plane in
an expansive mood.
Explains Slow Start.
There were many people, he
said, who had thought it was about
time that the Eisenhower cam
paign got off the ground, and now
it had. The reason for the delay
explained the Governor, was that
a candidate who started a full
scale campaign in August ran the
risk of running out of material
and wearying his audience with
repetition.
From here on out, he promised
the candidate would wage "as
hard hitting and vigorous a cam
paign as has ever been waged in
your memory or mine" The gen.
eral, he said, intends to address
himself sincerely and without
pulling any punches" to those is
sues about which the American
people want to hear from politi.
cal candidate"
Gov. Adams thought the triI
had proved that Gen. Eisenhower
was finding himself as politica
candidate" Until recently, he ad.
mitted, the generals military
background had not fully equipped
him to cope with all the com
plexities of partisan political war.
fare.
If it is true that Gen. Eisen.
hover is emerging as a potent
political campagner. it not thai
he has suddenly become spell
binding orator. On his Southern
trip, he revealed q new toughnes:
in marrying the administration. 1r
some of the speeches there were
hints of new talent in the Eisen.
hover camp for phrase e-making
mostly along the line of pat. re.
memberable epithets. But other
wise, it was the same, fiat, hesitant
delivery that has characterized
the candidate since Abiline.
Effective With Audiences.
Admitting this. it is still a fact
that the general puts himself
across effectively to his audiences
In fact, the general verdict on his
Southern tour is that he vowed
them everywhere he went. In
Atlanta, Jacksonville, Miami
Tampa, Birmingham and Little
Rock, he spoke essentially the
same speech to something in the
neighborhood of 100000 people
the overwhelming majority OF
whom would normally be safely
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