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The Nome nugget., 1952-04-07
TWO-MilliOn Vote Expected Illinois Primary Tuesday
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PREss)

Names made the political news Monday on the eve of a possible two-milliOn vote turnout for H. linois' presidential preferential primary.
 Illinois has 4,818,000 registered voters. A two-million ballot Tues day was looked for because of a happy weather forecast and steam generated by stump speeches and write-in campaigns.
 The primary is strictly a popu- larity poll. Results are not bind ing on delegates to the presiden- tial nominating convention, all though they may influence lean ingS.
 Sen. Taft and Gen. Eisenhower seem headed toward a possible deadlock at the COP presidential nominating convention in July.
 Taft generally is conceded to have twice as many delegates as Eisenhower now but an apparent trend recently is to split state support between them. Hence, they could come down to the wire practically neck-and-neck.
 Taft and former governor Stas- sen of Minnesota, who also seeks the COP nomination stump-tour- ed Illinois all last week. Riley Bender of Chicago is their only opposition on the ballot but an Eisenhower write-in campaign is being pushed.
 Sen. Kefauver of Tennessee is unopposed in Illinois Democratic primary.
 At Chicago school editors con- ference Sunday, Kefauver and Stassen were asked if they would accept a vice-presidency nomina- ton. Kefauver said no. Stassen declined to speculate" on any thing but the presidency.
 Rep. Hugh Scott IT,, of Pennsyl- vania, former COP national chair man, said in Richmond, Va: "The best thing Taft could do to serve his party and nation would be to second the nomination of Ike at the convention"
 Gov. Theodore Roosevelt Nc Keldin of Maryland met Eisen- hover for lunch in Paris Sunday. Afterwards, the governor said they hadn't talked about when the general would come back to this country but that ''I got the feel ing he intends to do something promptly, without delay"
The Nome nugget., 1952-04-07
April 5 Is "A Big Day For This Family

INDIANAPOLIS, (P - April 5 was Paul E. Fangman, Jr.'s 20th birthday anniversary, the 18th for his wife, Carole. They didn't cele- brate together. Mrs. Fangman was in the hospital giving birth to their first child, Lee Carole.
Evening star., 1952-10-12
Stevenson Pledges
Support 10 Mahoney
BY the Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE, Oct. 11.-George
p. Mahoney announced today he
had received a telegram from Gov.
Stevenson and Senator Sparkman
pledging him their full support
In his race for the Senate.
The Democratic nominee for
the Senate in Maryland released
this text of a telegram from the
Democratic presidential candi-
dates:
The Democratic Party alone
can offer the leadership our de-
mocracy requires in these troubled
times.
I'VE appreciate your support of
our campaign of talking sense to
the American people. Working
closely together. we can look for
ward to a smashing victory for
the high principles of the Demo-
cratic Party. We want to be of
every help to you in your CAM
paign in Maryland. We would also
appreciate your advice"
Mr.. Mahoney hailed this as a
"direct and unequivocal" answer
to his Republican rival for the
Senate, J. Glenn Beall.
Mr.. Beall had telegraphed Gov.
Stevenson earlier in the week ask
ing him if he still supported Mr..
Mahoney in view of some of the
things Mr.. Mahoney had been say
ing in his campaign. Mr.. Beall
cited Mr.. Mahoneys statements
demanding a curtailment of aid
to European Allies.
Evening star., 1952-10-12
States Rights Doctrine
Is Philosophy of Party

My own service as Governor
of Illinois has taught me the
virtues of states rights as a
bulWark against big govern
ment. You and I know that the
doctrine has sometimes been
put to shabby use-that it has
served as an excuse for inaction
rather than as a shield for our
personal liberties. But, as I have
often had occasion to remind
some Of my more impatient
compatriotS, state and local
government is, and must always
be, the basic structure upon
which the Federal Government
is built.
I should like to call to your
attention the following Ian
guage in the Democratic plat
form:
1.-THE Democratic Party has
demonstrated its belief in the
Constitution as a charter Of in
dividual freedom and an effec-
tive instrument for human
progress. Democratic admins
trations have put upon the
statute books during the last
20 years a multitude of meas
ures which testify to our belief
in the Jeffersonian principle of
local control, even in general
legislation involving nationwide
programs In the present
world crisis with new require
ments of Federal action for Ma
tional security, and accompany
ing provision for public services
and individual rights related to
defense, constitutional princi-
Piles must and will be closely
followed"
I am not one who regards a
party platform as an instrument
which loses it's validity once the
votes are counted. I have told
you earlier that I stand upon
the Democratic platform - the
whole platform.
I am aware that some 90-odd
years ago Tennessee held some
very unwelcome visitors from
my native State of Illinois. 1t
is perhaps presumptuous for me
to dwell, as I have. upon the
history of your great region. I
can only enter this plea on my
behalf: have been told that
it is improper to brag about
your family in the South-un-
less your family happens to be
Southern. Mine does happen to
be.
The line goes back across the
Evening star., 1952-10-12
es 6. 0.P. Truth Team Y
IS Charges Truman Rides
On 'Phony Express
BY the Associated Press

BUFFALO, N. Y. Oct. 1.-THE
Republican Party'S self-naned
truth team" said today that
President Truman started his
coast-to-coast tour ION the crony
express but ended up on the
phony express"
"Mr. Truman travelled fast and
talked fast but he simply could
not keep ahead of the collapsing
house Of cards he has built" the
team declared in a statement.
The team. now consisting OF
Senators Ferguson of Michigan.
Hickenlooper of Iowa and Case Of
South Dakota. has been trailing
the President since he started his
tour. Its members have been
challenging statements made by
the President at many of his
stops.
The three Senators termed Mr..
'Truman'S talk here Thursday
night "a firebug speech in typical
Truman style-unWorthy of
President of the United States"
HE came running with a fire
hose to put out the very fires
started by the double dealing Of
the New Deal-Fair Deal adminis-
'trations," they said.
The Republican Senators de-
clared:
Poland and other eastern
European countries were betrayed
when Roosevelt. inspired by Alger
Hiss :. agreed to let Soviet Rus
sia take 40 per cent Of Eastern
Poland"
Evening star., 1952-10-12
Healthy IndividuoIism
Breeds Party Conflicts

It is significant, think, that in
their march to the sea the Re-
publicans have tended to avoid
discussion of what passes for Re-
publican foreign policy. Instead
they have harped upon an alleged
left-wing conspiracy of which I
am supposed to be a helpless cap
tive.
To a sharp young man from a
New York advertising agency, this
probably looks like a pretty good
line. The South's great tradition
of individualism has brought the
region into conflict with essen
TALLY urban PHILOSOPHERS often
enough-and I would do neither
you nor the Democratic Party any
service if I sought to dismiss the
domestic issues upon which we
sometimes divide.
But the Republican claim to
holding an exclusive patent on
individualism is perhaps the great
est of the absurdities they offer
in lieu of party program. They
would argue that a proper Fed
eral concern for the economic
Evening star., 1952-10-12
Bea|| Hits Stevenson
For Suggesting Russia
May Soften Policies
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Oct. l1.-Repre-
sentative Beall. Republican nomi-
nee for the Senate. today attacked
Gov. Stevenson for suggesting that
Russia may have softened her ag-
gressive policies.
Mr.. Beall said Gov. Stevenson's
statement "is a deliberate attempt
to lull the American people into a
sense OF security which is not
founded on any real accomplish
ment OF the Truman-A -Acheson for
eign policy"
His charge was in the form of a
statement released by his Balti-
more headquarters while he was
campaigning in Garrett and Ale
Eany Counties from his home in
Frostburg.
Mr. Beall called Gov. Steven
sons statement "a desperate at
tempt to mislead the electorate
and to make them think the
greatest danger of Russian ag-
gression and a world war have
passed.
Deserves No Confidence.
Stevenson knows this.
ut is obvious from the very
subtle way the statement was
phrased and the careful qualif1ca-
tions which made it. in effect,
completely innocuous.
"How can the people have faith
in a man who can say that Russia
may stop being the aggressor and
who. later in the same address,
qualities his remarks by such in
antics as saying that he used may
have because that is at least
possible Interpretation of Stalin's
most recent pronouncement.
"Such a man deserves no conf
dence and his own self-confidence
must be pretty shaky to bring
forth such a weasel-worded re-
mark"
Mr.. Beall said he would follow
the policies Of Gen. Eisenhower.
the Republican presidential NOM
inee.
Foresees Vital Policy Shift.
THE general. he said. has
never been guilty of such mis-
representation"
Gov. Stevenson told a. luncheon
conference at Oklahoma City Fri
day:
I'VE may we'll be seeing-this
week in Moscow-a shift in Rus
sian policy which may be of great
Importance.
THE Russians may have de-
cided that their aggressive policies
have been too risky and that they
have more to gain by honey than
by vinegar.
II say may but if that is at
least a possible Interpretation of
Stalin's recent statement only
time will tell"
Gov. Stevenson said if the Rus
slams are changing their ways it
is because the Truman admin
stration's policy of collective
strength has worked so well.
Evening star., 1952-10-12
|Sparkman Denounces
Power Lobby Links
III With Eisenhower
By the Associated Press

GREYBULL, Wyo., Oct. IL
Senator Sparkman said tonight
"the power lobby is trying to- make
the people believe that this whole
great reclamation program is
nothing but socialism"
IF they can make you swallow
that, then they have got you-and
you haven't got any chance to get
any more cheap electricity" the
Democratic vice presidential can
didate told a Democratic rally"
He spoke in Northern Wyoming S
Big Horn Basin country where
reclamation was pioneered.
Says They Want Toll.
"The power lobby has the notion
that when the peoples rivers are
developed" he said, "some private
utility ought to stand guard at
the power house to control the
power and collect it's toll"
Senator Sparkman told an audi
ence of ranchers and farmers that
development of the Vests re-
sources had to be undertaken by
the Federal Government because
individual communities cannot
develop them fully by themselves. j"
He mentioned such undertake
ings as the Shoshone project near
Cody, Wyo., the nations first
reclamation project. and Central
Wyoming's Kendrick reclamation
project near Casper.
Benefit for People.
Using their Government to de-
velop their own resources" Sena-
tor Sparkman continued, "the
people themselves reap the bene-
fit. No special privilege group
stands in the way to collect its
toll"
He declared even greater bene-
fits were to be gained by the
people from such giant develop
ment projects as the Missouri
Basin and Columbia Basin pro-
grams.
He said Gen. Eisenhower had
said during a campaign speech
that the Government would build
the dams and will tell you how
to distribute your power"
THAT talk is power lobby talk"
Senator Sparkman said.
Evening star., 1952-10-12
Committee Chairman Posts
Held Mostly by Southerners

would suggest, in particular.
a careful perusal of the list of
committee chairmanships in
both Houses. And I would ask
these gentlemen to explain just
how the South would be better
served by Richard Nixon of
California as presiding officer
OF the Senate, rather than John
Sparkman of Alabama by Joe
Martin of Massachusetts, as
Speaker of the House, rather
than Sam Rayburn of Texas;
by Senator Saltonstall of Mass
achusetts, rather than Senator
Russell of Georgia, as chairman
of the Armed Services Commit
tee; by Mccarthy of Wisconsin
rather than Mcclellan of Arkan-
sas on the Expenditures Com
mittee; by Millikin of Colorado
rather than George of Georgia
on Finance; Aiken of Vermont
rather than Ellender of Louisi-
ana on Agriculture: Capehart Of
Indiana rather than Maybank
of South Carolina on Banking
and Currency: Representative
Reed of New York rather than
Cooper of Tennessee on Ways
and Means; Chiperfield of Illi-
nois rather than Richards of
South Carolina on Foreign At
fairs: Mcconnell of PennSyl-
vania rather than Barden of
North Carolina on Education
and Labor; Wolicott of Michi-
gan rather than Spence Of
Kentucky on Banking and
Currency; Short of Missouri
rather than Vinson of Georgia
on Armed Services; and Hope
of Kansas rather than Cooley OF
North Carolina on the House
Agriculture Committee.
When I speak of Southerners
in Congress I am not reminding
you of their Importance solely in
terms of the South'S immediate
self interest. These men hold
key positions in the formula
ton of National policy-and
most important cf all in these
times, in the formulation of in
ternational policy. I state a
simple fact when I say that no
Democratic President could
have succeeded without their
support and counsel in the past
and I am under no illusion
that any President, Republican
or Democrat, can succeed with
out their assistance in the
future.
The suggestion that the men
the South has sent to Washing
ton and to the National conven-
tions of the Democratic Party
have been impotent stooges is
gratuitous insult to them and
to you. I have noted that on a
good many occasions many of
them have been prone to take
healthy swipe at the Demo-
cratic donkey. But in one great
field of policy-and this to my
Evening star., 1952-10-12
Room Enough on Platform
For All in Democratic Party

But there are two things, I
think, that need to be said in
that connection.
In the first place, I refuse to
believe that there is any con-
f1ict between by viewpoint and
yours in regard to the stated
objective of this platform plank.
I do not believe that Southern
ers have less regard for human
dignity than other Americans.
I do not intend to dismiss this
issue lightly. But it is my con-
viction that our difference, such
as it is, is no more than dis
agreement over the method by
which we should pursue a COM
mon end.
Now the fact that some Demo-
Gratis disagree with other Demo-
Gratis on some issues is not a
source of alarm to me. Blind,
uncritical submission to any
party line is foreign to Ameri-
can tradition-certainly it is
foreign to the concepts of the
Democratic Party. I am re-
minded of the late Henry Wat
terson, the great editor of the
Louisville Courier journal. who
was taken to task for belaboring
the Democratic Party in the
editorial columns of his great
Democratic newspapers. Marse
Henry replied: Things have
come to a pretty pass. when a
man can't cudgel his own jack
ass
I would be the last to argue
that the judicious application
of stick to the Democratic
donkey is not good for his
health. The genius of the
Democratic Party lies in its
ability to adjust conflicting
Evening star., 1952-10-12

mind is the all-important con-
sideration in this campaign
Southern delegations have stood
firm.
South's Military Tradition
Like That of Gen. Jackson
Evening star., 1952-10-12
heca man have demon Stra fed


These men have demonstrated
that the South Is still what IL
has always been-a great Amer
lean reservoir of enlightened in
ternationalism SouthernerS ral-
lied behind Woodrow Wilson in
the heartbreaking fight for
world peace a generation ago.
Southerners have rallied be-
hind Franklin Roosevelt and
Harry Truman in the present.
day struggle against Fascist and
Communist imperialism.
The broad view of the world
is part of the Southern tradi-
ton. So is a historic readiness
to defend liberty with arms
wherever it may be threatened.
In every season of peril we have
known, Southerners have been
among the first to reach over
the mantel for the squirrel gun.
But Southerners have never been
deluded that arms alone could
guarantee peace. Yours is not
the tradition Of the professional
soldier-yours, as this state so
proudly attests, is the tradition
of Andrew Jackson and his VOL
unteers.
Southern readiness to rally to
the defense of the Nation has
never dampened the Southern
hope that somehow we could to-
gether build a world in which no
nation would ever again need to
defend itself. In no region of
the country has that ideal
burned brighter. And not only
have Southerners dreamed of
peace, they have led the strug-
gle to make that dream reality.
In the early days of this Ma
tion, John C. Calhoun of South
Carolina was the first to warn
of the dangerous course fostered
by blind and selfish men who
sought to build tariff barriers to
seal off the United States from
the healthy competition of world
trade. John Calhoun coined the
slogan tariff for revenue only"
which to this day remains the
battle cry of the Democratic
Party. And generations later,
it was a great American from
Tennessee, Cordell Hull, who
moved to undo the damage of
years of Republican high tariffs
with his reciprocal trade agree
ments.
This is the record of the
Democratic Party-and of the
South. I find it incredible that
the Republican Party now sends
glib men among you to tell you
that somehow all this has been
Wrong-that the isolationism
which never sank root in this
region now represents your last,
best hope.
1t is true that the principal
of the Republicans these
days is a man Of considerable
1t is also true that it is
difficult to distill the real mean
ing from his nebulous phrases
But you of the South have been
on these matters for
many years. I do not believe you
will be deluded. I believe that you
that when you gaze
upon the five stars of Eisenhower
you must listen for the voice OF
Robert A. Taft.
Evening star., 1952-10-12

we'll being of the people is incom-
patible with human liberty-an
assertion that runs counter to the
whole history of this Nation.
Grinding poverty, as you in the
South once had occasion to learn,
is the ultimate foe of human dig
nifty. The Bill of Rights is scant
comfort to a starving child.
The great problem OF gov
ernment in our time is to keep
economic security and political
liberty in proper balance. 1t
seems to me that the accom-
plishments of what the Republic
cans call big government can
be defended. For instance. the
Towering of the Valley of the
Tennessee under a wide Federal
program is one of the great
achievements of our generation.
I do not have to indorse IVA
to this audience-and l see no
signs here tonight of that
slavery from which the general
promised to protect us when he
pledged that there would be no
more Twas if he is elected.
But I conced that big gov
ernment can be defended only
as a necessity brought about by
the compleXity of our age, and
compounded by the external
threat from our Communist
enemies. l would not deny, in
deed have often asserted, that
there is an eternal threat to
out liberties inherent in big
government. The great talk
before the next President Of the
United States will be to main
tain the balance-to see that
neither internal nor external
security is paid for in the coin
of personal liberty.
1t is a task that will call for
wisdom, restraint and prudence
and, above all, for deep de-
votion to our Democratic prin-
cipleS. can assure you that it
is not task 1 would assume
lightly-nor will I ever be guilty
of offering you the quick and
apparently easy answers that
are the refuge of the inexperi-
enced and the Office hungry.
Evening star., 1952-10-12

mountains to Iredell County.
North Carolina. I am confident
If I picked up a telephone di-
rectory in Nashville, or in any
other Southern city, I would
find all the names that adorn
my family tree-those names
that gave a staunch Scotch
Irish lacing to the whole his
tory of the westward move
membranes like, Osborne.
Ewing, Macwhorter, Wallis, Gill
lespie and Brevard. I even &C
quired my odd prefix, Adlai, back
there in North Carolina when
one of those old Presbyterians
went looking in the Bible for
something to call one of his
numerous sons.
I would not like for you to
think of this as the effort of
another itinerant politician to
strike up "kissin' kim" 1 don't
believe I need to make, such a
gesture.
believe that in the year
1852, as it has been for more
than a hundred years, it is
enough in the South for a man
to present his credentials as a
lifelong Democrat. I believe
this is adequate assurance that
the man who stands before you
is friend-deeply aware of the
great contributions the South
has made in the past to this Ma
ton of ours, supremely conf
dent of the equally great con-
tributions 1t will make in the
future. determined that both
shall receive their due and the
South its rightful place in the
sun,
Evening star., 1952-10-12
Furnaces Use Iron Ore
At 247 Tons q Minute

GARY, Ind.-Iron and steel
making furnaces in the United
States consumed nearly 1870 mil
lion net tons of iron ore during
1851 at an average Of PAT tons a
minute. This was 10 million tons
more than the total used in 1850.
On the average. the furnaces
used iron ore at the rate of a
pile with dimensions of the EN-
pire State Building every II days.
Evening star., 1952-10-12
Stevenson Text on Threat to Souhs Leadership in Congress

viewpoints and arrive finally at
programs and policies that meet
the highest aspirations of all
Americans.
This is why the Democratic
Party survived all it's early COM
petitors-and why today it re-
mains the great, vital force in
American politics. This is why
the Republican cry for change
for the sake of change strikes
such a discordant note. From
Thomas Jefferson forward, the
Democratic Party has repeatedly
demonstrated its capacity for
adapting itself to changing con-
ditions - without heedleSSly
sacrificing the tested values of
the past.
This, I believe, is the real rea-
son for the almost unbroken de-
vOtion of the South to the DEM
ocratic Party since it's inception.
My opponent has come among
you with the suggestion that you
have somehow been blind and
lmpotent captives in the past
drained of your political SUBJ
staEce by cruel masters who give
you nothing in return. And he
has suggested that the way to
freedom lies in following those
embittered apoStates who pro-
claim themselves Democrats
while supporting the nominees
of the Republican Party.
This strange course is now
urged upon you by Southerners
who obviously lack the courage
Of their own imported convic-
tions I say it can only lead to
the political emasculation of a
region which has played a tre-
mendous role in shaping Amer
lean policy from the dawning
days of this Nation.
The suggestion that the South
Can obtain national political
influence only by bedding down
with the G. o. P. runs squarely
counter to the record. I would
refer these latter-day Mug
wumps to a roster of the United
States Congress.
Evening star., 1952-10-12
Mccarthy Will Speak
Twice in West Viroinio
BY the Assoeioted Press

PARKERSBURG, w. Va, Oct.
Ex-senator Mccarthy of Wis
consin, will make two appearances
in West Virginia.
Republican State Headquarters
announced today that the Sena-
tor would appear October 81 at
a place yet to be designated in
Southern West Virginia.
His speaking engagement at
Clarksburg on October 20 pre-
viously had been announced.