Evening star., 1952-07-21
Governor Fails
10 Declare He
Would Refuse
Welcome for First
Democratic Session
Is Fighting Speech
By Gould Lincoln
Star Stoff CORRESPONDENT

OLSNcIlSOI1 VI 1lllIlUiS, III a great
rallying speech prepared for de-
livery as the Democratic National
Convention opened. today well
coined the delegates to Chicago
and perhaps nominated himself
for President.
The Illinois Governor stead
fastly declared himself not can
Text Of Gov. Stevenson's Address to
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BiffIe Will Try Role of Peocemoker in
Rift on Southern Delegates. Pose A.
Other Stories Reloted to Democratic
Convention in Chicago. Pages A-2-9
didate; that he "did not want to
be a candidate" right up to the
very hour of the opening session.
He failed. however, to tell a cau-
Gus of the Illinois delegation that
he would not accept a nomination;
that he would not run if nomi-
mated. This is interpreted as
meaning he would accept if nomi-
mated.
Tremendous pressure in many
delegations to bring about the
nomination of Gov. Stevenson is
under way as a consequence.
Members of his own Illinois dele
cation frankly told the Governor
they believed it their duty to vote
for his nomination-for the sake
of the party and of the country
even though they disregarded his
wishes.
The Stevenson nomination drive
got big lift from Pennsylvania
delegation. At caucus last night,
an informal poll of sentiment
showed 80 of the States 70 votes
for Stevenson on the first ballot.
with enough second choices to
give the Illinois Governor 60
votes on subsequent ballots.
Further, the delegation elected
former Senator Myers its chair
|man-and Myers is q strong
Stevenson man. David j. Lawrence
and Mrs. Guffey Miller, the
States members of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, both
voted for Gov. Stevenson in the
poll. Senator Kefauver of Ten
nessee had 1512 votes, President
Truman 8, and Averell Hartman
u vote.
Fighting Address by Stevenson.
In a fighting address, which in
large measure set the keynote for
convention. Gov. Stevenson told
the delegates the Democratic
Party has a great record of past
achievement-but that is not
enough.
.Me dare not just look back
to great yesterdays" he said. I'VE
must look forward to great to-
morroWs.
What counts now is not just
what we are against, but what we
are for. Who leads us is less i'm
portant that what leads us-what
convictions, what courage, what
faith-win or lose. A man doesn't
save a century or a civilization,
but a militant party, welded to
a principle can. So I hope our
preoccupation here is not just with
personalities but with objectives.
1T was here just 20 years ago."
the Governor continued, "in the
depths of a shattering national
misery at the end of a dizzy decade
of Republican rule that you COM
menced the greatest era of eco
nomic and social progress in our
history with the nomination Of
Franklin Roosevelt"
Senator Douglas Speaker.
Senator Douglas of Illinois, a
Kefauver supporter. said in pre-
pared speech that Republicans
from Gen. Eisenhower on down
must share any blame that at
tacheS to the Korean conflict.
Noting that the Republican
platform criticized the withdrawal
of American troops from Korea
before fighting broke out there.
Senator Douglas said the Joint
Chiefs of Staff reported in 1947
that Korea had little strategic
value to the United States.
"Now, who do you suppose was
Chief of Staff of the Army when
this military advice was given?"
he asked. 1T was Dwight D.
Eisenhower"
Ridicules G. o. p. Charges.
Gov. Stevenson ridiculed Re-
publican charges that "all was a
miserable failure" He said that
lat the Republican convention,
''pompous phrases marced over
this landscape in search of an
idea, and the only idea they found
was that two great decades Of
progress in peace, victory in war,
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