The Miami times., 1952-09-27
SPEAKING OF
MESSES!

OOHlcOllG HdS IdC6CIOuSly SdlO
of the EngliShman that he never
learns anything and never forgets
anything. He is Intellectually
hidebound. We are beginning to
wonder if this is not true. of the
defunct Republican party. T h e
party has lost the last four cleo
tionS on fault finding campaigns.
The most glaring example of
the Importance of a fault finding
campaign was the abortive cam
paign waged in. 1948. Dewey is
without doubt one of the politi-
cal Stalwarts of the generation
and beside him Taft is mere
pigmy But Dewey was content
to base his campaign on the fall
lacious assumption that proving
how bad the other fellow is is a
proof of ones own integrity.
This is an old political clue,
but the advance of intelligence has
nullified this error to the extent
that voters are looking for some
thing constructive from polite
ian and office-seeker. We have
Gen. Eisenhower committing
himself to this Self-Same campaign
of trying to undermine confidence
in the Democratic party as
means of face-lifting for the Re-
publican party.
1t was not done in 1948 and it
will not be done in 1852. The Re-
publicans are frustrated and po-
litically depraved and utterly
without direction. The only SEM
blance of a platform is something
taken from the New and Fair
Deals.
The Grand Old Party is pitiful
in it's current plight, where man
of Eisenhower deserves better
fate; for in very truth he is being
sacrificed on the altar of Repub-
lican reactionism.
AS long ago as last summer
this writer discerned in Eisen-
hower'S line the serious intention
of courting the dixiecratic vote in
Dixie. What he said in a subtle
way last summer he is imple-
menting in a big way in the cur
rent campaign by making an
open bid for the dixiecratic South.
The diXiecratS are entirely too
wild about Ike to give comfort
to thoughtful Negroes. The dix
iecrats are states Fighters who are
anti-civil rights to the very core.
The states Fighters doctrine was
"a sugar coating for the anti-civil
Fighters avowed intention to
eternalize as far as possible the
subjugation of the South's Negro
citizens.
To come out boldly and say
they were opposed to civil rights
for Negroes would have brought
down upon the head of the dixie
Gratis the condemnation of the
nation and the world. 1t would
have given totalitarian Russia
another stick to crack our demo-
cratic head.
But thoughtful Negroes are not
deceived by the term states
Fighters. They are bitterly op-
posed to any program political or
otherwise that comes from GER
tain stripe of Whites of the South.
The state Fighters must not be
confused with that thoroughgoing'
liberal, fairminded segment OF the
white South who are genuinely
interested in the advancement OF
ali the people. The White group OF
high ideals is just as embarrassed
hv the dixiecratic assumption as
the Negroes are handicapped oy
it. -
But back to this matter OF
,nesses. The General is loud In ms
protestations against what ne
calls the mess in Washington. he
makes no mention of the mess
that Roosevelt found 20 years ago.
the economic mess that had MIL
lions of unemployed and our IL
nancial structure in a state OF
collapse.
We would like to ask the Cen
eraI what about the mess In DIX
lie? Or would he call 1t a mess
where political corruption and IN
timidation have for 80 years de-
MED the right or suffrage to Ne
croes what our Constitution
vouchsafes unto them. What about
the thousands and thousands OF
unpunished lynchers at large In
the South?
What about the rampage and
floggings of the Ku Klux Klan?
what about the new type of