Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-11-20

jority in the Senate, we canno
afford to lose a single seat of the
ones we now hold. One seat We
must retain is the one now hel(
by Senator Burke of Ohio.
| In looking forward to mex
years elections, all of us are
heartened by the evidence of ;
strong shift of voter sentiment
/ back to the Democratic Party.
One year ago next week, as we
surveyed the wreckage of the
Democratic Party, things looked
pretty black. Some of our oppo
nents were saying the Democrats
were finished for a long, long
time. But we kept our sense of hu
NOR and the day after election we
started cheerfully about our work
They told me story out in
New Mexico that illustrates our
attitude.
Some of the settlers out there
in the early days went to call on
an old pioneer who had a ranch
in an isolated canyon.
When they arrived at the pio-
neer's cabin, they found just a
heap of ashes. 1t had been burned
to the ground by the Indians.
They looked for the horses and
cattle. They'd all been driven off.
Even the crops in the field had
been burned.
Finally, they saw the old pio-
neer himself, lying on the ground
out behind the cabin, with an ar
row sticking through his chest.
They ran up to him and saw he
was still breathing. Somebody
pointed to the arrow and asked,
"Does it hurt much?"
The old man said, "No, not
much. Only when / laugh"
Well, we weren't quite in such
bad shape last November. But,
like the old pioneer, we hadn't
lost our ability to laugh. We
looked ahead, not back.
And, now, the election records
show that the Democratic Party
has made an astounding come
back.
Why is that? It is basically be-
cause the people of the United
States have deep underlying
faith in the Democratic Party.
They believe in the record of 20
years of Democratic government
under our great Presidents
Franklin Roosevelt and Harry
Truman.
They have a deep respect and
admiration for the kind of cam
paign that was conducted last
year by the man who said, "It is
better to lose the election than to
mislead the people"
They believe that. fundamen-
tally, we are the Party that will
look out for the interests and the
welfare of all the people.
The first important election this
year was in the city of st. Louis,
last spring. The Democrats of st.
Louis nominated an outstanding
candidate, Raymond Tucker. He
was a professor of engineering at
Washington University and a man
with remarkable record of
achievement in civic affairs. He
had led the successful campaign
to rid st. Louis of its smoke nui-
sance-and every woman who ever
hung out a wash to dry knew and
thanked Ray Tucker for that. He
was elected mayor of st. Louis by
the biggest margin in the city's
history.
Later in the spring, a number
of Democratic mayors were elect
ed in small towns in upstate New
York-some 6f them for the first
time in many years.
In Connecticut, in October, our
Party made great gains in state
wide municipal elections. We
elected number of mayors, in
Guiding one in a Republican SUBJ
urban city where a Democratic
mayor had not been elected since
1888.
Another important test was in
the Second Congressional District
of Kentucky. Last fall, we elected
a Congressman there by the mar
row margin of 81 per cent. A
special election became necessary
this summer, and it looked like a
hard, close contest. If the Repub-
licans gained by 4 per cent they
would take that district.
But did they gain? No. indeed.
Having no coattails to ride on,
they didn't even run a candidate.
Our nominee, Mr.. hatcher, won
unopposed.
Three weeks ago, the whole
country came to realize what's
happening. ' That was when Mr..
Lester Johnson was elected as the
first Democratic Congressman in
history from the Ninth District OF
Wisconsin.
Last November We received one