Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-14
Democrats

Democrats
It y an old g1mmiak IN American
politics to accuse the opposition Of
knavery. Veteran pohticos, pillo-
ried By their opponents - thieves
and hirslings Of The Interests
whatever those might be--hardly
turn q hair or blink an eye. They
know it IL part of the game. They
know, too, that when their turn
on the stump comes up, they will
be able to get in their hcks ut the
opposition.
But the Democrats were scream
ing last week. They were not
screaming about routine name
calling, however. Their cries arose
in reaction to Republican oratory
that seemed to brand the whole
Democratic Party as a sort of
border-line SubverSive conspiracy.
Last weeks star on the Demo-
cratic side OF the stage was Mis-
Souri's junior Senator, W. Stuart
Symington, ex-buSineSsman and
ex-Air Force Secretary whose per-
sonal standing as a non-subversive
is unimpeachable.
In the Senate on Monday, Mr..
Symington blasted at recent mean
and false attacks made outside
the Congress by various leaders of
the Republican Party" He called
the Senate'S attention to- such
Democrats as Senator George OF
Georgia and former Speaker Ray
burn OF Texas and asked, in effect.
Are these men fellow travellers?
Senator Symington singled out
for condemnation Attorney Gen
eral Brownell, White House Coun-
sci Bernard Stanley, Republican
Finance Chairman Carlton Ket-
chum, Gov. Dewey of New York,
Postmaster General Summerfleld
and Presidential Assistant Sher-
man Adams.
The 'Sodism' Remark
The Missourian recalled that Mr..
Adams had referred to the Demo-
cratic opposition as political sad
lists" Said Mr.. Symington:
After reading that statement,
went to my dictionary and looked
up the word 'sadiSm.' There was
one definition for it. 1t states
sadism is 'perversion marked by
extreme cruelty
Il believe =. [Mr. Adamsl owes
an apology to the Democratic
members of the Senate and of the
House he criticized. If I may re-
specially say so, If he does not
make apology, he should not hold
his high office"
AS Of this week end, Mr.. Adams
had not apologized.
After Mr.. Symington finished
his blast, he staged a sort of sena-
torial minstrel show, acting as
interlocutor while Senators Hill of
Alabama, Lehman of New York
and Humphrey of Minnesota Call
fellow-Democrats) played end
man for him.
The import of this Democratic
barrage was that President Eisen-
hover needs Democratic support
for his program-and he had bet
ter call off his dogs If he wants to
make showing at this session of
Congress.
The ultimatum was couched
more politely than this, of course
But the meaning was there, hid
den not too far beneath the
surface.
Or the same day, in the House,
Sam Rayburn took the floor for
one minute. He said
sold owhiIe ego thot the backs Of
some Of Us ore getting pretty sore. We
ore being eolled on to Co operote, yet we
hove people high in the administration
and people high in the Republican Porty
indicating thot everybody connected with
the Democratic P0rty is at Ie0st tinsed
with communism. Then the mon who is
closest to the President Of the United
Stotes on lost Saturday night indicated
we were all sodistS.
OF course, those statements ore neon,
they are untrue, they ore dostordIy. They
should be stopped by somebody. and there
is one mon in the United Stotes who con
stoD thof kind az folk