Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-23
Eisenhower Assigns
Nixon 10 Stump ]. S.
In Fail Campaign
=, By Jack Bell
Associofed Press Stoff Writer

RsSOCiotoo Ftoss S'd'i tNsisos
President Eisenhower has as
assigned Vice President Nixon to
campaign for Republican Senate,
and Governor candidates In o
series of tours which win take
Mr.. Nixon into about two-thirds
of the States before the Novem-
Der election.
Gen. Eisenhower himself viii
keynote the campaign tonight
on radio and television. But
while the President plans visits
to several States. he apparently
is counting on Mr.. Nixon as q
stand in for the kind of openly
political campaigning Gen. Eisen-
hover himself doesn't like to
undertake. ~
Mr.. Nixon, now on a To-day
vacation in Maine, will assay
the political situation in confer
ences with individual members
of the Republican National Com
mittee in q three-day workshop
session at Cincinnati, Ohio.
from August 80 through Septem-
Der /.
Record to Be Stressed.
COP National Chairman
Leonard Hall announced the
Cincinnati strategy meeting last
night, saying the committee
would examine such matters as
the 83rd Congress excellent
record of achievement" and the
Eisenhower administrations "for-
ward strides in the field of Fed
eral thrift and efficiency"
The Republicans No. and
No. Q men apparently won't
waste any time campaigning in
the South in this years battle
for control of Congress. Gen.
Eisenhower has said he has no
"plans to speak in Dixie. Mr..
Nixon will invade Kentucky and
possibly some other border States
but will go no farther south.
Mr.. Nixon, who discussed cam
paign plans with the President
at a White House breakfast be-
fore Gen. Eisenhower left for
Denver. Is expected to follow
closely the theme the President
sets in tonight's address.
Knowland Halls Achievement.
The White House already has
claimed a high batting average
Of accomplishments for the Re-
publican controlled Congress.
Senator Knowland of California,
the G. o. P. floor leader. pointed
this claim up over the week end
with the declaration that Con-
gresS and the administration
"have given the Nation its
greatest period of prosperity in
history"
There was some dissent to
this from the democratic side.
Senator Clements of Kentucky
head of the Democratic Sena-
torial Campaign Committee, put
in the Congressional Record
series of tables showing labor
surplus areas in 81 States with
the observation that he believes
4 million or more persons are
now unemployed.
I'm the first five months of
1854 business failures in the
Nation were 80 per cent above
the same period, for last year"
Senator Clements said. This is
the highest record of business
failures since 1941."
Kerr Disputes Farm Claim.
Senator Knowland's claim that
the Republican administration
and Congress had "acted to
strengthen the farm economy"
through the substitution of
flexible for rigid price supports
on basic field crops was disputed
by Senator Kerr, Democrat of
Oklahoma.
Senator Kerr said in an inter-
view that he is convinced the
farmers of his State are Al
against flexible supports.
u think that holds true
throughout the Midwest and the
Republicans will find it out in
November, he said.
Although Senator Lyndon
johnson of Texas, the Demo-
cratic leader, said Congress
record on foreign policy is such
that 1t is not likely to be a
major issue in November, Sem