The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-10-18
THE GREAT
GAME OF
POLITICS
b. FRANK R KENT
muUVTAxAa ~ Th~ Baltimore Sen and -
usAsasA n ~ RSU1SlksAa ~ DsElAisstsD
Refuted BY The Facts

Refuted BY The Facts
Perhaps there is no outstanding
issue of either domestic or foreign
policy between the two presidential
candidates in this campaign. Per
haps the real issue is whether the
people as a whole would rather
have Mr. Eisenhower and the men
around him running the Govern
ment in this criticpl stage of the
worlds history than have Mr.. Ste
venson and the men around him
running it,
At any rate, Mr.. Stevenson has
rendered this question of person
ality more acute by what are &C
counted his biggest fumbles since
his nomination. The first of these,
of course. was his putting himself
forth as challenging the President
judgment as a military expert One
would have supposed that anybody
as astute as Mr.. Stevenson is sup
posed to be would have hesitated
to challenge to the position in this
field of the man with the greatest
military experience of anyone liv-
ing and who at the same time has
established himself as the leading
seeker of world peace In addition
Mr. Eisenhower certainly is in pO-
sition to know more about our
whole military Setup, as well as of
that of the Russians, than anyone
else.
Nevertheless, that is exactly what
Mr.. Stevenson did. He made =, sug-
gestion about ending the draft
which seemed to promise that if
elected he would do this sooner
than Mr.. Eisenhower. He also made
the suggestion that he would end
the hydrogen-bOmb tests more
speedily-and thus terminate com
petition between the Russians and
ourselves in this matter of creating
these deStroyers of civilization.
Well, on neither of these sugges-
tions did Mr.. Stevenson find any
support whatever among military
experts and Practically none among
the newspapers now supporting
him. True, his close friend and
counselor, MIR Thomas Finletter,
made a long, apologize and rather
pathetic defense of these Steven
son appeals But. able and sincere
as Mr.. FlnlcttCr undoubtedly is,
they were entirely unconvincing,
and the good Adlai is left in the
position of a man who, with no
foundation at all, has injected the
draft into politics and put forth a
hydrogen-bomb proposal without
knowing what he was talking about.
In his speech last Tuesday, Presi-
dent Eisenhower made it clear that
these proposals by the "opposl-
ton" were purely political, entire
ly impractical and not in accord
with the national security 1t is
typical that Mr.. Stevenson has not
retracted them Instead, he has left
them lying loose with whatever
political appeal there may be to
the unthinking among the voters
generally. He may have gained
votes by such loose oratory-but he
has certainly lost considerable re-
spect among those who thought he
was above this sort of dangerous
demagoguery on so vital matter.
1t seems little worse than his
1852 flop on the Tatt-Hartley' Act.
which he first described AS a good
law but needing amendment and
a few weeks ldttr, unuel pl eoSelo
from the labor boss, Mr.. Walter
Reuther, denounced as slave
labor" act which must be repealed.
No one yet has made denial of this
degrading reversal Nor has any
one tried to fit it in with the pic
ture OF him as a man of integrity
and character The two simply can
not be reconciled.
Another big Stevenson tumble
was his allegation that the Essen
hover Administration had APP
peased" the late Argentine die
tator. Peron, and through DR.. Mil
ton Eisenhower, brother of the
President and now President of
the Johns Hopkins University. had
arranged a huge loan TO the then
Argentine Government. OF course,
the facts completely contradicted
these statements. If there was ever
any appeasement of Peron it was
in the Truman Administration and
the loan was made long before Mr..
Eisenhower became President. 1t
,,o- a ,,atter with which DR.. EiSen-