Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-02
Nixon Cancels
Talk in Boston
On EIectionEve
BY MARY McGRORY
Star STAFF Correspondent

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treading the last mile Of his
high-road campaign, backtracks
through Pennsylvania today,
carrying his message that the
country must keep Mr.. Eisen-
hover in the White House to
keep peace in the world.
The Middle East crisis has
caused Mr.. Nixon to change his
final campaign plans. Last night
be followed President Eisenhow-
er's lead in canoeing an election
eve appearance in Boston. He
plans now to return to the Capt.
tai and remain there through
the election, instead of return
Ing to California to vote.
All day yesterday, through
pennsylvania. Mr.. Nixon was
greeted by large. enthusiastic
crowds, which never failed to
applaud when he told them that
in the matter Of keeping the
peace, "Adlai Stevenson Just
isn't in the same league with
President Eisenhower"
At his six whistlestop appear
ances, Mr.. Nixon, played hard
on the trust papa" theme,
which is a major one in his
campaign. He did not elaborate
on the administrators plans or
policy in the deepening crisis,
simply saying that the President
was qualified by experience and
background to handle it.
Talk on Crisis Seen
Speculation arose here that
Mr.. Nixon IN his final Pennsyl-
vania appearance at a Hershey
rally tonight, which will be tele.
vised Nationwide, might discuss
the tense international situa-
ton, departing from the basic"
speech which has seen him
through the campaign thus far.
The basic" speech, known
here as 1.-The speech" got a.
warm reception. as did he.
throughout the Keystone State,
with its holly contested 80 cleo
oral votes. The most gratifying
event OF a day wholly satisfying
to the Nixon camp, was perhaps
the huge street crowds which
turned out to greet him in Pitts
burgh. whose Mayor David
Lawrence is a potent Stevenson
partisan.
Outside Mr.. Nixon's hotel. al
throng patiently waited to seeI
him of to his evening speech at
the Syria Mosque, where he once
again told an audience of 1000
that I'VE cannot settle for
second best"
This is what he had been say
Ing all day. and in fact, all during
the campaign. Unlike AdlaiI
Stevenson, who travails endlesslyI
TO produce a new speech several
times a week. Mr.. Nixon does not
mind repeating himself. 1t seems
TO be part Of his plan to show
that he has nothing up his sleeve
ana this has made him the most
practicable campaigner in the
field.
Sales Trip
If the Stevenson campaign
seems something like a literary
enterprise and the Kefauver
campaign something of a lark J,
the Nixon campaign can be
classed as a sales trip.
Moving into each new territory
with legendary efficiency, MI.
Nixon covers the same ground
every time. His product: the
virtuous Eisenhower administra-
ton. 1t is couched in terms that
any high-school student-and
there are many in Nixon audi
ences-can grasp. Literally in
terlarded with you sees" and
get misses" it draws heavy ap-
plause in all the right places.
Adlai Stevenson is a notori-
ously uneven performer on the
rostrum; Estes Kefauver is an
Indifferent one, who would
rather be down front shaking
hands. Mr.. Nixon, a superb
technician. delivers each WELL
worn phrase in crisp ringing
tones. The suspense that per-
vades the Stevenson encourage
will he suddenly rise up and take
fire from a hot audience?-isI
totally absent here.
Mr.. Nixon seems to some OBJ
servers to be following the fa-
mouse advice given a young
politician by an old one: Wear
clean shirt and shave every
day." He has turned deaf ear
TO the salvoes of criticism that
have been fired by those whom
he now calls "our friends of the
other side"
Tolerant Attitude
Adlai Stevenson has called the
Vice President Little Lord
Fauntleroy." has spoken Of his
new political personality as the
result Of "a hand-laundering and
dry-cleaning process" has dubbed
him "a man Of many masks"
and one whose trademark is
SANDER"
The Vice President has replied
in tolerant. rather patronizing.
terms. In Pittsburgh, he called
the Democratic presidential
nominee "a Monday morning
quarterback who would lose his
head completely II he had to
call the signals in the big game. :"
This is a pale shadow Of a
1854 Nixon thrust at Mr.. Stew
enson, whom he then called "a
graduate Of the Acheson College
OF Cowardly Communist Con-
tainment."
Mr.. Stevenson is today to Mr..
Nixon "a well-intentioned man. I"
The chief difference between
the "old" and the new Nixon. {"
in short. would appear 10 be that
the new one seems 10 feel that