Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-14

OIIlce CIldC SpTlDBS ITOm ana De-
longs to the people (regardlesl
of what the Republican Party
may think, then there is a Ger.
tain element which Historically
cries:
Don't do that!
HE is a Republican President
HE is above criticism!
He is beyond attack"
The Democratic Party ho.
never asked for immunity -
Well, be it to our everlasting
credit, the Democratic Party has
never asked for immunity for oul
leaders-and the record will show
that the Republican Party never
lhesitated to criticize them.
Did they jump on Woodrow
Wilson? Did they hound that
great humanitarian and idealist
to his grave?
Did they jump on a happy
warrior from the sidewalks OF
New York named Al Smith?
Were their attacks on Frank
lin D. Roosevelt unbounded AND
unmerciful? But he sat there in
his wheel-enair taller than his
critics could standl
Did they jump on Harry S
Truman?
And he jumped right back
didn't he?
Well, the time is at hand for
a prescription that calls for the
Republicans to get a little
medicine of their own. Only we
will administer 1t in an ethical
and humane manner.
No responsible Democrat has
ever uttered one word that re-
f1ected upon the personal charac-
ter or integrity of the President.
No loyal citizen ever attacked
his personal family.
No God-fearing Democrat
wishes for him anything less
than the best of health and the
greatest of happiness.
But in this national campaign
year, that decides the course of
four more years of American
fate and history, the people are
entitled to know what his plans
are for running the country
should he proceed to set up a
White House board of directors
and pass around high powers
to a small and inside group.
They are entitled to have him
accept all responsibilities that
belong upon Manufacturing
that most unbearable load of all,
the responsibility for Nixon's
responsibility!
HE connot Jim Hogertize his
way through this whole cam
poien -.
In this campaign year of en-
forced political accounting. the
people are entitled to have
access to all the facts.
And we deserve them from
the one man who should make
the answers - Dwight David
Eisenhower.
He cannot Jim Hagertize his
way through the whole cam
paignl
We have the obligation to the
people-the political
duty - and the unquestioned
right as citizens as we'll as mem
bers of the Democratic Party
to appraise and to evaluate
every fact and situation involved
in this election.
The Presidents record and his
party's record are one and the
same. He cannot pry them
apart.
No, we are not talking about
his health at this point.
But if you do want to talk
about somebody in this country
who is good and sick--down on
his bed-frail and forlorn-for-
saken by the political doctors he
trusted three-and-a-half years
ago as friends-but realizing now
that he has been devitaminized
by. the G. o. P. and Bensonized
by Ezra B.--then I refer you to
the American farmer.
Look at the farmers income:
Down 26 per cent under the
Eisenhower Nixon Benson ad-
ministration.
But whose income is up?
Corporate prof1ts-34 per cent
Dividends-24 per cent.
Now nobody objects to that
But there is righteous ground
for objection that the farmers
Income is being ploughed under
rs per cent these past three-and-
a-half Republican years by the
party that said when it came
into power it was going to be
tall in the saddle for big bust
.ness-and has kept that promise
with the highest batting aver
age IN the history of American
politics.
Why didn't it keep that cam
paign promise to peg parity al
90-a promise solemnly made by
their presidential candidate al
Kasson. Minnesota. in Septem-
Der, 1852.
No. my friends: You cannot
judge the prosperity Of a Nation
by the earnings of a privileged
monopoly.
THE former doesn't belong
in the GiIded Old Party ="
You cannot serve the people
when you are unable to break
through the barricades of fav.
oritism thrown up by an exper'
fenced general staff in behalf
Of chosen few
The farmer simply doesn't be.
long in the G. o. P.-the Gildec
Old Party.
Let the statistical abstract Of
the United States tell the reason