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

historic occasion in the l64th
year Of our party's glorious ex-
istence for the purpose of en-
gaging in deliberations, setting
forth the issues, and making
certain nominations not con-
fined merely to the welfare and
interest of the Democratic Party,
but dedicated to the greater
glory Of God, the welfare of all
our citizens. the leadership Of
the free world and the progress
Of all mankind.
From these halls in Chicago
shall 60 forth the candidates Of
competence and conscience who
shall become the next President
and the next Vice President of
these United States of America.
1t is because the Democratic
Party is close to the heart of the
people-alert and responsive to
their changing needs and re-
Observation-Disclosures by ties to
any special groups-bearing no
leopard marks of privilege-en-
gaglng in no side-dealings down
at the Bureau OF the Budget with
a banker from Boston-and BEAR
ing no handicap of Nixon,
Dixon and Yates-that the
Democrats of America convene
tonight in a healthy, happy,
harmonious mood-calrnly con-
ndent and inspired about the
outcome in November.
Yes-We are met here tonight
to plan for the happy hour when
representatives of the party of
the people are restored to direc-
lion of the national government
land when the opposition party
OF privilege and pillage passes
over the Potomac in the greatest
water crossing since the children
OF Israel crossed the Red Sea.
How different, however, will
be the fate of the parties to this
mass exodus!
Where the children of Israel
had only Moses to lead them on,
the evacuation of January, 1857,
will be an astronomers dream
Of shooting stars, for this trek
will have generals to the right
of them. generals to the left of
them, and generals in front of
them as these old soldiers fold
their tents and just fade away.
Then. for the first time, the
Federal Civil Defense Admins
tration. about which we have
heard so much lately. will get
a concrete test of its evacuation
theory-and we are determined
to see that it works in actual
practice!
:" Nominating q genial,
elomorous and offobIe gen.
erol -"
In that great fadeaway Of the
century will be a Republican
administration with a sordidI
record Of broken promises and
unredeemed pledges = a party
which degenerated while out of
power to the extent that it was
not qualified to govern upon its
return-a party that four years
ago admitted to the world that
it did not have within its ranks
a single bona f1de member whose
record and ability could COM
mand the confidence of the peo-
pie, by nominating as its stand
ard bearer in 1852 over its logical
leader from Ohio, a genial.
glamorous and affable general
who had Joined the Republican
Party after he had reached the
age for retirement from the reg
ular Army-a party that mas
ter-minded a political campaign
cunningly conceived to convince
the people that they we're voting
for and honoring a great mill
tary hero, and not putting back
into power a discredited, de-
funct party for which he was
the most available front!
Now we are not Just against
the Republican Party.
The point is that we are Just
for the American people.
We are not going to engage
in the smile and smear" tech
nioue.
But before this great national
campaign of 1856 gets one hour
older. we serve notice of one
thing:
We are not afraid to fight
and We are not going to sit back
and watch one of the Republican
candidates Smugly attempt to
lift himself above and beyond
his party, meantime holding
hands with the vice-hatchet
man of the Republican Party
without interference from
Gettysburg-charges 20 years of
treason to the Democrats, and
accuses the membership of the
Democratic Party--that means
you and that means me. my
friends and fellow Americans
with treacherous conduct!
-. Most politically intemper-
ote individual in modern
American politics :"
All they try to do to defend
such an outburst of political in
temperance from the most
politically incorporate individual
in the history of modern Ameri-
can politics is to peep from be-
hind the curtain of confusion and
guilt long enough to wave a
check for a thousand dollars and
say: prove i'll"
Well, we'll prove he said it,
and Wen prove much more, too,
before this campaign is over.
We don't want their thousand
dollars. All We want is to serve
the cause Of decent political de-
bate!
That kind Of double faced
campaign by the opposition-the
vice Ratchet man singing
SANDER and spreading half