Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-26

House efforts to confuse voters
tests.
The Democratic vice presto
a quick change in the topic for
his main speech here this after
noon. Shortly before landing he
gave out the text of his address
which presented painstaking
effort to make clear exactly what
Mr.. Stevenson actually proposed
about bomb tests.
Although couched in tones OF
an appeal to the Eisenhower adj
minlstrstion to cooperate by
taking the issue out of politics
it neverth eless took some
healthy slaps at President Eisen-
hover. Vice President Nixon,
Thomas E. Dewey and Officials
talking in secret chambers in
Washington"
Talks to Stevenson
Most if not all of the speeches
Mr.. Kefauver planned durinP to-
days visits in the Lancaster, Leb-
anon and Reading areas OF
Pennsylvania had been indicated
as likely to deal with .abo", cost
of living and farm problems. Last
night in Springfield, ILL.,. he and
Mr.. Stevenson discussed the H.
bomb question at some length at
their conference. Senator Ke-
fauver's choice of the subject
for the Lancaster speech was one
result.
"A smokescreen of confusion
has been thrown about this issue,
including one put up by the
White House" he charged.
"There is all kinds of nonsense
about its endangering our weap-
ons program and other aspects
of our preparedness think
the people of the United States
are ahead of most Republican
politicians on this issue
1.-THE question of preventing
hydrogen war is the most urgent
now before mankind. If we fail
to meet the issue, if we permit
the confusion spread by Nixon
and Dewey and even President
Eisenhower to confuse the voters
on this issue, then we may see
continuing and accelerating
arms race eliminating in a
global war and followed by a
dark age from which mankind
may never emerge"
Will Return to Ohio
That idea is being offered as
one of several reasons why he de-
voted SO much energy in talking
to hundreds of Democrats and
others in Ohio and Pennsylvania
and why he intends to go back to
Ohio next week. Whatever his
political fortunes and future,
Senator Kefauver gave impetus
and practical organization expe-
rience to lonely party contin-
gents in small Democratic beach,
heads.
In the opinion of his aides.
this could produce beneficial
growth in coming wears.
While necessarily yielding the
forensic floor to Mr.. Stevenson
last night, the Tennessee Senator
made quick use of phrase
coined by notable Republican
Illinoisan He paraphrased Abra-
ham Lincoln's remark about the
impossibility of fooling all of
the people all the time.
Paraphrases Lincoln
"1'm here to tell you that you
can fool the farmers only once"
he said to the Springfield audi
ence.
-Four years ago candidate Eli
senhower did a lot of fooling
with his promises. They fooled a
lot of farmers. The truth is that
the Eisenhower administration
betrayed the American farmer.
Time and again you have seen
direct promises that were made
to you by candidate Eisenhower
fatty repudiated by President Ell
senhoWer.
after all these broken
promises the Republicans have a
lot of gall to again be asking
for the support of farmers. The
Democratic Party, the party that
pioneered programs for the farm
er, offers a sound, sensible, real
istic program to get agriculture
and the farm program off the
low road where Dick Nixon,
Dwight Eisenhower and Ezra
Benson have placed it,"
1t is hardly accurate to de-
scribe him as "a new Kefauver. "
Nevertheless. as has happened
on several occasions this week,
Senator Kefauver again seemed
to gather fresh power and per-
suasiveness in responding to au-
diences that respond to him.
Some of the rally crowds of
one or two thousand persons in