Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-27
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Accuses President and Nixon
He remarked in Reading that
President Eisenhower and "his
heir apparent, Richard Nixon, y
CLOSED over the most recent
increase in the cost-of- living in
dex. But, he added, neither of
the top Republican candidates
has said much if anything about
serious unemployment condi-
tons and depressed areas.
The Tennessee Senator and
Pennsylvania Gov. George M
Leader, who have some physical
and facial resemblance. teamed
up for the motorcade over what
they hoped was a lucky horse
shoe turn through Pennsylvania
communities such as Lancaster
Lebanon and Pottsville to
Reading.
Mr.. Kefauver flew late last
night to the Philadelphia Air
port where he took off this
morning for Martinsburg, w. Va,
to hit the highways again from
almost one end of Maryland to
the other.
His schedule calls for a return
late tonight to Washington, but
only until 3 am. tomorrow. when
he flies out again to Ohio, Illi-
nois and Michigan and then to
New England.
Says Eisenhower Fell Down"
In his speech at the Abraham
Lincoln Hotel in Reading last
night he employed much the
same phrases and approach on
the unemployment problem as
he did earlier this week on the
farm problem in Iowa. In other
words-or rather in often prac-
tically the same words-he &C
Cused the Eisenhower admins
tration of falling down on the
job of doing anything for the
jobless.
This Republican administra-
ton of Eisenhower and Nixon"
he charged, has been guilty of
breaking a long string of cam
paign promises it made to many
groups in our national life. But
none were so calloused as the
breaking of a promise which
seemed to offer hope of reliev-
ing suffering and privation in
the depressed areas. When I'M
employment spread in 1853 and
1854 President Eisenhower said
he would not plan any slam
bang emergency program. We
Democrats don't believe that
inaction solves anything"
Express Confidence
Despite the dismal day and
the fact that the Kefauver
cavalcade saw far more scenery
than people along the streets
and highways, Senator Kefauver
and Gov. Leader said they were
confident the mileage was not
wasted all day yesterday.
At a noon luncheon at Lam
caster, attended by 500 cheer
ing Democrats in a community
that has not voted for a Demo-
crat since James Buchanan, Sem
ator Kefauver patiently explained
and announced he would keep
on explaining everywhere he
goes between now and November
6-exactly what Adlai Stevenson
proposed about ending H-bomb
tests. He accused the Eisen-
hover administration not only
OF taking a do-nothing stand on
that problem. but also of de-
liberately misrepreSenting the
Stevenson statements.
Lancaster Democratic leaders
that the speech was
especially effective if only because
1t gave the Democratic rank and
ME in their community an ex-
PLANTATION of the proposal.
1000 at POttsvilIe
The biggest turnout in the
rain was in Pottsville, home town
OF John O'Hara, the writer, and
an anthracite coal center de-
scribed at a currently depressed
area. Almost 1000 persons, along
with two bands and dozens of
placard carrying teen-agers sur
rounded the rally stand.
Senator Kefauver, after a rous-
ing warm-up address by Gov
Leader, took full advantage of
the locality and opportunity. He
contended that the core of the
Eisenhower administration from
an economic standpoint is what
II was in the Hoover administra-
ton.
At one hamlet along the route
a screaming contest broke out
between opposing groups of
youngsters yelling respectively
for Ike" or Estes" The din in
the downpour almost drowned
out Senator Kefauver. At an
other point he stopped briefly at
a large shed where automobiles
are auctioned off every Friday.
AS he stood to speak from the
auction block he said it was the
first time he ever felt that he was
on a Republican plat
form.