Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-21

Washington:
One week ago tonight many of
us heard the keynote speaker
at the Democrat National Con-
vention ask mournfulIy, again
and again. how long, oh America,
will we keep our Republican adj
ministration in Office at Wash
ington.
We are met here in San Fran
cisco to answer that question.
In part, it has already been
answered by the very man who
asked 1t at Chicago.
When the American people
watching in their homes. heard
the chosen spokesman for the
Democrat Party pour scorn
abuse and ridicule on such great
public servants as Dwight D
Eisenhower and John Foster
Dulles, they could remember
that two Democratic Presidents
had been happy to utilize Mr.
Dulles great talents for diplo-
macy. They could remember
that President Roosevelt had
called on Gen. Eisenhower to
accept the tremendous respon-
sibility of leading our armies in
the great Crusade for Europe
and that President Truman had
offered him his party's presi-
Dental nomination for 1948,
And the American people could
see for themselves that the only
offense these two fine Ameri-
cans have committed, in Demo-
crat eyes, is to be Republicans.
This is a naked admission
that they are nov addicted to
the principle that loyalty to a
political party comes ahead OF
devotion to our beloved country,
We reject that false concept;
and so, believe. do the over
whelming majority of American
citizens. I
So the answer to the plaintive
question that lowered over the
Chicago arena, along with the
ghosts of the past, is simple. The
American people will, I believe
and hope, throw the Republic
cans out of Office the day when
if ever, they copy the Democrat;
and put the party first anc
America second.
"our porty's purpose :. is moi
to give 'em hell but to give
them leadership"
And am sure that I voice
the faith of our great President
and others when I add that oul
party's purpose in this campaign
is not to "give 'em He'll" but tt
give them leadership.
That is why we have as
sembled in this, the 26th Ma
tional Convention of the Repub.
lican Party: We are here tt
pledge to the American people
four more years of honest
efficient administration of oul
Government by the fine men anc
women who have been called tx
serve them at Washington-foul
more years of our crusade for {
finer America in better Worlc
under the competent, steadfast
fortnight leadership of Dwight
d. Eisenhower.
That crusade began in Chicago
four years ago. Some might fee
that this crusade belongs to us
as members of the Republican
Party; this is not the case
Instead, our party is only th'
instrument that gave it voice
and form-and opportunity.
Against the backdrop of q
demoralizing years of discorC
and defeatism in our public at
fairs, ending up in fragrant cor
ruption, this crusade caught fir,
with the men and women o
America. 1t was they who CAV,
to us the task of leading a gov
eminent dedicated to real peace
real prosperity and real progress
1t is they who will decide thi
year whether we are to continu,
so to serve them.
Meanwhile at home we havt
reduced spending without sac
rificing essential services. w,
have brought efficiency int
Government, though there is We
much to be done. We have
checked the runaway imitation
We inherited from the previous
administration. We have reduced
taxes by SIS billion a year. Ant
the truth is, the reductions hav
benefited all the people o.
America. Favoritism and "crony'
ism" in Government are now {
thing of the past.
Let US keep history stroight
We shored up falling farm
prices"
We have built new program
10 fortify our farm economy. Ant
here let us keep history straight
The decline in farm prices begar
right after World War II. Prices
kept going down until the Ko
rean war. Even before that wa
was over. they started dowI
again. By the time this Repub
lican administration took office
the bottom was falling out
Quickly we shored up the fall
ing prices. Flexible price sup
ports took hold with the 1876
harvest. Under the new Repub
hcan laws-in the first ST,
months Of 1Q56-aVerace farm