Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-20
No Month Like November for Good Hunting
LETTERS TO THE STAR
More of Our Much-Discussed Election


perilous action in the field
Of foreign affairs" Very true.
But it can refuse to confirm
an Adlai Stevenson or a
Chester Bowles as Secretary
of State. That will help some.
1t must also watch carefully
and examine each of the
career" men chosen for am
Observation-Disclosures they
are attuned to the liberal
line, will aid another Castro
to grab power, or what. The
Senate can insist on good
men!
Senate conservatives can
coalesce against prodigious
spending. Two more Republic
can Senators were gained at
this election to offset the
Nominations of Fulbright and
the folderol of Kefauver. With
the Southern stalwartS like
Byrd and Robertson of Vir-
GINA, the grand old Senate
can really show it's muscle!
w. J. d. Bell.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
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President-elect Kennedy is
apparently destined to face
tasks which would make the
Augean stable look like a bird
cage.
He cleared his way through
the greatest odds his age, his
religion, and his wealth.
none of which were legitimate
issues. He unSeated in q ma
tional election a member of
an incumbent administration.
Now. he must somehow con-
vince The Star that he is,
indeed, President-elect and
has a mandate from the
people.
Your editorial the day after
election set the tone which
your rationale since has fol-
lowed in q uniformly negative
fashion. The victory. accord
ing to the argument, was due
to the big city" voting
blocs," and Democratic Or
ganization." Never once has
it been suggested that 80 mil
lion people voted intelligently
for an ideal and a program,
and voted him the full powers
of the presidency. These peo-
pie should rightly resent your
conclusion that they were
voting for meaner reasons.
Your editorials also search
in vain for a thing you de-
scribe as a mandate" There
is nothing in the Constitution
which calls for a mandate"
consisting of an enormous
plurality of votes. Full powers
are granted upon election.
Thus there is no reason for
Mr.. Kennedy to exercise the
restraint you feel should
govern him upon assumption
Of Office.
In the absence Of a whole
some acknowledgment from
The Star. I say, "Congratula-
lions. Mr.. Kennedy-we will
support your leadership as
we have that of every other
President in the past"
Yvette Zasada.
The editorials of The Star
must be written by men far
from the realities of life. For
example, they ask their
readers to believe that cleo
ton day fraud on a large
scale seems improbable"
But anyone who knows New
York, including Harlem; Phil
adelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago,
st. Louis. Los Angeles is ia
miliar with the fact that
honest counting of ballots
simply never happens. Those
cities are controlled by polit-
ical dictators who, in 1860,
favored Kennedy. Nixon won
where there was no fraud
on a large SCALE"
Fergus Hume,
Culpeper. Va.
*%&
Please give my congratula-
ton to Mr.. Kennedy. I hear
Mr.. Khrushchev is delighted.
I suppose now Mr.. Kennedy
will give in bit by bit so that
before long we will be a Rus
sian satellite.
Disappointed.
n y X y
Prior to the election, there
appeared on television sew
eral unemployed steel work.
ers. Before a Nationwide
audience, each blamed the
Republic can administration
and the President for their
being out of work, and let it
be known that they were 60
ing to support the Democrats.