Evening star., 1960-10-20
Catholic Says
KennedyStirs
Religious Bias
BY LEE M. COIN
Star stan Writer

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paign Committee, charged TO-
day that Senator Kennedy de-
liberately is "inflaming" the
religious issue to win Catholic
votes.
Mr.. Miller complained espe.
cially about rebroadcasts in
northern cities Of Senator Ken
nedy'S discussion of the reli.
gious question in Houston
Tex. and about distribution oi
a union pamphlet he inter-
preted as an appeal to "bigotry
in reverse"
He told q news conference
at the Republican National
Committees headquarters:
81 speak as a Catholic. as q
graduate of the University 'oi
Notre Dame, and out of a sense
OF outrage. ] charge that those
running the Kennedy CAM
paign are deliberately keeping
the religious issue alive and In
famed - apparently in the
hope that this will produce
more votes for Senator Ken
nedy among my fellow Catho-
lies. The campaign is calcu-
lated, Nationwide and ex-
tremely well financed"
"BigOtry in Reverse"
Senator Kennedy and his sup
porters, Mr.. Miller charged, ara
conducting "a massive 'bigotry
in reverse propaganda cam
paign, the purpose of which Is
to imply that any vote against
Kennedy is a vote for bigotry."
Instead of helping Vice Presi-
dent Nixon combat bigotry, Mr.
Miller said. Senator Kennedy is
attempting to gain the White
House because of his religion.
He said Mr.. Nixon has for
hidden all campaign organiza-
tions under his control to use
religion as an issue, but can
not control the activities oi
anti-Catholic individuals. BY
contrast, Mr.. Miller said, Sena-
tor Kennedy has failed to stop
his, staff and his supporters
NM appealing to bigotry by
Catholics.
Senator Kennedy, a Roman
Catholic, appeared before the
Greater Houston Ministerial AS.
sociation last month to reafiirm
his independence Of the church
on public questions. Films oi
this session are being telecas.
in some cities.
Resentment Stirred
THE main effect Of this, Mr.
Miller said. is not to answer
anti Catholic bigotry in the
South but to "inflame resent
ment among Catholics" in the
North.
A union pamphlet also dis.
cussed by Mr.. Miller was pub.
lished by the United Auto
Workers. 1t includes q tran.
script of Senator Kennedy's re-
marks in Houston, and a car
toon depicting the Statue ot
Liberty and a hooded member
Of the Ku Klux Klan.
The cartoon is captioned
Liberty or Bigotry." The
Michigan Fair Election Prac-
tices Commission. President
Eisenhower and others have de.
nounced the cartoon as an un-
fair attempt to imply that any
one who votes for Mr.. Nixon Is
an anti-Catholic bigot.
Mistake Admitted
UAW President Walter Reu-
ther has acknowledged that
publication Of the cartoon may
have been a mistake in judg-
ment. and has said his unions
newspaper will clarity the
question in an editorial.
Mr.. Miller said he did no
construe Mr.. Reuther's state.
ment as a repudiation of the
pamphlet. Noting that tht
JAW has indorsed Senator
Kennedy, he demanded thai
the Senator repudiate Mr.
Reuther.
Mr.. Miller said the pamphlet
is "a national issue" becaus.
it also was published by thu
AFL-CIO Committee on Politi
cal Education (COPE), which
he called "the powerful ant
well-financed muscle of tn,
Democratic Party, more inn
portant and more influentia
than the Democratic Nationa
Committee" He added:
IT challenge George Meany
president Of the AFL-CIO, t.
repudiate the publication O
this discredited sheet by COPl
and to stop its distribution b,
COPE"
Pamphlet Restricted
An AFL-CIO spokesman sal
'1COPE national headquarter
ordered 250,000 copies of tn
pamphlet from the UAW sigh
unseen for State COPE head
quarters. AS soon as the natur
} Of the cartoon became knowr
he said, COPE Director Jane
l.. McDevitt wired all Stat
headquarters and ordered ther
to keep the pamphlet out Q
circulation.