| Show GP GOP tries to face facts changes are sure to come by BAUKHAGE jwj analyst end and Comment at washington 1 dont want to get into semantics but I 1 havo have to say something about tho the word conservative purely as 83 a word it if I 1 am going to discuss some of the undersurface terms in washington recently it if it is fir fair to define a conservative as a person who has something to io conserve con nerve and I 1 think the american people ar are naturally conservative in that sense when you take away that something americans will join the radicals or anybody else to win back what was vas taken away the tte majority of the people dont want a tree free lunch they just wont want a chance to earn enough to pay for their own lunch but lt if they cant get ak in E lunch any other I 1 way take it how and where they i can get it that la Is a lesson which cef car tain conservatives I 1 cal sense aro arn learning slowly last month tom D a w e y returned from hla his political grave to say at a republican lincoln AGE day y dinner that if the iha GOP tried to go back to the it would become the deadest dearest de adest pigeon in the country the burden of hla his theme was waa that the party was split wide spar apart tanil and it had better get to rether gether slough off one extreme element which wants to turn the clock back and the other extremists who want to nt at promise the democrats no he demanded that the party stand for social process it under n d e r ft a flourishing system of 0 private enterprise ter prise where every human right ts 1 expanded 11 those opposed to ta liberal and policies should betout get ut of the party here again ae we run into semantics what 1 Is progressive what Is 13 liberal for fo that matter matier what is sylvia to one an owl to another a nightingale to the pinks a liberal ii 13 a reactionary to the tha conservative a liberal ia a red dewey xam said that the republican party or the tha party as he sees it believes in unemployment insurance old ago age assistance on on an increased basis in broader kocl social al security generally in slum clearance In public development of our water wafer resources in farm arm price supports in vigorous protection of the rights of et labor and he be teems seems to recognize that all of us republicans included will have to take certain things for granted certain social and political changes which wo may not like any more mora than our grandfathers liked a lot of new tangled ideas they met with li like kethe the safety baior razor say ay the federal reserve board the income tax wo i suffrage all were once considered little less than the instruments of the devil himself by a lot of people who vlaho never think twice about them nov now what policy the federal reserve board follows Is debatable by either political party but nobody would ba be tool fool enough to try to eliminate the board as an institution doth both parties claim they invented it the leize of the income tax and how tta its distributed Is also a matter to bis be settled by the party in a power but I 1 cant quite seo see I 1 anybody trying to eliminate income taxes entirely other matters like the principles of government regulation of f interstate commerce of old age and ln lourance urance and dozens of other activities seem to be here for good food it I 1 am a red for saying that you can measure me for suit of long under underwear weir to match tuck me into the one hoss shay and send me home As a matter of tact fact I 1 am really pretty of a mossback moss back although id trade in my used airplane tor for a rocket if 11 anybody has a surrey gith with the fringe on top and I 1 h had ad a place ac to park ark it what rd fd really prefer mention of taft evokes criticism ono one cant discuss the republican party without mentioning mr tatt taft and whenever wh enaver I 1 say anything good en an the air about sen robert A taft I 1 get letters etters lle like the following from 4 a man in lakewood new york ahad 1 I had in the same broadcast described a tuck truck driver who nearly ran over me 1 I con can see a picture of you he writes looking down your long nose at that thai truck driver and be aleve me I 1 know just exactly how you felt towards him however I 1 wonder which is the most dangerous an idiot with af a truck or an idiot idiol with a vast radio audience you see Clook down mi my long joae at you just as you did thi the truck driver and I 1 have the advantage of having heard a few thou sand of your broadcasts through tills this medium I 1 have explored your tour brain and believe me I 1 find not much there your speaking of the as belr as tafts intelligence telli gence Is a fair measure of your own this was my answer dear sir I 1 have your letter saying baying that hat you wonder which Is the most dangerous the truck driver I 1 referred to or an idiot with a vast radio audience and also that you have heard nio me a few thousand times I 1 am glad to note WO we have so ao much in common my reference to taft which so infuriated the tha letter writer was waa in connection with on an implication that senator taft IS the republican party in the senate as it exists today this situation may change though there are no present indi it will taft rides the ele ela regardless ot of who happens to play the calliope and paradoxically enough it will be senator tait taft the strongest figure in the senate arch republican symbol of reaction to his enemies who probably will be a powerful factor in the enactment of more than one of the so called see social I 1 al service laws which are a A vital ta I 1 part of the administration program housing and federal old aid to education are two measures which might be named and although the taft hartley act will have ft a new name the imprint of its sena senatorial senatore torl al sponsor will not be entirely eradicated from its structure when it comet comes out oi of the hopper taft was able to drag out the labor bill hearings for two weeks longer than was originally planned and I 1 would not be surprised it if theses these lines appear in before his gently led filibuster against the repeal is over or at least long over but that does not mean toft taft or hla his party controls the senate As this his was written a theory was abroad that the republican strategy had developed to the point where if the party would keep its young turks in li nethe so called liberal republican senators who tried and so sw i dismally failed to curb tafts rafts po werthey could count on enough votes of the southern senators on most issues unless these issues step 0 on the toes of southern tradition tw ta wrest control from the democrats in fact the ex of this theory were only a little while ago pointing to defeat of the bill to exempt the tax on the inauguration as proof that the fate of tho the democrats in the senate was a pretty prebi y dark one they explained it was symptomatic when 41 republicans voted against tho the measure and found to their surprise and pleasure that they were able to get six democrats Democrat sto to join them thus providing a majority and defeating the measure that made things look very simple but there is another side to tha story that vote backfired back fired and hurt tho the republicans more than it helped it did more than a little to create democratic solidarity and tho the really deep dashers on capitol hill are predicting that the democrats ore are going to achieve enough unanimity from now on to maintain their majority on major issues there will be of course ma matters aters where members of both parties will mill desert beca because tise the issue involved is such that the particular state or area from which the senator comes has an interest which conflicts with the majority of his party there will be some issues in which democrats will join republicans as well as vice versa and as I 1 said earlier there are some things that dont appear on the surface the burden of the attack against the democrats whether you call them new dealers fair dealers or Truma Tru manKes la Is that they seek seck government control of business now I 1 believe most republican lenders leaders have the brains to admit and if they they can expect to be defeated just as tho ahe liberals and conservatives were beaten in iii england that the best way to kill government control the antithesis of free enterprise because it is government monopoly is to kin kill private monopoly the latter Is a two edged sword against free enterprise first private monopoly kills competition second it opens the way to government ownership today the intelligent leaders of the GOP have to admit what I 1 am sure thoy they believe at heart namely that they will have to let the federal a government do certain things tor for the people if private enterprise cant or wont do those th things ings talt as s well as the young turks knows that they also know that private breeds state control |
