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Show Demo Chairman Blasts GOP Rips 'Guns or Buffer' Choice Line John M. Bailey, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Com-mittee, has described the Republican Repub-lican "guns or butter" choice as a "phony and misleading issue." Writing in The Democrat, mailed over the weekend to Democratic leaders and workers all across the country, Chairman Bailey said: "The fact is that the Republicans Republi-cans are not talking about luxury expenditures but about sensible and prudent investments to strengthen the fabric of our society soci-ety and to provide the economic base we need for a long-haul struggle with the communist world." Chairman Bailey said the Republican Re-publican Chairman has made it plain that the GOP regards as "butter" such essential programs as aid to education,, decent housing, hous-ing, help for depressed areas and medical care of the elderly. He added that "decent housing, good ! education, full employment are I paramount among the things that we do need for the long-range competition. . . . The programs the Republicans are opposing turn out to be, under un-der careful examination, the programs we cannot afford to sacrifice the programs which will provide us with the mental, moral and economic muscle which are just as important as military hardware as we face the prospect of a long twilight struggle strug-gle with the communists which every sensible American hopes and prays can be waged without an atomic holocaust." In another signed article, Thorn Lord, Democratic Chairman Chair-man of New Jersey, describes the gubernatorial campaign there. He reports that the Re-I Re-I publicans have sought to drag in outside issues and that Democratic Demo-cratic candidate Hughes will defeat de-feat former Republican Labor Secretary Mitchell. |