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Show What Us Hit? Editor's Note: The Salt Lake Times presents the third of a series of articles defining that catchy phrase "New Republican- j ism" which members of the, Eisenhower administration are so fond of using. The information contained in the series was prepared in Washington Wash-ington from official records, news reports and other reliable sources. We will list the definition and then its author. The number of definitions mostly different are unlimited. We have selected) only some of the better ones. "I would like to define a 'modern 'mod-ern Republican' as one who admires ad-mires President Dwight D. Eisenhower Eisen-hower and resolves most of his doubts (if any) in favor of the president." Senator Francis Case in U. S. News and World Report, May 3, 1057. . "Eisenhower Republicanism is not necesarily modern Republicanism," Republi-canism," Rep. Edwin H. May Jr., of Connecticut told the Evening Political Study Group of the League of Republican Women of D. C. Washington Post, April 17, 1957. "In the Republican Party there are also vociferous exponents of this incredible philosophy (of federal domination of the national na-tional economy). It may be, in fact, that they are the 'Modern Republicans' about whom there has been so much discussion inj recent months. Certainly the, faulty premises of 'Modern Re-j publicanism' do not refute this big budget concept. Indeed, it is curious that the administration's departure from its pledges to the American people should occur oc-cur during what believe will be the rather ( brief tenure of splinterized concept of Republican Repub-lican philosophy." Senator Barry Goldwater in Washington Star, April 10, 1957. "... the budget in its purposes pur-poses and scope represents 'modern 'mod-ern Republicanism' in action." Roscoe Drummond in New York Herald Tribune, April 7, 1957. "Definition of 'Modern Republicanism' Repub-licanism' is still debatable. It is called 'vague,' 'pro-Eisenhower,' 'meaningless,' 'progressive,' and unprintable other things, according accord-ing to the slant of the definer. The best guess is that 'Modern Republicanism is for (1) lower tariffs, (2) Internationalism just short of One World, (3) big business with government as the biggest business of all, (4) spend and spend and elect and elect." Dallas News, April 30, 1957. "Modern Republican: A fellow who joins the New Deal 20 years too late then claims he invented invent-ed it." Fletcher Knebel in the Washington Star, March 2, 1957. "Since the president first introduced in-troduced this phrase into our present day poliitcal vocabulary, he has not had either the time or the opportunity to detail for us exactly, precisely and completely, com-pletely, what he envisions as a Republican policy suited to that term. I like the phrase. It gives fully as much emphasis to the term Republicanism as it does to the term modern." Senator Karl (Continued on Page 8) I What n$ on 1 (Continued from Page 1) Mundt, Congressional Record, Feb. 14, 1957. "President Eisenhower recently re-cently outlined his views on what a 'modern' Republican party should stand for. His suggestions were, in our opinion, contradictory contradic-tory for they sought to expand the federal government's activities activi-ties in the fields of health, education, edu-cation, welfare, highway con-1 struction and so on, while at the same time the president calls for 'dispersion of federal power' and decentralization of governmental functions to protect free enterprise." enter-prise." Indianapolis Star, Nov. 25, 1956. ! ' "How would you define modern mod-ern Republican?" "A New Deal Internationalist." Rep. Clare Hoffman, U. S. News and World Report, May 3, 1957. "I would define 'modern Republican' Re-publican' as a free wheeling free spender who has surrendered his constructive conservatism to ride the current New Deal band wagon." Rpe. A. L. Miller, U.S. News, May 3, 1957. "Modern Republicanism is a I version of the New and Fair 1 Deals but administered by con- servatives, and that is a very big 1 difference indeed." Stewart Alsop, Feb. 17, 1957. "Such Modern Republicanism as Nebraskans have seen is the Benson farm program and after six years of it taxes are getting mighty hard to pay." Lincoln Star, April 16, 1957. o Pity the poor clergyman who bought a used car and then did not have the vocabulary to run it. |