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Show Demo Chairman Comments On 1960 Party Platform Democrats at their 1960 convention con-vention will write the strongest statement on civil rights ever included in a party platform, Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler recently said. "I'm giving notice in advance to let everyone know what's going go-ing to happen in the 1960 convention," con-vention," Butler said. The national chairman said he though the south would go along wtih the plank. He cited what he described as a noticeable change in the southern attitude toward human rights. "Southerners are being increasingly in-creasingly influenced by judicial opinion against their point of view," Butler added. He also said the South is afraid its industrial in-dustrial potential will be threatened threat-ened if it maintains its segregated segre-gated schools. Butler said he does not consider con-sider Adlai E. Stevenson a candidate can-didate for the 1960 presidential nomination "on the basis of what Stevenson has said." "No man can be seriously considered con-sidered for the nomination in 1960 unless he can submit his name in one of two preferential primaries,"Butler declared. "Mr. Stevenson undoubtedly will refrain re-frain from entering preferential primaries on the basis of being a two-time loser." Butler declined to discuss the controversy over the selection of Los Angeles for the Democratic National Convention next year. He did say, however, the recommendation recom-mendation of the site selection committee never has been upset by the Democratic National committee. com-mittee. In regard to the tentative selection se-lection of Los Angeles as the site for the 1960 Democratic convention, and Chicago's continuing con-tinuing efforts to get the convention, con-vention, Butler indicated there would be no change in the selection se-lection of the west coast city. He declined to be drawn into any controversy with Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley over the site selection. But he said that never in history has the party's national committee reversed a decision of the site selection committee. com-mittee. Switching to the Republicans, Butler said he "did not think" there was much chance for any one other than Vice President Richard M. Nixon or New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller to get the GOP presidential nomination nomi-nation in 1960. Meanwhile the national board of Americans for Democratic Ac-toin Ac-toin described as "morbid and defeatist" documents President Eisenhower's state of the union and budget messages. The board said in a statement that Eisenhower had put penny- wise economy ahead of vital American priority in the cold war, and thus had "given warm j comfort to the Kremlin and despair de-spair to our allies. The ADA describes itself as a nonpartisan organization fighting fight-ing for liberal causes. It has supported sup-ported only Democratic presidential presi-dential candidates, however. The board said Eisenhower's program will no more meet the inflationary threat than it meets national needs. The forces of inflation, in-flation, it said, will continue to push prices up as long as the administration's ad-ministration's policies "handcuff our national economy." The ADA leaders called on the "liberal. (Democratic) rnajori:. ties" in Congress to "accept the responsibility for meaningful legislative action which both the White House and Congressional leaders have so far evaded." |