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Show A Message For Ail Democrats The following remarks by Democratic National Chairman John M. liailey at the recent meeting of the ' Democratic National Committee contain a message for all Democrats. They are printed here in part. I want to say -first that we have all felt the tragic impact of the death of our late beloved President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The loss cut deeply. The nation I was shocked to its core. To many of us it was a personal shock because we knew and loved John Kennedy. He was our friend and our leader. But despite our shock and our sadness and our bereavement wre must go on. We must continue his work. We must do our share to see that his goals are fulfilled; that his dreams are realized; that his programs pro-grams are enacted. We are incredibly fortunate in having had as Vice President a man who was prepared by ability, experience and courage to step into the office of President and carry on without a loss in stride. It is already clearly evident that Lyndon Baines Johnson is a leader in his own right. It is just as evident hat he is destined to be another of a long line of great Democratic Presidents in the tradition of John Ken- ( Continued on Page Four; A Message For All Democrats (Continued from Page One) nedy, Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrov Wilson. His goals were the goals of these Presidents, his dreams were their dreams, his purpose is their purpose. But he is leading us in his way, and I might add, he has already shown that his way is effective and inspiring. The American people love him. They warm to his compassion. They share his ideals. They admire his courage, cou-rage, and they trust his judgment. The confused, partisan reaction of the Republicans is in itself a testimonial to the ability and effectiveness of President Johnson. The Republicans are hopping around like a cat on a hot tin roof. They are attempting to find some issue on which to light, and at the same time find some reasonable reason-able candidate on which to settle. Both are impossible tasks. There is no basic criticism that can be made justifiably justi-fiably against President Johnson and there is no Republican Re-publican candidate who will be acceptable to American people. The so-called candidates are putting on a puzzling performance. There is a constant stream of Republicans into Washington to announce they are not candidates. Governor Scranton of Pennsylvania is the latest. He came to Washington and called a press conference to say no. Governor Romney of Michigan did the same although al-though he did say that if someone were to hand him the nomination on a silver platter, it would be his duty ' to accept it. Up in New York Mr. Nixon says he will make any sacrifice to see that the Republicans nominate the best candidate and we all know who he means. He means the man who made a national sacrifice in 1960 and a California sacrifice in 1962. And Gov. Rockefeller is blazing away at Sen. Gold-water Gold-water and Sen. Gold water is blazing away at everything. The elections in the past year have already shown that the Democratic Party is still the party of the people and that its candidates are the leaders the people choose. We won the elections and the Republicans won the statistics. The Republican witch doctors of Research can always al-ways serve up a mumbo jumbo of how the Republicans won even though their candidates lost. So let them beat their drums while we beat their candidates. The fact is that we won the important elections in Kentucky, in Pennsylvania, in San Francisco. And as 1963 ends and 1964 begins we say to our friends of the GOP and pardon me for this Alibi and , Good Night. The Democratic National Committee has had a busy year. We have laid the groundwork for what I think will be our most effective election effort. We have been moving ahead with our registration program and the results of some of the elections last year reflect our efforts. We have been moving ahead with our assignment of speakers to carry the Administration message to the states. nOn |