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Show ABOVE THE By LYTLE HULL PTHE PRESIDENTIAL election of 1948 only 49 percent of the . eligible voters went to the poll. The principal reason for this selfish conduct wis the theory that Dewey was "sure to be elected". So why bother! But times have changed. And howl Four years of utter Incompetence, Incom-petence, of graft and greed and scandal, and of a foreign "policy" which has carried us literally to within sight of national ruin, have even sobered the minds of the boys who have wallowed in the seemingly seeming-ly endless flow of gravy from Truman's Tru-man's welfare pot. The farmers voted the welfare state In 1048. But all those promises prom-ises didn't pan out and were never nev-er meant to. You only fool a farmer once with the same line of baloney. Union labor was supposed to go all-out for Truman In '48 because of the Taft-Hartley Law, which they had been told was anti-labor. But millions of members knew the truth about that law, and voted against Truman. Millions more will do so in November and because of that law. Many ardent church members voted for Honest Harry In 1948. Scandals upon scandals In his administration ad-ministration have awakened them. .But in the opinion of this column col-umn the great Republican majority in November is coming from the 51 per cent of slap-happy citizens who j didn't take the trouble to vote in 1948 but who are now frightened and with cause at the ghastly consequences con-sequences of their former avoidance of duty. Our country has been placed in grave danger through a seemingly utter ignorance of money and finance, fi-nance, and because of a foreign . policy which at times has seemed . almost suicidal. In 1948 we did not face the same dangers that we do I today. But the last four years of the Fair Deal administration have J changed the entire picture. We are t frightened if we have any brains j and fear Is going to bring out a lot ' . of votes! ' |