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Show COMMITTEE FOR INDEPENDENT POLITICAL ACTION Opening a vigorous, broadside attack on old political parties, a new, permanent and independ-arit independ-arit national political movement was activated in Richmond, Va., around forces which supported T. Coleman Andrews for President Presi-dent and Thomas H. Werdel for Vice President in 1956. Pledged to restore and preserve pre-serve all Constitutional rights I for States and the people, the new movement designated itself J. Bracken Lee, former governor gov-ernor of Utah, who attained national recogniiion in his personal fight againsl foreign aid, th; federal income tax, and ''wasteful 'federal aid'," has been named chairman of the new national organization. the Interim Committee for Independent In-dependent Political Action. Its members condemned both major ma-jor existing political parties as "in reality but one, left-wing party determined to establish an all-powerful central government govern-ment in Washington." They announced an-nounced the Interim Committee program in a basic Declaration of Principles; " We intend to create a living, vigorous movement to which all those Americans now robbed of political haven - Republicans, Democrats and others - can repair. re-pair. If in its growing strength this movement should ultimately become a new political party, soi be it.'' The Interim Committee leaders lead-ers - members o'f the Executive ;ommittee of the National Committee Com-mittee blacking Andrews and Werdel in the presidential cam-, paign last Fall - pledged immediate immedi-ate state-by-state organization. They announced that candidates for President and Vice President will be nominated in 1960, and candidates foir Congress who will fight to restore and preserve the Constitutional rights will be actively act-ively supported. Members of the Executive Committ?" who created the new movement and adopted its Declaration De-claration of Principles, were the following The Co-chairmen of the An-drews-Werdel National Committee, Commit-tee, Clarence E. Manion of South Bend, Ind., former Dean of the Notre Dame Law School and John U. Barr, New Orleans industrialist; former Governor Charles E. Edison of New Jersey; George S. Montgomery, Jr., a New York attorney; and Morgan W. Strother, a Richmond business busi-ness executive. Dean Manion was elected as chairman of the Interim Committee Com-mittee and Mr. Andrews, the Independents' 1956 standard non-voting member and designat-bearer, designat-bearer, was made an ex-officio, ed as official spokesman. The committee voted to open an Information In-formation Office in Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, and will launch a national na-tional campaign for funds. Overall Over-all objectives were laid down broadly in the Declaration of Principles. "The left-wing, socialist elements ele-ments in both of the old parties," said the Declaration, "have become be-come so arrogant that they have openly invited their colleagues who insist upon respect for the Constitution, to take a walk. They have even threatened to purge these patriots. "Such men will be urged to offer leadership and support to the Independents. "We invite and will welcome I association with all those who believe with us that the rights have been ignored and overrun by the Federal Government; who believe that the enslaving income in-come tax which the Federal Government today exacts, is outright and deliberate confiscation; confisca-tion; who believe the huge revenues reve-nues thus collected by the Federal Fed-eral Government are being recklessly reck-lessly squandered and wasted; who fear the clearly obvious policy of the old parties now in power to surrender our national sovereignty to international politicians; poli-ticians; who believe in short, that the arrogant Federal Government Gov-ernment in the U S has unconstitutionally uncon-stitutionally preempted the States' and the Peoples'e powers and rights, and is leading us to ruin. "Our movement will organize in every state. We will support candidates for Congress who subscribe sub-scribe to our objectives, and we will campaign vigorously for them. |
