Show v ili As' As f f fr i kS EGL Sees It I S fig g n t entertained national r conventions of ot the Republicans h Elks and the Democrats in that j er r Philadelphia was apathetic and rd the impending rites of a 9 e cr er r organization calling itself itsel the thel l party held for tor the pure purie pur- pur ie e of ot ratifying the nominations JHenry Henry Wallace and Glen Taylor s was no worse than fair bese beise beaise be- be aise ise se it was understood od by all concerned con can con 1 that this was not a serious convention of ot a legitimate par party ty but strictly an occasion occasion oct oc oc- t casion for Communist Communist Com Corn 1 monist propaganda i It was to be a at ratification on g gala gal a 1 a t t. t rather than a nominating nom nom- nom nom- 1 4 mating convention t Y d because Wallace and Taylor already become the candidates in many manyI I hither higher and yon across the itry try and had collected an armour kitty The Progressive party was the Communist party of jf if 1 1248 98 with an uncertain fringe f if political neurotics privateers Find nd d renegades from the Demotic Demo- Demo r ratio tic household Except in the fact tact that it was a aid aid id jd party convention and had Ib together most of ot the parades paras para para- e des s s from rom the European compounds ithe the City of New York this one in common with the conof con- con ve of ot the nuts and bolts Inland in land veland in 1936 The fakery of ot this Fakery operation meaning meanings Is s the insulting dis dis- arent h honesty nesty so o apparent apparent pp ent even to the theLmon theman I mon man was quite different n the relatively innocent mockery I th e standard Republican and meetings 1 Everybody knew that President man was to tobe be the nominee bee bethe be- be e the Democratic congress I ned ed and the formula was so cut d dl df dried that he was brought up the he the hall and stood hi m a corner comer ot of sight long before they could wd ld the details through the mic- mic jhones ones BUT IN THIS CASE I 5 ALLACE AND AlID TAYLOR PICKED AND THE KREM- KREM I N TOOK THEM UP AND ALL ALLE E AVOWED COMMUNISTS TD THE MORE NOTORIOUS HAVE ACCLAIMED iM EM M. M Even ven n the little parasitic private ty of ot old New Deal bureau- bureau I itS ts known as the Americans for Action has denounced Wallace party as a Communist Wit lIlt alt i That Is going pretty far be- be case anse useIn in fn the big days of Frank- Frank n D. D the bosses of ot the A. A D. D A. A ere cere peered at and eaves- eaves by congressional in- in in- in who reported back backI I I that most of ot them were II Fellow Travelers if not iI of the most pernicious kind rh fact that the Americans for i Action could horn into h the Truman and Wallace con- con and get heard on l ps s calculated to make publicity power nuisance power tends to prove provet t the American system of ot parties designed to foster rackets ext thing anyone knows like Iffs called To-called called so-called American Labor party New York the A. A D D. D A A. A will be beto beto to make petty deals with ith major majores tie ties es and some of its displaced will be back in Wash- Wash ton 1 n with wilh their feet on desks in t The Democrats lio o Job still have a chance chanc t MIl in of ot receiving WalI Wallace's Wallaces Wallaces Wallace's Wal Wal- I I 1 laces lace's ace s vo vote t. t e in some respect last minute last minute I I r in n but It seems unlikely that Truman would promise him a ar 1 r keepers keeper's job in trade HE HEm m DOESN'T MATTER y the time the Democrats and pub publicans Ii can s have got through I sing in the big campaign they r I have wooed away all the roes oes of ot the northern cities exe ext ex- ex t the e holding card Communists lare are few tew in number anyway any align al al- gh ign loud in the voice The for- for ri ers rs in hi New York will stick with I ilace ace because his letter to Stalin ie e time ago and his platform as Baled in his speeches are a indorsement of the Russian against the United States fe he gritty old canopy of ot steel ands and s which overhangs Broad street wak at the Stratford Bellevue adorned with whirling I if ps mounted on broomsticks read- read rt re s pee ti v e ly PEACE and FREE F R E E As they whirled they creata creat- creat a dizzying effect perhaps not by some saboteur in m the ks s. s Around the rim of at the can- can were the names of ot Wallace and andlor andlor lor for in m blue on white stripes and ach Ch end of the hotel at the sec sec- story story level hung limp e e. e banners white letters on blue convention of at the ProU Pro- Pro III U sive party These silent portents of alien alieni i raised no A Rf IMon IJ on n in iA the citizens weary of ofis 1 is alarms promises nd hot weather r ib on onet resPect as always the PI aceites excelled That was wal in ini ina i a r press handouts I I af f j il ii |