| Show GRASSROOTS GOP Again Faced With Lack of Positive Platform By Wright A. Patterson f REPUBLICANS have named THE their time and July at The especially important part of the next presidential campaign I believe the most important is the party the stating in clear and definite terms what the party proposes to the American In many It is of more importance at this time than the selection of That program must be of a positive No longer ran the party appeal successfully to the voters by merely with the policies and actions of the Mb it the voters want to know Is what the Republicans will do If are to They want the that there will e a definite turn to the that our free enterprise system will be the continuous growth In the bureaucratic army will nd the numbers of that army be They want to be that we will our war but will for a time at the unnecessary home projects that we can get along and by so relieve the taxpayer of a considerable portion of the load he has been Such are some of the definite the voters are looking They will not be satisfied with only condemnation for the or any administration They want to know what the Republicans propose for the In 44 and 48 the Republicans had an opportunity to They muffed all three chances by not proposing a definite and sounding hard on that This 1952 not only but the best of four opportunities to provided Republican leadership can and will produce a positive platform which the voters will This is no time or place for The time Is for a definite and constructive program that will put America back on the prosperity maintain our economy and outlaw Can the Republican leadership draft such a program and express it In and easily understandable Picking the candidates is the next tant step yet to be Should a popular hero such as either Eisenhower or MacArthur be the candidate of either he would be virtually assured of MacArthur removed himself from consideration by the statement he made in San a statement I am sure he Eisenhower's political affiliations are not definitely and he could be a candidate of either It is hardly probable that he would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination If the President wishes to be the candidate of his Of the strictly leaders Taft seems to have the most He demonstrated in Ohio that he is a vote getter and that the leaders of organized labor cannot dictate the politics of that Aside from some one of our military Taft seems to be the logical Republican and he would on a turn-to-the-right platform and back such a plank to the But unless Republican leaders can get together and formulate a Republican platform that has an appeal to a majority of the voters and offer such a program as a promise ot the party to the 1952 will possibly be but another of the muffed It will not be long now before politics will drive Korea off the front The best time to go fishing will be August and September of next Then you can escape political How much of the 52 per cent of the vote the President polled four years can he regain before the first Tuesday In Wars are costly Even after the shooting the of pensions is to be reckoned and they go on The adoption of that last constitutional insures us against Roosevelt performance as a continuous It is now two terms and out |
