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Show . lGLEir;;' -Scm It II g 'et brook Pegler 111 AVING entertained national A 1 conventions of the Republicans, the Elks and the Democrats in that order, Philadelphia was apathetic toward the impending rites of a queer organization calling itself the Progressive party, held for the pur-pose pur-pose of ratifying the nominations of Henry Wallace and Glen Taylor. This was no worse than fair because be-cause it was understood by all con- cprnprl that thia ?: S -Cs.-,.v..:4l'',. was not a serious convention of a legitimate party but strictly an occasion oc-casion for Communist Com-munist propaganda. It was to be a ratification gala rather than a nominating nom-inating convention because Wallace and Tavlor nlrpnrlv had become the candidates In many speeches hither and yon across the country and had collected an enormous kitty. The Progressive party was actually the Communist party of 1918 with an uncertain fringe of political neurotics, privateers and renegades from the Democratic Demo-cratic household. Except in the fact that it was a third party convention and had brought together most of the parasites para-sites from the European compounds of the City of New York, this one had little in common with the conclave con-clave of the nuts and bolts in Cleveland in 1938. p , The fakery of this takery operation, meaning It the insulting dis- Apparent honestv 80 aPPar-ent aPPar-ent even to the common man, was quite different than the relatively innocent mockery of the standard Republican and Democratic meetings. Everybody knew that President Truman was to be the nominee before be-fore the Democratic congress opened and the formula was so cut and dried that he was brought up to the hall and stood in a corner out of sight long before they could crowd the details through the microphones. mic-rophones. BUT IN THIS CASE, WALLACE AND TAYLOR PICKED THEMSELVES AND THE KREMLIN KREM-LIN TOOK THEM UP AND ALL THE AVOWED COMMUNISTS AND THE MORE NOTORIOUS SUSPECTS HAVE ACCLAIMED THEM. Even the little parasitic private society of old New Deal bureaucrats bureau-crats known as the Americans for Democratic Action has denounced the Wallace party as a Communist front. That Is going pretty far, because be-cause In the big days of Franklin Frank-lin D., the bosses of the A. D. A. were peered at and eavesdropped eaves-dropped by congressional Investigators In-vestigators who reported back odiWally that most of them were Fellow Travelers if not Bolshevik! Bolshe-vik! of the most pernicious kind. The fact that the Americans for Democratic Action could horn into both the Truman and Wallace con- venlions and get heard on propositions proposi-tions calculated to make publicity and nuisance-power tends to prove that the American system of partioj was designed to foster rackets. Next thing anyone knows, like the so-called American Labor party in New York, the A. D. A. will be able to make petty deals' with major parties and some of its displaced bureaucrats will be back in Washington Wash-ington with their feet on desks again. M . , The Democrats No Job gtul have a Chance in of receiving Wal- Prospect ,acc's vote in som last-minute proposition, propo-sition, but it seems unlikely that Mr. Truman would promise him a dtorkocper's Job in trade. HE JUST DOESN'T MATTER. By the time the Democrats and Republicans have got through promising in the big campaign they will have wooed away all the Negroes of the northern cities except ex-cept the card-holding Communists who are few in number anyway, Although Al-though loud in the voice. The foreigners for-eigners in New York will stick with Wallace because his letter to Stalin some time ago and his platform ai revealed In his speeches are a hearty Indorsement of the Russian cold war against the United States. The gritty old canopy of steel and glass which overhangs Broad street sidewalk at the Bellevue-Stratford was quitcly adorned with whirling signs mounted on broomsticks reading read-ing respectively "PEACE," "ABUNDANCE" and "FREEDOM." "FREE-DOM." As they whirled they created creat-ed a dizzying effect, perhaps not unforeseen by some saboteur in the ranks. Arcund the rim of the canopy can-opy were the names of Wallace and Taylor In blue on white stripes and at each end of the hotel at the second sec-ond story level hung limp, Inoffensive Inoffen-sive banners, white letters on blue, "Founding convention of the Progressive Pro-gressive party." These silent portents of alien mischief raised no apprehension apprehen-sion In the cltitcns, weary of conventions, alarms, promises and hot weather. In ont respect, as always, the Wallaceitei excelled. That was tn their press handout, j |