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Show W Tf WESTBROOK PEGLER The Peoole Can Be Wrona THERE has been an ignoble note of humility in most of the stated comment of the American press on the recent solemn referendum. The editorial remarks of the Hearst publications pub-lications are an honorable exception, excep-tion, and although Mr. Howard of the Scripps-Howard group seemed to be cheering the conqueror, I listened lis-tened closely and what he really said was something about suckers reproducing their kind. There may be others who have stood to their convictions, but on . . acter and broadened his education and wisdom. Obviously, they have done no such thing. They couldn't, and only poltroons pol-troons or sordid mercenaries who hope to propitiate the President and escape punishment for acting the part of Americans in campaign time would entertain this absurd proposition. propo-sition. Mr. Truman Is the same man today that he was the day before be-fore election, a more ingratiating ingratiat-ing man by far than Governor Dewey, a flghter who doesn't care If he does tear his pants and get his glasses busted and doesn't mind rolling among the gobboons; a man so truly of the people that he figures out what would fool him if he were In their place and uses It to fool them. The idea that a man who so recently re-cently would play a pliant part in the inner villainies of an urban machine, ma-chine, which will live in history as a great corruption, could suddenly become a spiritual crusader for the risbt cannot bear close lnsnetlon. i the whole there has been a tendency to throw in with President Pres-ident Truman with a frightened and trite observation that the people have spoken and that the peoplecan'tbe wrong. There Is a distinct Impression that these election prrrrn reui. o, un.u-rtOLtK un.u-rtOLtK lating Mr. Truman's spirits and self-confidence, have also enlarged and fortified his char- |
