| Show HOME TOWN REPORTER GOP charse charge of polities politics termed evasive tact tactics acs ics apologists for the soth congress including herbert brownell jr governor deweys deleys campaign manager are attempting to sneak behind a tree by saying the republican leadership of this congress in special session or otherwise Is in no way bound by the pledges of the republican platform adopted at philadelphia a few short weeks ago this 1948 republican platform they say was adopted tor for the congress not the r and therefore the GOP leadership is not bound by its pledges all of which of course ar ix is a vague evasive technicality since leadership in the congress will be virtually the same as the BROWNELL congress unless there is a democratic landslide come november senator taft senate majority leader senator wherry senate whip speaker joe martin in the house majority leader charlie halleck and congressmen knutson taber and allen alien all will be in their places in the congress so if they are arc not morally bound by the 1948 platform pledges four weeks after the platform was adopted there is certainly no reason to believe they will be bound by those same pledges six months from now charges by the GOP leadership that the call for the special session is pure politics on the part of president truman and the attempts to evade the issues on needed legislation are in the opinion of this reporter slightly ridiculous when it is remembered that prior to adjournment journ ment both senator taft and speaker martin spoke of the possibility lity of reconvening congress to finish their job after the conventions were over fallacy in motive gov J strom thur thurmond mond of south carolina is one of the more progressive southern governors and one of the outstanding heroes of world war 11 and his selection as a presidential candidate against president truman likely was the best selection that could have been made out of the south but he comes from a state where only recently a federal judge said from the bench it is a disgrace and a shame when you have to come into court and ask a judge to tell you you are an american the statement was made in connection tion with a court order to the democratic party in south carolina to keep its books open for the he registration of all voters including negroes the fallacy of the attitude of the southern politicians in the opinion of this reporter is that they are using states rights against which there is no quarrel to perpetuate human wrongs odds against him on the surface president truman seems to have insurmountable odds to overcome in his bid for his first full term he has governor dewey and the GOP in opposition he has henry wallace and the third party but the fortune poll indicates that the third party will draw equally from the republican and democratic parties now he has governor thurmond and his rebel southerners against him but southern democrats in house and senate have not been helpful to the truman program As a matter of fact they helped ahe republicans override mr Tr vetoes and some of them voted with the republicans as often as with the democratic minority so the president stands to lose nothing there As we have pointed out in this column before in the last half century except in 1916 when the democratic party has won an election its electoral vote has been big enough to win without the solid south and when the republicans have won defection of the south would have made no difference on top of this if the southern revolt holds out to election day it will be the first time democrats in the south have had a choice between two candidates and this reporter is not at all sure but that president truman will capture a majority of these southern states despite the rebellious leaders effective control just by way of contrast canada has a peacetime peace time price control law and an effective rent control law so canadian housewives pay only around 53 cents a pound for sirloin steak 14 cents a quart for milk 70 cents a pound for butter and 29 cents a pound for hamburger or about 25 per cent less than american housewives pay ay canada has a gradual and planned policy of price adjustment and decontrol |
