No Charity

Harry Truman took up on Labor Day 1952 where he had left off in November 1948. After "giving 'em hell" at whistle-stop appearances in Pittsburgh and Crestline, Ohio, the President addressed a rally of C.I.O.-A.F.L. members in Milwaukee.

After paying warmer-than-dutiful tribute to Adlai Stevenson and John Sparkman, Harry got right down to his favorite subject--the Republican Party. The Republicans, said he, "are campaigning on the idea that it is time for a change. But they don't . . . tell you what kind of a change they really want." Among the things that Harry said the Republicans wanted to change were: full employment, the current status of unions, social security, public housing, rural electrification and "our policy of stabilizing prices."

"You know," said Truman, "if the Republicans don't wake up and reform it wouldn't surprise me if they never did win another national election." Some people, he went on, go around saying that the voters ought to support the Republicans this year lest the two-party system disappear. "This is an appeal to charity . . ." declared Harry Truman. "No party deserves to be kept alive just out of kindheartedness or charity."

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