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& f • f The Chronide Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable > (Elttttan (Hbrnnith If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News T~ == Volume LI 11 Clinton, S. C. # Thursday, July 17, 1952 Number 29 IKE ADD NIXON TEAM UP TO HEAL BREACH IN REPUBLICAN RANKS, HEAD PARTY TICKET Special To The Chronicle. Chicago, July 14. — Shouting, wrangling, fighting in dead ear nest both behind the scenes and on the storm-swept floor of Chicago’s International Ampitheatre, the Re publican party last Friday not on ly nominated Dwight D. Eisenhow er as its presidential candidate but handed him the generalship of a battle that promises to be as rig orous as any he has ever waged. For to him goes top leadership now in the immediately necessary task of unifying and solidifying the party itself which was rent and torn in the furious factional strug gle last week between the Taft and Eisenhower forces. The man ‘whom General Eisen hower and his cohorts picked for the vice - presidential nomination waS young, liberal Sen. Richard M. Nixon of California, only 39 years old, —. As the only name proposed to the convention for the vice-presi dential post, Nixon was given the nomination by the noisy acclama tion of the delegates, who thus completed their quadrennial task for the party. Nixon, who previously had been rumored to be the Eisenhower choice, first attained national prominence as a member of the house un-American activities com mittee in the forefront of the in vestigation and conviction of Alger Hiss on a perjury charge. The Eisenhower - Nixon ticket represents the internationally - minded segment of the Republican party, and its selection by the con vention can be regarded in no oth er way than as a definite repudia tion of the old-line GOP thinking. control of the hall. From Alabama's 14 votes, down through the list of states and ter ritories to the Virgin Islands’ one vote, the call droned on, with Eis enhower piling up the steady lead that had been consistently his during the balloting on previous issues during the week. The delegations held the lines that were pretty much expected of them. Illinois, representing the in tensely partisan Taft-Dirksen line of thought, cast 59 votes for Taft, I for Eisenhower. To each of its oprn California handed its TO votes in a block to Gov. Earl Warren. Michigan went 35 for Eisenhower, II for Taft. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, was given a minor ovation xvhen he announced his state’s vote —a . massive 92 for Eisenhower, 4 for Taft. The dogged Ohio delega tion was giyen a .hand also when Chairman Sen. John Bricker deliv ered all 56 votes for Taft. As the call went on, Eisenhow er’s lead grew steadily, but never theless it was apparent as the bal loting drew to a close that he w’ould not have enough for the simple majority of 604 needed to secure the nomination. * When the roll call reached the Virgin Islands and the final vote was cast the totals stood at 595 for Eisenhower, 462 for Senator Taft. It was at that point that the spokesman for the Minnesota dele gation sought and received recog nition from Sen. Joseph Martin, •permanent chairman of the con vention. During the regular balloting Minnesota had cast 9 votes for Eisenhower and 19 for its favorite son, Harold Stassen. Now. at this moment, the delegates sat in shock - tney | knew would take place. “Mh Chairman, Minnesota wish- taken place during the preceding four or five days virtually elimi nated any possibility of a policy struggle on the convention floor. The i compromise civil rights plank, as adopted, deplored racial bigotry and religious prejudice, but did not go so far as to put teeth into the denunciation by openly advocating a fair employment practices law. Both Taft and Eisenhower joined in approving the foreign policy section of the plaftorm which con sisted to a great extent of an ex coriation of the policies practiced by the present Demrocratic ad ministration. The Republicans pledged an end to the waste, spending and cor ruption with which they have re peatedly charged the Democrats. “By the Administration’s ap peasement of Communism at home and abroad it has permitted Com munists and their fellow travelers to Serve in many key agencies and In infiltrate our American life,” the plaftorm stated. Then, showing the reverse side of the “coin of patriotic American ism,” the platform claimed that “TheFe are no Communists in the Republican party,’ ’and that a Re publican president will appoint only ‘ persons of unquestioned loy alty,” will overhaul federal loyalty and security programs in coopera tion with congress, and will coordi nate all intelligence services. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLI "Th* Paper Everybody Reads'* DR. L. B. MARION NATUROPATH Res. Phone 939 500 South Broad St. Dr. Felder Smith Optometrist Laurens, S. C. 126 EAST MAIN STREET Berth Side PebUe Square HOURS POE m EXAMINATIONS! *66 «e 5*6 Wednesdays 6:66 te 12:26 Phone 794 The problem of how to achieve &ZS' oITcffMiffStr “MEKUndii*- of wMI oak wreath, nagged at the minds of S2p even’as ^ f U l ro^eMion opened on July 7j f ° ^ m d At least partly as a result of that The ]9 v ' invoIved in lhe “Minnesota Shift,” from Stassen to Eisenhower were enough to give the general a total of 614, 10 mor' than the majority required for nomination. Actually, the speed with which the switch occurred caused the actual fact of Eisenhower’s nomi nation to appear somewhat anti- climactic. The delegates cheered only briefly and then sat down to circumstance, this was a conven tion of crises and climaxes, each succeeding one rising on a more violent wave of feeling. It was a convention, too, of hilarity and heartbreak thinly veiled behind the verbal curtain raised by twenty-odd speakers with their oratorical soul-searching. It was a convention qf surprises, cuhnirufting early Friday after noon with a shocker that almost, , t literally stupefied the delegates for 1 ^ - t was a wonderful we ek for --ral minutes. , the Republicans, who were treated Ttus ‘ h J ‘.? l r‘V '‘^ <0 the rare phenomenon of seeing Minnesota Shift ‘he one l"ne.| the leaders of their tactically brilliant maneuver tnat|_._ i ;4U *?_ 4l _„ gave the nomination to Eisenhower on the first ballot. There had been a certain amount party within the space of a few days and were regaled at every point with speeches criticizing the pemocratic administration and promising a sure GOP victory in November. One of the high points of the few persons in attendance seemed to be able to take it completely seriously. But the tenseness was almost a palpable thing as the harsh gran deur that always accompanies the clarion roll call of the states took Dr. W. W. Adams VETERINARIAN 614 Musgrove Street Clinton, S. C. Phones: Office 958 Residence 991-W of speculation on Thursday and in the morning hours of Friday be fore the roll call to the effect that it was possible for the nod to go u as expected wa3 th . to Ike the first tune around, but, ktynole addr ,, ss bv G ,. n . Douglas MacArthur, the old soldier of the Old Guard, whose speech was conceived largely in terms of de nunciation of the Truman adminis tration Appearing as he did on the plat form only a few hours after the initial roil call defeat of the Taft forces Mondav afternoon on the so- called Fair Play amendment, Mac Arthur, who represented the Taft point of view, lost a little of his usual effectiveness in teh face of the trend to Eisenhower which al ready had begun to grip the dele- | gates. Still, he received a thunderous ovation when he made his appear ance in the hall, and was solidly cheered at points throughout his address when he lashed out at the administration for fostering “a for eign policy as tragically in error as its domestic policy” and, with reference to Korea, for entering a war “without the will to win it.” Yet, even MacArthur’s reception paled a little in comparison with the roof-raising volume of ap plause and cheers that the conven tion accorded to ex-Prcsident Her bert Hoover at the Tuesday eve ning session. Calm, dignified, supported by long years of political experience and an innate sense of realism, the old statesman was interrupted by shouts of “No, no,” when he said, “fYom the inexorable course of na ture, this is likely to be the last time I shall attend your conven tions. He, too, attacked the Democratic administration’s foreign and do mestic policies and referred to “the drip, drip, drip from dishonor in high places ” The rafters shook when he reached the climax of his address with, “I am not ashamed to say that our first duty is to de fend the United States . . . I do not propost that we retreat intu our shell like a turtle. I do pro pose the deadly reprisal strategy of a rattlesnake.” With most of the speeches out of tae way, the convention briefly •took up the matter of its platform, approving it so swiftly as to seem almost casual in its attitude. Actually, the maneuvering to avoid a fight on the foreign |>olicy and civil rights planks that had MORRISON FURNITURE COMPANY 6IVES YOU THIS ASrRa jV JUfT 2 flMPU THIN6K FOR YOU TO DO: FIRST. ADD TO THE LIST BELOW ANY FOOD! SUITABLE FOR FREEZING: SECOND, COMPUTE IN 25 WORDS OR LESS THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE: * D SLAu-Aa oj* yh*ta/TO UPRIGHT FOOD V} I -- i ! lAV ^ v V < ;* St. \ ■5- w. 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