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General Ike "Whistle-Stops" In Launching 12-State Campaign Tour

BY ROBERT E. CLARK

ABOARD THE EISENHOWER SPECIAL - (INS) - Gen. Dwight Eisenhower whistle-stopped into the middle West Monday blasting at the "mess in Washington" and chiding Gov. Adlai Stevenson for his "amused" approach to the nation's troubles.

The Republican presidential nominee kept up a steady fire at corruption in government and at his Democratic rival as he rolled thru Indiana and into Illinois on the first day of his first "whistle-stop" tour.

Eisenhower did not mention Stevenson by name, but with obvious reference to the Democratic presidential nominee's light-handed campaigning he told train-stop audiences he sees nothing "funny" in the critical problems confronting the nation.

At Indiana Harbor, Ind., he said: "Is it amusing that we have stumbled into a war in Korea; that we have already lost in casualties 117,000 of our Americans, killed and wounded; it is amusing that the war seems to be no closer to a solution than ever; that we have no real plan for stopping it?

"Are those things funny? Not in my book."

The GOP Presidential candidate was handed a broom at Chicago's Englewood station, where he left his train to motor to Joliet, Ill. In accepting the broom, General Eisenhower commented:

"I'll need a broom much larger than this to clean up the mess in Washington."

Turning his attention to Communists-in-Government charges, Gen. Eisenhower pledged that if he is elected Communists "will be found out and will be kept out of Government before they get into it."

He recalled that during his time as NATO commander, the communists "called me a warmonger -and everything vile that could have been said about me." and he added: "I'm proud of every vile thing they have said."

The talk was the first of many to be made by the General on a 12-day tour through a dozen important midwest and southern "fringe" states.

A short while later at Warsaw Ind., Ike told a crowd of 2,500: "We have one job in the world today - to promote and maintain peace.

He said he had planned to talk about "corruption and high taxes," but decided - because he was reminded of the "war-torn, destroyed" city of Warsaw, Poland -- to speak of the job of achieving world peace.

At Warsaw, he introduced his wife for the first time on the tour She was cheered heartily.

And in Plymouth, Ind., the General told 3,000 persons clustered around the rear platform of the

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18-car special train:

"I shall have one guide by which I shall make decisions, and that is: What is good for the United States?'

He emphasized that all segments of society must" be prosperous for the nation to have true prosperity.

Ike attacked high taxes and pledged that if elected he would fight to lower government spending.

A staff of 150 aides and newsmen are aboard the special. Also along on the trip across Indiana were the Hoosier State's two Republican Senators, Jenner and Capehart.

In addition to Indiana, the gleaming, newly-painted train will swing through Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia.

The General plans to make 70 whistle stops and eight major appearances en route.

There are 158 electoral votes in the twelve states. Eight of the states went Democratic by comfortable margins in 1948, but the other four were decided by narrow votes.