The Augusta Courier

Jack Seeks To Make Martyr, Glamorize Himself On The Catholic "Issue"

THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR, the leading daily paper published in Indianapolis, Indiana, in an editorial on August 14, 1960, said:

"YOU CAN'T BUY THE WHITE HOUSE".

This editorial attempts to expose Senator John F. Kennedy's effort to buy the White House and declares that it can't be done.

Here is the editorial in full:

Former President Truman is a practical and seasoned politician. Even he, however, found it difficult to stomach the ruthless political steamroller, greased by the Kennedy millions, which rolled over the Democratic convention at Los Angeles.

Never before has an American family set out deliberately to buy the White House. The Kennedy millions - mostly made from whisky - along with the organized razzle-dazzle of the whole Kennedy clan, put together the most effective and unprincipled political bandwagon since the days when "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, Jack Kennedy's grandfather, ruled the political roost in Boston, Mass.

Speaking at the University of Virginia during the primary campaign, Mr. Truman, a former Democratic President referring to a would-be Democratic President, spoke for the whole nation when, as it was reported, he declared,

"I have no objection to Senator Kennedy's Pope, but I do object to Senator Kennedy's pop, Pop Joe Kennedy, who is trying to buy the White House for his little boy."

It was Senator Kennedy himself who injected the religious issue into this campaign. Sensible Americans had hoped it would not become a factor, but Kennedy has deliberately exploited his religion. In speeches in Wisconsin, in West Virginia, at the convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington last April, in his

acceptance speech at Los Angeles and in numerous interviews since the convention, he has appealed to voters not to persecute him because he is a Catholic.

Nobody has persecuted Jack Kennedy, and it is unlikely that anybody will.

Why won't Jack Kennedy be frank enough to admit publicly that it was his Catholic friends who gave him the nomination? The five big states were for Kennedy. Mayor Wagner, who led the New York delegation, is a Catholic.

Governor Lawrence of Pennsylvania, who turned Pennsylvania over to Kennedy, is a Catholic. Governor Mike DiSalle of Ohio, who gave the entire Ohio delegation to Kennedy, is a Catholic. Mayor Daley of Chicago, who controlled the Illinois delegation, is a Catholic. Governor Pat Brown of California, another Kennedy state, is a Catholic. The delegations from these five states, led by Catholics, put over Kennedy's nomination.

Why should Jack Kennedy be ungrateful and hypocritical? These influential politicians had a perfect right to be for Kennedy if they so chose. The very fact that these men have been elected to high office shows that the American people do not let religion influence their political voting. The people in these five states believed that these candidates were good men and they voted for them regardless of religious beliefs.

When they were running for office these men did not go around whimpering that they were being persecuted.

The truth is, Jack Kennedy has deliberately set out to make a martyr of himself on the Catholic issue in order to get sympathy and to glamorize himself as a candidate.

Jack Kennedy has been shouting and crying persecution, but if anybody else says anything about his religion, then that is "bigotry."

Well, we think it is bigotry to inject religion into this campaign. It has nothing whatever to do with the real issues on which the American people are going to vote. Anybody who uses religion either as a shield or a sword is guilty of bigotry, and the greatest offender in this nation at the present time is Jack Kennedy himself. He never misses a chance to keep the issue alive. It can't be kept out if Jack Kennedy himself is going to bring it up every time he makes a speech. Such hypocrisy seldom has been practiced in American politics.

We are not opposed to Jack Kennedy because he is a Catholic. We do not believe many Americans will be opposed to him on that basis. Certainly nobody has ever accused this newspaper of being anti-Catholic.

We are opposed to him because he is completely lacking in administrative experience to assume the responsibilities of the presidency in the handling of foreign policy and domestic issues.

We are opposed to him because he never has given any indication of deep-down convictions about American freedoms or the rights of individual citizens.

We are opposed to him because as a senator from Massachusetts he has represented minority pressure groups instead of the people of his state.

the darling of the AFL-CIO (and the ADA, who boast that he always voted for them 100 per cent (his record proves he has). No man is under such complete obligation to left-wing pressure groups should be elected President of the United States.

We are especially opposed to him because he allowed Walter Reuther his man Friday, Chester Bowles to write the radical Democratic platform and then he accepted it without a protest. This platform was a socialist manifesto and the most radical form ever presented to the American people by either of the two great parties. Walter Reuther is an avowed socialist, but that doesn't seem to make any difference to Jack Kennedy.

And last, we are opposed to the White House put up for sale. It is obvious that the Kennedy family intends to get into the White House, no matter what it costs or no matter what concessions have been made in order to do it. Pop Joe Kennedy will continue to pour out his millions in an all-out attempt to "put little boy in the White House."

We don't believe the American people will buy. We believe the American people in overwhelming numbers will tell the Kennedys and the world that the White House is not for sale.

The Plan For The U. S.

"First we will take Eastern Europe, the masses of Asia, then we will encircle the United States. which will be the last attack. It will fall like an over-ripe bastion of capitalism. We will not have to attack it; it will fall into our own hands."