The Nome Nugget

Stevenson Blasts Administration: Sees Demo Victory on November 2

(By the Associated Press)

Vice President Nixon and Adlai Stevenson crossed verbal swords Sunday in the wake of Stevenson's scathing criticism of the Eisenhower Administration in a speech Saturday night.

Arriving in Los Angeles shortly after Stevenson left the city for Phoenix, Ariz., the Vice President said the Democrats' 1952 presidential candidate "like other Democratic leaders is offering destructive criticism apparently because they have no constructive suggestions to offer."

Told of this later at Albuquerque, N.M., Stevenson retorted: "Mr. Nixon's remarks remind me of a wonderful and classic remark a woman juror made when she turned to a neighbor and said 'I don't want to listen to the evidence. I like to make up my own mind.' "

Stevenson told a news conference he has detected "a tremendous swing" toward the Democratic Party throughout the nation. He predicted the Democrats would "win control of the House by 30 or 40 seats." He said he also thinks the Democrats will win control of the Senate.

"Stevenson in part: "The harsh fact is that in 20 months of bluff and bluster, confusion and contradiction, we have lost influence and friends faster than at any time since Warren Harding and the Republican repudiation of international cooperation after the first world war."

Stevenson said the real issue in this election "is whether Congress will function more effectively under a divided, quarrelsome Republican regime than it will under the proved leadership of the Democratic Party."