Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 44, DeMotte, Jasper County, 1 October 1948 — Rep. Halleck Appears Before Ohio Audience [ARTICLE]

Rep. Halleck Appears Before Ohio Audience

Hoosier Congressman Declares G. O. P. Is Only Assurance for World Peace, Forthright Leadership Congressman Charles A. Halleck, (R), of Indiana, Majority Leader of the U. S. House of Representatives, said “the Republican Party is the only party that can and will furnish the country with forthright leadership for national unity, economic stabiliy and world peace,” in a speech delivered at a Republican Rally at Van Wert, Ohio, on Wednesday evening, September 29, 1948. “The Democrat Party under President Truman is politically and morally bankrupt,” asserted Mr. Halleck, as he pointed to the “warring factions within the Democrat Party who are advocating conflicting policies and inconsistent principles” and to the “campaign of fear, discontent and appeals to prejudices that Mr. Truman is waging.” “Not being able to unite his own party behind his leadership,” said Mr. Halleck, “President Truman certainly is not able to unite the entire country to work as one people in meeting the grave national and internatioal problems confronting us.” Referring to President Truman’s “attacks on the Congress,” Majority Leader Halleck said “Mr. Truman’s abuse of the Republican Congress is an attempt to conceal his own failures and incapacity for real leadership.” Mr. Halleck recalled that “President Truman did not get along with the 79th Congress, when his own party had control, passed major bills over Mr. Truman’s veto with the support of the Democrat members.”

“President Truman’s real quarrel with the Republican Congress,” said Mr. Halleck, “is that it would not serve as his “rubbe stamp’ in carrying out the recommendations of his New ’ Deal advisors. Mr. Truman has i never realized that in the 1946 Congressional elections the American people restored representative government in the United. States. “By its outstanding- record the Republican Congres- as served all the people to the best in- ! terests of all the people,” con- [ tinued Mr. Halleck. “It has prov- 1 ed itself to be subservient to r,o 1 individual nor to any group of! individuals, to no section of the country nor to any segment of our population.” Mr. Halleck outlined the “maj-; or accomplishmei ” of the Con- ‘ gress, and said hat a pi nary issue i nthe Novembei* elect, n , “the cost of government.” I T. issue in the N< Her elections is omy and Democro vtravagance “The first ess- tial for a sound national economy.’’ aid Mr. Halleck, “is to reduc- the cost of government,” and he pointed out that “the Republican Congress had saved better than $6 bihion. F>r the first time in 17 years the country has a balanced budget, and at the end of the last fiscal year the Treasury announc-

ed a surplus of $8 billion.” Mr. Halleck asserted that “these savings were made possible by the most careful attention to detail and without impairing a single essential activity of government.” Majority Leader Halleck praised the “real contribution to the work of the Congress made by Congressman Cliff Clevenger, of the sth District of Ohio,” emphasizing his service on the important Commitee on Appropriations which he said, “has had the tremendous job of scrutinizing every item of expenditure and determining their relative merits.” Mr. Halleck said that President Truman “never suggested .any savings for the taxpayers but, on the contrary, recommended additional expenditures which would lead to national bankruptcy.” Mr. Halleck predicted a “sweeping Republican victory” in November. “The American people are not going back to the New Deal days of reckless spending, waste and extravagance, and bureaucratic regimentation,” said Mr. Halleck. He said “the American people ■ ' determined to complete the job of restoring sanity and order in government, and this can only bo donecby electing a F an i’reside/t, a Republican and Republican State Administrations.” The House Majority Leader spoke of the “need / ur ooperation between th rt State • 1 Federal Governme' s n ng the problems arising f >uiteen years < f N w D al and he expressed * - ■ *1 confidence in Got nor Thomas Herbert. Mr. and Mrs. Ker icth Zeck were in Chicago last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Spangle of Evergreen Park spent Saturday with his parents, and Mrs. Paul Stangle. Mr. and Mrs. -U. H. Henrichs visited friends in South Bend Sunday.