The Pittsburgh Press (September 8, 1944)
PAC called foe of democracy
Louisville, Kentucky (UP) –
Miss Marion E. Martin, assistant chairman of the GOP National Committee, today warned the meeting of the National Federation of Women’s Republican Clubs here that the CIO’s Political Action Committee is engaged in a “long-range program to subvert democracy.”
Miss Martin declared:
The PAC is employing Nazi tactics by urging that pupils in California grade schools be taught trade unionism.
Our schools are dedicated to training our children to think rather than to follow. Any attempts to indoctrinate our children with dogmas violates one of our most precious heritages.
Dewey there tonight
Miss Martin called upon her audience to point out in campaign arguments that “the same organization which is employing these un-American pressure methods,” is supporting President Roosevelt.
The GOP presidential candidate will make the second speech of his cross-country tour here tonight.
The Federation also heard the vote-getting suggestions of one lifelong Democrat – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield, who announced he is about to cast his first vote for a Republican presidential candidate.
Warns of disasters
Mr. Bromfield declared that he thought the Democratic Convention in Chicago caused “at least three to four million Democrats to step over the line in 1944 and vote for Governor Dewey.”
Unless the present administration is unseated, “the disasters which overtook Europe will overtake us here,” Mr. Bromfield warned.