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of the Republican national con- was the chief Jewish supporter Christian Soldiers.* Rabbi Wise
vention at which the Progres- of "Teddy" Roosevelt and the was a staunch suppofter of Wil-
sive wing walked out and nom- Rough Rider President seemed son and it was just then that a
cording to some accounts, inated "Teddy" Roosevelt as a to have a great deal of re- new figure was just - appearing
prevailed upon several Jews Progressive. Taft had many spect for Oscar Straus. It was on the American horizon, one
to issue the Yiddish paper as Jewish associations, going back Oscar Straus who led the who was destined to leave a
to his childhood days when the march down the aisles of the lasting impression on Ameri-
a campaign project.
Greeley lost the election in Tafts were friends of the Isaac Bull Moose convention while can and Jewish life—I mean,
a campaign so bitterly fought M. Wise family. Oscar Straus the band played "Onward Louis D. Brandeis.
that it brought about his death.
He died soon after the elec-
tion. He complained that he
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had been so abused in the race,
that one might think he was
running "for the penitentiary,
instead of the Presidency."
Those were hard days for can-
didates. Our campaigns are
genteel in comparison.
The first Presidential race
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of fullness was the one in
which Wilson, Taft and Teddy
Roosevelt competed for the
priZe. All three had their e.mi-
nent Jewish supporters. Victor
Rosewater was the chairman

The Heart of Politics

By DAVID SCHWARTZ
Politics is politics. When Jef-
ferson ran for the Presidency,
it was said that, if elected, he
would burn all the Bibles in
the country and put the preach-
ers in the front line in the
event of war.
Andrew Jackson was accused
of being an infidel. He just
hadn't gotten around to join-
ing the church. Later, he
wanted to join up but decided
not to do it until after he re-
tired from the Presidency. He
explained that if he joined a
church during his race for the
Presidency, it would be said
that his motive was political,
Henry Clay, running for the
Presidency, was accused of
traveling on the Sabbath.
Strangely enough, it does not
seem that much was made of
his excessive card playing. Mrs.
Clay didn't object to his gam-
bling, explaining, "he most al-
ways wins."
Lincoln in his race was ac-
cused of being an infidel and
it was also charged that he
had been a member of the
"Know Nothings."' Lincoln
asked his Jewish friend,
Abraham Jonas, to clear him
of the latter charge. Lin-
coln's running mate, Hanni-
bal Hamlin, was accused of
having colored blood.
The religious issue did turn
the tide in the campaign *of
Cleveland and Blaine. A Pfbt-
estant clergyman, heading a
delegation paying their respects
to Blaine, referred to Cleve-
land as the candidate of "Rum,
o ma n i s m and Rebellion."
Blaine let the remark pass by
in silence and the Democrats
made the most of it. There
was a last minute turn of New
York Catholics to Cleveland
and the state went to the Dem-
ocrats by a margin of a few
hundred votes. It was a close
contest and the Catholics turn-
ed the election.
The issue of the Catholic

Church, of course, was a very

important factor in the race of

Al Smith against Hoover. "Al'

was a very popular figure and
might easily have been elect e d
but for his religion. Protestant
opponents charged that as Pres-
ident, Smith would owe his
first allegiance to Rome. It is
an interesting fact that the
highly documented statement ,
quoting Church sources, an-
swering this accusation, was
written 'by a Jew — Judge
Joseph Proskauer.
A Presidential race was re-
sponsible for the appearance
of the first Yiddish newspa-
per in the country. It goes
way back to the time when
Horace Greeley, probably
America's greatest editor; ran
against Grant. Greeley, ae-

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Klutznick Speaks
in Ike's Church on
Near East Events

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Na-
tional president Philip M. Klutz-
nick of Bnai Brith told a
Protestant forum audience in
President Eisenhower's church
that Israel and the Arab states
could work out a "genuine
peace" if major world powers
would stop imposing "their own
ground rules for peace in the
Middle East."
Klutznick said it was the re-
sponsibility of the major powers
"to forego intervention and
backstairs diplomacy and to set
up the conference table." He
was introduced by the Rev. Ed-
ward L. R. Elson, pastor of the
National Presbyterian Church,
who is widely known as the
President's pastor. Rev. Elson
is also noted for his leadership
in the anti-Zionist group "Am-
erican Friends of the Middle
East."
The Bnai Brith leader said
the Arab refugee problem "cries

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out for prompt and just solu-
tion," but that it "will not be
solved by cynical, politically-

motivated demands for total
reparation—no more so than
any of the countless refugee
problems of history have been
solved that way."
Klutznisk said he was "con-
founded by those critics who
denounced Israel's right to
exist by interpreting her inde-
pendence as a kind of treacher-
ous achievement of power poli-
tics at the expense of other
Middle Eastern groups." He
pointed out that it was only
recently that Jordan, Syria,
Lebanon and Egypt had achieved
their independence.
Referring to the refugee prob-
lem in the Middle East, Klutz-
nick said "we tend to forget
that of the 760,400 refugees who
found a homeland in Israel dur-
ing the first three years of her
statehood, half of these were
refugees from Arab lands, up-
rooted by the same Arab war
on Israel that uprooted so many
Palestinian Arabs."
In Atlantic City, a resolution
called upon President Eisen-
hower to sever diPlomatic rela-
tions with Arab countries dis-
criminating against American
Jewish citizens, if efforts to
halt such discrimination fail. It
was adopted at the convention
of the Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of Am-
erica.

*By injecting his own ideas and prefer-
ences, Premier Bulganin (of Russia) took
sides in the campaign. He currently en-
dorsed Adlai Stevenson's position on the
issue, if he did not endorse Mr. Stevenson.
But any American is entitled to the
opinion that he did.

"The President's reply to Bulganin was
an equally well-deserved rebuke to Mn
Stevenson.

• But, can you trust the future of

your children, your home, your
job, your country to the Demo-
cratic Party that is advocating
weakening of our defense? Can
you? You be the judge on Novem*-
ber 6th at the polls!

The latter invited Russian interest by
raising, in the heat of a political campaign,
an
issue which is so closely related to
the defense of this Country that it has no
proper place in politics.

"Bulganin took advantage of the opening
which Mr. Stevenson provided him; it was
as improper as if the Communist leader
had offered his advice to the Democratic
aspirant about any other phase of United
State defense policy, including the size of
the Air Force.

• Every man and woman in
Michigan should read this edi-

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torial from the Detroit Free Press

"It can hardly be
thought that Btilganin's
preferences in regard to H-bomb tests
would not conform to Russia's interest,

(October 23) before voting:

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"What Bulganin said in his letter, in effect,
was that he would prefer to do business
with Mr. Stevenson on the bomb issue,
rather than with President Eisenhower.
"The implication of
this should not be
lost on the American voter. Twice before,
at Yalta and Potsdam, the Russians dealt
with heads of Democratic Administrations
on matters which shaped the course of
history to the Reds' advantage. They have
not done so well with the Eisenhower
Administration. It is understandable that
the Kremlin would be happier dealing
again with Democrats in charge of our
foreign policy."

BACK IKE WITH
MICHIGAN'S BEST

Dr. Naphtali Succeeds
Josephthal in Agency

The
JERUSALEM (JT•)
election of Dr. Peretz Naphtali-
as a member of the Jewish
Agency 'executive was an-
nounced at a meeting of that
body. Dr. Naphtali, who re-
ceived 7.3 of a possible 86 votes
in a mail election, succeeds Dr.
Giora Josephthal; who left the
executive after 11 years of
service to take up the post of
secretary general of the Mapai
Party of Israel.

Love can hope where rea s on
would despair.—George Lyttle-
ton

Excerpt from editorial In The
Detroit
Free Press, Oct. 23, 1956.

• President Eisenhower brought
us peace. Ike brought us pros.
perity, too, without having Amer-
ican boys dying on foreign soil to
pay for it! You can put your trust
in President Eisenhower.

Be Sure!

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