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PRESIDENT SAYS DEMOCRATS SELL 'DOUBT AND FEAR'
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In Chicago Address, He Calls Them the Champions of Inflation and Spending
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AGAIN SCORES 'RADICALS'
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Eisenhower Details Record of Expanding Economy in Urging G.O.P. Victory Eisenhower Charges Democrats With Selling 'Doubt and Fear'


By Felix Belair Jr. special To the New York Times.
Oct. 23, 1958


CHICAGO, Oct. 22-President Eisenhower made another ungloved attack on the Democratic party and its candidates tonight. In an address to Republican precinct workers at the International Amphitheatre here, the President sought to identify the Democratic party as the champion of inflation, "frantically merchandising doubt and fear.". The speech was televised nationally and broadcast to the Midwest area by the Columbia Broadcasting System. To a dinner audience of 4,500 party workers, swollen by standees, the President gave his Administration credit for having prevented an economic recession from becoming a major depression. This was done, he said, while staving off "an avalanche of Federal spending" sponsored by Democrats in Congress.

Democrats Called 'Radicals'

The President charged that the "dominant wing" of the Democratic party was composed of “radicals" and "those of little faith." He said: "The most deceptive notion taught by self-styled liberals is that when the economy starts] to slow up, only a vast outpouring of your tax dollars will pump us out of the trouble."

President Eisenhower read the record of his Administration in: its management of the domestic economy, keeping the nation's defenses strong and keeping it at peace. He then said this was the reason voters would return Republican candidates to state and Congressional offices in next month's elections. The President was interrupted repeatedly by applause during his address. The most prolonged show of approval came when he remarked that spending public funds to finance the nation out of a business recession was like "trying to live on new debts." Another prolonged applause came when, in describing Republican goals in domestic policy, he said that the party's intention was "to help our working men and women drive racketeers and hoodlums out of American labor."

Earlier in the day the President told a meeting of Republican women voters and workers in the Blackstone Hotel here that the country's best chance of remaining at peace and avoiding a major war was to "stay firm and strong and always ready to conciliate." But his chief emphasis in his address tonight was on the need to keep the economy strong. It appeared from the President's talk that his main purpose was to combat a major charge of Democratic candidates that his Administration had brought on the "Eisenhower recession," which began in the summer of 1957.

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