Word: deverism
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...wish that Governor Dever had had the courage Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois who vetoed the same type of a hill last year...
...endorsed Governor Dever for re-election last year on the assumption that he was an outstanding liberal. Last Saturday the Governor proved the HLU wrong. He not only signed the Communist control bill within ten hours of its passage by the Legislature--an act that the bill's opponents call unprecedented for its haste--but he did so under such a cloak of secrecy that it looked as if he were ashamed of his own action...
...Dever had also requested the local chapter of a national organization to write up a veto message on this bill. But when the people who were working on this message called the Governor's Office to check up on a small point, they were told that the Governor had signed the bill the day before. They found that Dever had gone to Cape Cod for a vacation and that he could not be reached. As yet there has been no official announcement either...
This secrecy seems to indicate that the Governor signed because of political pressure from the highly vocal and active proponents of this bill. After all, gubernatorial and senatorial elections are within a year's time and Dever will surely run for one of those positions...
...which principles should not be compromised, it is this Communist control bill. Far better to release the Blanchard report without delay, or to compromise on nominations for judicial positions than to hedge on the issue that the Governor chose to hedge on. No matter what apologists may say, Governor Dever has gone back on the many people who considered him truly liberal--and what is worse he knows...