The Candidate

The candidate strode into the presidential room of the Statler Hotel in Washington amid the handclaps and cheers of 1,500 Republican women. Huge color pictures of Eisenhower and Nixon dominated the throng, surmounted by a blue and white banner that read PEACE--PROSPERITY--PROGRESS. "This is a great and glorious day for the Republican women," cried Miss Bertha Adkins of the Republican National Committee, her black sweater bedecked by an IKE diamond clip. "We're going to fight and fight hard for your victory." The candidate smiled warmly and made a few informal remarks:

"Bertha and ladies," he said, "it is always for me a special privilege to address the women of this party. First of all, for a very practical reason, they tell me there are more women in the U.S. than there are men. But secondly, I have the most deep conviction that a political party can be called such only if its whole purposes are soundly based in some moral and spiritual values. The women of this nation are more concerned in their day-to-day work, I think, than are men with these values. They have the job of rearing our young, those youngsters who are so dear to all our hearts, and they want them to grow up with the right kind of values imbedded in them, so that as they meet the problems of life they will always have a certain kind of principle or doctrine or belief to fall back on that will help guide them through the rough spots. I think the women therefore must be concerned with these values, and I return to my statement that if a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party, it is merely a conspiracy, which is to seize power."

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