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The very last word in tastelessness was reached in Chicago when Governor Frank Clement brought to the stage two personable children who had won, respectively, sixty-four thousand and one hundred thousand dollars by answering esoteric questions on national quiz shows. It was all carefully set up, of course, with the precocious young things carefully regurgitating carefully rehearsed answers, all designed to establish that Enlightened Youth is Democratic. Governor Clement is better off dealing with captive adolescents than with adults; though it is sad. to see anyone traducing children.

The Democrats have prepared a second line of argumentative defense for those too finicky to be swept into the Democratic camp by Gov. Clement’s alliterative asininities. It is a campaign primer entitled, How to Argue with a Republican (Thirty-two quick answers to GOP claims). Among the recommended ripostes: “A Democratic Congress failed to pass the school bill because 119 Republicans voted against it”; “all Republican cuts in government spending came out of the defense budget”; and FDR might have been a sick man when renominated in 1944 “but he never spent a single day in the hospital.” Who says the Democrats don’t preside over the Party of Jefferson?

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The very last word in tastelessness was reached in Chicago when Governor Frank Clement brought to the stage two personable children who had won, respectively, sixty-four thousand and one hundred thousand dollars by answering esoteric questions on national quiz shows. It was all carefully set up, of course, with the precocious young things carefully regurgitating carefully rehearsed answers, all designed to establish that Enlightened Youth is Democratic. Governor Clement is better off dealing with captive adolescents than with adults; though it is sad. to see anyone traducing children.

The Democrats have prepared a second line of argumentative defense for those too finicky to be swept into the Democratic camp by Gov. Clement’s alliterative asininities. It is a campaign primer entitled, How to Argue with a Republican (Thirty-two quick answers to GOP claims). Among the recommended ripostes: “A Democratic Congress failed to pass the school bill because 119 Republicans voted against it”; “all Republican cuts in government spending came out of the defense budget”; and FDR might have been a sick man when renominated in 1944 “but he never spent a single day in the hospital.” Who says the Democrats don’t preside over the Party of Jefferson?