NEW ASPIRANT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22569, 24 February 1948, Page 5

NEW ASPIRANT

U.S. VICE-PRESIDENCY WALLACE’S RECRUIT SENATOR TAYLOR (2 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Feb. 23. Senator Glen Taylor, (Democrat, Idaho), announced that he is leaving the Democratic Party and standing for election as Vice-President under MrHenry Wallace’s third-party banner. Senator Taylor said: “I am going to cast my lot with Mr. Henry Wallace in his brave and gallant fight for peace. I am convinced that Mr. Wallace is the only leader capable of ending ‘cold’ war and re-establishing even the beginnings of international goodwill. “He is the only leader of sufficient stature to aspire to the Presidency who has not sought the cheap applause of the reactionary press by blaming all our troubles on Russia. “He is the only leader we can put forward who has the confidence of the people everywhere.” Senator Taylor said he was not leaving the Democratic Party—it had left him. “Wall Street and the military have taken over.” Our foreign policy of supporting reaction all over the world on a unilateral basis has weakened, undermined and almost destroyed the United Nations. I would be untrue to the people who elected me if I took any other action than the one chosen." Senator Taylor is an ardent proZionist and won national attention during the first Senatorial campaign by touring the country with a banjo, singing cowboy songs to his own accompaniment. He wears a cowboy costume when among the electors and recently made a long horseback ride across the country to camnaign against the Administration’s foreign and domestic policies.