Show series of contradictions marks political Carn campaign pai 9 n by BAUKHAGE neich analyst and commentator washington political currents cur renta and cross currents aro are running high wide and deep along the potomac these days the wave of popularity stirred up by stassen supporters Is if not pleasant for regular republicans to contemplate some of the non professionals hwe however v r particularly those to in the th tatt taft corner are very bitter about it not because they think that stassen will get in but because of the we way y he h has a served to block the tatt taft efforts despite the fact that those efforts have been la belled rightly or wrongly futile from the tha beginning Dewey ites dont admit they are worrying butt I 1 talked to one ct cf the taft men recently what makes me sick he said Is the way the people who have done their best to break down taft are full of praise tor for h him I 1 m how that they think he is beaten they describe his efficiency his knowledge h I 1 i a frankness his grasp of the subjects he discusses and they talk a about ll 11 0 u t stassen Stas sani a vagueness gueness and inability to answer tafts charges charge and these he wound up are the tame same people who have been shooting at tatt taft ever since lie he started his campaign there is something in what this man says you would be b surprised how many liberals how many democrats even praise tait taft privately would really like to see him elected but either they cant quite come coma out openly in his bis lavor favor or they take for granted he cant win anyhow then there Is the great group of ft republicans who are solas going to vote for dewey but act as ai it if they were grIt britting gritting ting their teeth la in the process what have you yon got against dewey I 1 ask them some are vague others say tho the new york tork governor la Is a an opportunist never comes out for an issue until ho he sees fees a gallup poll on it but I 1 suppose hell win 11 can he be since the tea stassen hurricane the ha finers are talking a little differently ly about dewey some of 0 them who have predicted right along that dewey would win now are saying that stassen has undermined him so thoroughly that now dewey has no more chance than tatt taft and all the time the tide li is rising but heres an interesting thing way back in february some very canny observers were saying that speaker joe joa martin of the house of representatives had the best chance of anyone for the republican presidential nomination in case of the expected tatt taft dewey deadlock at the time many people were surprised at that opinion but it long before we began to tee see mention of martin here and there then finally insiders insider accepted him as probably the best bet of the th several republican dark horses horbes I 1 know I 1 could feel his popularity growing is as I 1 travelled around the country but then came the stir prise move when Is martin lartin was c credited with bringing about settlement of ef the coal miners pension row the appointment of sen styles bridges of new hampshire us as neutral trustee on the pension board with john lewis and ezra van norn and the he agreement agTe ement that was reached between bridges and lewis at first the settlement put martin in a favorable light with the public then some ot of the conservative republicans who hate lewis expressed their disapproval there were hints oi of a deal that had been reached between bridges and lewis before bridges was appointed dom dem charged that martin was horn representing the operators era tors appealed to the courts court to declare the pension agreement invalid martins stock dropped and the tha old tImers began to say his chances for the presidential nomination were wera slam not so much because of the pension deal itself but paradoxically and this Is one of the accepted paradoxes of politics because his intervention in the row was waa taken as a public avowal of hit his candidacy martin ceased to be a dark horse hone and as a light horse he h considered nearly as much of a favor the paradox applies to senator Vanden bere the michigan Ml chlan senator constantly and consistently has disavowed any desire or er intention of being a candidate for the republican nomination it so ao cording to this paradoxical political rule the ola timers say be were thrust into the limelight his cause would suffer too at this seems to stand as the no I 1 bet however claim that this paradox Is all old hat that times and political thinking have changed one of the first black marks mark which the republican old guard checked against stassen was the fact that he be came right out as a a candidate way ahead of urn time thi the traditional thing Is to be oh ob so coy about it but some observers feel eel as newsweek magazine expressed it some time ago forthright quest for or votes may end much of the traditional coyness of aspirants in the future its iti tl rought that more candidates will frankly announce announce their intentions well in advance of election well maybe there Is plenty of old line resentment against stassen not only be cause tie he began an open campaign so 0 early but also because of tho the efficient powerful highly organized and aggressive machine he has built up A right wing ne republican publIcan I 1 spoke poke to recently teemed seemed e especially 3 resentful grumbling ab about th the e big money backing minns tal s ex governor and nd the new york banking interests that wanted to in senator tatt taft was reported so furious over ever vailon ln n of ohio that it was thought fat that b ha might tort forget his bli rivalry with vi dewey and throw his support to the new yorker earlier in the convention it II the deadlock was certain AU all this talk AGAINST candidates is if interesting psychologically you always hear far more reasons for voting AGAINST a candidate than you hear for voting FOR one its it a very good thing that no candidate is ever quite so 10 bad as his opponents claim he Is otherwise the government would fall fail apart regularly every four years monroe doctrine 18 reactivated on charles street in the sleepy little town of 0 fredericksburg va in the first floor office of a story and a half brick house you can see it if you obey the parking signs signi and stop there a beau beautiful tiM brassbound brass bound mahogany desk artistic handiwork of the french cabinet makers of the early century li it Is an historic piece of furniture for on oa its surface years ago there was signed adocia a document ment which reactivated today becomes at once the challenge and the hope of free men throughout the world that desk carefully carried across the seas seal as a precious heirloom found its way into the great empty rooms of the white house newly rebuilt after the destructive fire set by an enemy torch in the war of 1812 turn back the pages page to december of the year 1823 at this desk sits a man in a stiffly starched stock his broad forehead la Is wrinkled with thought his wide eyes look down at the document be Is about to sign it is his message to the congress of the united states but it embodies the spirit and Is ii couched in the phrases which his predecessors have used before him expressing the intent and the obligations of the young republic ot of which he james monroe is the president two years before the czar of all the russians had uttered a ukase that no foreigner must approach within miles of the american coastline north of the parallel russia then had a firm foothold on the northwestern of the western hemisphere the iron curtain curlain had descended plus ca change plus ca reste lix lax merne mema chose t we could not view any interposition for the purpose of opples sag in g them the free countries countr lea of a the americas Amerl cas by any european power in ia any other light than as a the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the united states one hundred and twenty five years pass today the united states in it a world that has bai shrunk until moscow Is I 1 nearer to washington than boston booton was in monroes monroen Mon roes time redell cates its resources to help tree free peoples to maintain their tree free insul and their national integrity against aggressive movements that see seek k to impose upon them totalitarian regimes the words are president Preal deat tru mans but the spirit Is the same as 1 l that breathed la in the monroe doctrine america carries on polysyllabically john L lewis and gen douglas macarthur macarty ur have some thing in chmir common 0 arh perhaps lewit lewis should run as macarthur Mac Arthuri 2 vice president think of all the sonorous oui five 11 v c syllable word statements they could get out in president Lincol ns time most of the speeches were made in the open air without benefit of public address system or microphone now mow all you really need Is a few friends who can make inake themselves heard in a smoke filled 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