Show 1948 Lampa campaign ign money maneuvers vers siota started arted top republicans angling for presidential cm candidacy by BAUKHAGE news hens analyst and mt commentator washington more than two weeks before congress adjourned the last bit of fight went out of it and it looked very much as though it would glide rapidly but smoothly to an unperturbed finish then the missouri scandal raised its ugly head bead sen james P kern kem rep mo insisted that he was going to present his resolution S res to investigate the justice departments handling of the alleged kansas city vote frauds in 1946 this despite the fact that the judiciary committee of the senate already had bad decided against such a probe to the republicans this was by no DO means an unpleasant dish to have on the fire for they intend to make it one of the pieces de resistance si ot of the campaign but they want to start it cooking before adjournment journ ment tor for VAA they realized that while too man many y cooks cant spoil this broth it might make everybody late for dinner dinner baukhage back home the democrats ot of course were set to fight it and some ot of the republicans public ans rather than prolong the battle wanted to forget it for the present tt it be entirely neglected for despite violent digging on the part of the republican and democratic national committees no really luscious campaign issue has been unearthed the issue will be used but it cannot be depended upon as a major weapon in the battle of 1948 at present the republicans although they are optimistic enough concerning the final victory realize that it cannot be achieved without some heavy artillery capable of smashing the democratic defensive the strongest feature of which to date is the poll the poll that showed in july that harry truman still had a 54 per cent popular majority that is why a lot of politicians on capitol hill are saying well win with dewey not just well win be surprised to see how bow many good democrats turn sadly away without replying to the republican boast there is one group of course which Is insisting stubbornly well win with taft they may admit it if you put them in sl a corner that they cant win with taft now because ol of the positive evidence reflected in the truman poll and the negative evidence revealed in the tail taft poll but they say taft started to campaign when he does hell change all that how about warren of california toward whom those who like neither tafts conservatism nor liberalism nor deweys deleys dewey ism are looking hopefully well there is one story that warren possibly swing the no 1 place and that he be want the no 2 job that what he does want is the attorney generalship at this writing nobody is afraid of the formation of a third party by the left wingers who would follow wallace in the hope of buil building ilg him up for 1952 or merely to spite everybody else As tar a revenge labor vote tor for the tatt taft hartley act tafts friends are going to insist that he was the man who saved it from being a really vicious anti labor weapon shortly after the veto was overridden he indicated that the clauses which muzzle the labor press and prevents them from expressing their political views should be amputated in facts fact some people who are much farther to the left than taft in both parties insist that this bill is going to lose its terrors with time that familiarity will bring not contempt but the realization that it may be used by both management and labor to their advantage just as the railway labor act much belabored in its early days eventually became a useful allaround all around gadget meanwhile the white house contingent has not been heard humming bostis goodbye |