Show 1 1948 C campaign campaign maneuvers started top republicans angling for presidential candidacy by new news analyst and 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 bed finish then the missouri scandal raised its ugly head sen james P kem rep mo insisted that he was going to present his resolution S res to investigate the justice department departments s handling of the alleged kansas city vote frauds in 1946 this despite the fact that the judiciary commit tee of the senate already hadj decided against such a probe to the republicans this was by no means an unpleasant dish to have on the fire r for they intend to make it one of the pieces de re aa V si stance ot of the 1 campaign but they t want to start it cook ing before ad journ ment for they realized that while too many coo cooks s can t spoil this broth it mig might t make ev late for baukhage dinner 4 back home the Demo democrat crato of course were set to fight it and arid some of the re publicans rather than prolong the battle wanted to forget it tor for the present it t be entirely neglected for despite violent digging on the part odthe republican and demo cratic national committees no real ly 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 al though 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 st 11 had a 54 per cent popular majority that is why a lot of pol t ceans on capitol hill are saying we 11 win with dewey not just we 11 II win you d be surprised to see how many good democrats turn sadly away without replying to the re publican boast there is one group of course which Is insisting stubbornly we U 11 win with taft they may admit if you put them in a corner that they can t win with taft now because of the positive evidence re fleeted in the truman poll and the negative evidence revealed in the taft poll but they say taft chasn t started to campaign when he does he 11 change all that how about warren of california toward whom those who like neither taft s conservatism nor stassen s liberalism nor dewey s dewey ism are looking hopefully 7 well there is one story that warren t possibly swing the no I 1 places and that he doesn doean t want the no 2 job that what be he does want is the at torney generalship at this writing nobody Is afraid of the formation of a third party by the left wingers who would fol low wallace in the hope of build ng him up for 1952 or merely to spite everybody e very body else As to a revenge labor vote for the taft hartley act tatt taft s 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 over ridden he indicated that the clauses which muzzle the labor press and prevents them from expressing their cal views should be amputated in tact 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 con tempt but the realization that it may be used by both manage ment and labor to their advantage just as the railway labor act much belabored in its early days evenou ally became a useful all around gad get meanwhile the white house con has not been heard hum ming tosti s goodbye |