Show the election has changed chanow Y e d both oft democrats and GOP gur by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator washington there are two experiences which no one should miss if he can help it coming into pans paris the city of light and washington the city of magnificent distances at twilight by airplane lately I 1 dropped down from the clouds upon washington with the lingering embrace of southern sunlight about me the tiny sparkling lights below winked their welcome but this esthetic experience ended briskly when I 1 left the airport the winking lights stared and by the time I 1 reached the national press club eyes winked but they belonged to my colleagues who patrol the beat from the white house to the capitol fresh from the innocent delights ot of the vacationing vacation mg fisherman I 1 bragged about my tan a and nd then carelessly in quiren what Is going to happen in congress next month one of the col leagues ansbe answered red harry truman Is lucky he owes one debt he never will have to pay to henry wal lace when wal lace bowed him baukhage hage self sellout out he stepped on the red ruffles of miss democrat democrats s petticoat and pulled it along with him and it was generally admitted that much of the stigma connected with the charge of 4 coddling communists I 1 was removed when wallace left like the pied pled piper not of hamelin but once of iowa he piped away a lot of the I 1 lunatic fringe I 1 which is the eternal headache of all political par ties the rodent in this case both red and pink followed the piper a dulcet promises but the piper was wa s unable to take his revenge un like the flutist in the poem who lured hamelin s children away when their parents wouldn rit t pay the rat exterminator henry henrys s p p tog ing titillated few democratic ears the voters didn dian t follow there were other unwept losses among harry truman s alleged supporters he won the elect on without the solid south the other end of the democratic spectrum colored by the views of those who preferred mint juleps under the fragrant magnolias to straight yankee or middle western spirits withdrew discreetly and complete ly to their jasmine curtained veran dab this doesn doean t mean they wont won t be heard from later but they aren t the worry they once were while no one would bracket the conservatives with the lunatic fringe the did cause many embarrassments to the dem now they are at least sep aracely ticketed the republicans likewise derived certain healing qualities from the cold douche they took on november 2 not unlike mr air truman s A number of their diehards die hards died in the struggle with the electorate minority leader to be joseph martin of massachusetts is no wild eyed radical so what he says on the subject of change which is what the radical always wants Is significant joe warned his friends back in attleboro Att leboro mass a district which probably will elect him as long as he chooses to run that the leans in the recent campaign of the people too many brah mins too many plutocrats these republican candidates said joe likewise offered too little person aliby did not appeal to the people and formed a narrow circle which prevented what he called sion and the opening of ranks of whom could he have been thinking we digressed too far from the people the former speaker said and the GOP must reorganize in the cities and towns getting in new blood at every level joe was speaking then out of bis his deep political wisdom social legislation Is here to stay rep hugh scott of pennsylvania chairman of the republican nation al committee in the recent cam laign gave another significant post election warning to his party re publicans must recognize he said that legislation embodying social ga ns is here to stay so it would appear that these men and many of the other republicans who now represent the GOP in congress are as happy to be relieved not of lunatic fringe like the democrats but of an albatross around aroune their necks the republicans who are trying to re form their ranks and re build tor for 1950 are by no means pessi to quote joe martin again he predicted that the GOP would snap back quicker than they went out they know now if some of them didn dian t before they must keep I 1 step with the times one of the great problems the republican na dional committee faced in the cam earn laign was reconciling the pro gres sive ideas set forth in mr dewey s speeches with the some what pleistocene attitude as one observer described it of some of the ex candidates for house and senate witness the embarrassing situa tion in west virginia not to men tion illinois the new york gover nor simply couldn coulden t stomach cross ing the borders of west virginia to embrace its recalcitrant senator chicago on the other hand is a railway center and it was feces sary for governor dewey to change trains there and in rome do as romans do he ile did and endorsed the republican senatorial candidate from illinois but the citizens of illinois did not had mr dewey been elected and had the republican senator from illinois been re elected reelected the white house would have faced difficulties among them the embarrassing par adox sen C wayland brooks opposed the marshall plan which dewey strongly endorsed taking that as a guide it seems possible that brooks could have been count ed upon to vote against a dewey dulles foreign policy as he did against mr truman s liberal thought growing in U S the election I 1 believe caused thoughtful people to emerge with one idea which the entire nation regardless of its politics will have to get used to the thought is not original with me but it is one that was mentioned by the only person who did predict the election re suit sult except the man I 1 lost a bet to agriculture economist bean said something like this the wave of 0 liberal thought which appeared to have reached its zenith under roosevelt Is still on the upswing apparently the natural postwar reaction stopped it but didn dian t start it going in the op cosite direction now some of you may not like that thought but it were well to accustom oneself to the idea nor need you expect the pendulum ever to swing as far back as you might wish personally I 1 enjoy riding behind a spanking team in a buggy with the fringe on top and I 1 wonder it if we wouldn t all be better off if the internal combus tion engine had never been invent ed but I 1 am willing to admit things being what they are that we have traffic lights and other an regulations at any rate when president tru man takes the rostrum to deliver his message in january he will look out on a congress which his friends claim he fashioned in large part with his own hand or I 1 might say with his own sharp tongue from a back platform harry truman went out and fought tooth and nail no holds barred for the kind of congress he wanted the ile people whether or not that was their only intention gave it to him and now as one somewhat cani cal observer remarked to me harry harrys s got what he wanted god help him he has to deliver now the wednesday democrats have turned out to be saturdays children when it comes to getting lobs jobs in washington an elephant can do a lot of things with his trunk but he has to carry it with him when he travels I 1 can check mine the ocean I 1 is growing rowing saltier ac cording to the national geographic probably getting jealous of the great salt lake a television is climbing out of its cradle says electrical advertising lets let s hope it wont won t crawl back to meet the occupants of cradles half way export of butter from the argen tine is increasing perhaps because it won t melt in president peron s mouth when he tells what he 11 do to people who want to prevent his re election its it s an ill wind 1 I d say serious ly ill that blows nobody s good cigarette lighter out 0 it s hard to find anything you like to eat when you re on a diet but suppose you were an ant eater home sewing is a bigger business than ever but what s being sewed is nobody a business |