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Show Political Experts Are Assessing Sweeping Democratic Victory With the off-year election over, political observers are settling down to figure out what happened hap-pened and what will happen between be-tween now and November, 1960. It seems pretty well agreed that general dissatisfaction with the way Republicans have been running run-ning things both locally and nationally. But the pundits are not so sure what "will happen during the coming two years. Democrats who won an overwhelming over-whelming victory this year, will be out to take the big prize two years from now. How will they do about it? What must they do? Columnist William McMahon, writing in Philadelphia during the week, observed that: Both the Democratic and Republican Re-publican National Committees' strategists now are actively trying try-ing ways for exploiting each other's known divisions for their own advantage in the next big national election in 1960, when the Presidency will be at stake. "Vice President Nixon, in particular, par-ticular, believes that the GOP's (and his own) best chance for winning the Presidency is to deepen the division, especially on civil rights, in the Democratic party. His closest advisors say Nixon is determined to press for elimination of the Senate filibuster fili-buster in January when the new Senate convenes. This misuse of the rule is what has enabled the Southern Senators to talk civil rights legislation to death. "The civil rights issue will also ' explode in the Democratic party next month when election of a new Democratic party chairman is scheduled in Washington. The chairman, Paul Butler, is seeking re-election and is opposed by southerners who denounced his ? mid-campaign threat to read civil rights opponents out of the plant and market as they please. The new Congress will be equally equal-ly concerned with 'protecting' farmers from excessive high production pro-duction and damaging low prices. "The most pressing farm problem prob-lem with which both Congress and Mr. Benson must deal is that of mounting surpluses. Government Govern-ment holdings of farm commodities commodi-ties may reach, and possibly exceed ex-ceed $10 billion by early next year. "The government is now spending spend-ing at the rate of more than $4 billion a year in an unsuccessful effort to reduce surpluses with 1) acreage allotments and direct payments to producers, and 2) subsidized disposal of as much of the excess as possible. "The billion dollar a year soil bank under which farmers have been paid to retire 25 million acres from production has failed to. stem the rising tide of surpluses. sur-pluses. The costly soil bank acreage acre-age reserve program is being discontinued dis-continued after this year. "Total crop production this year will top any previous year by more than ten per cent. This record has been set with fewer j acres in cultivation than any year since the 1880's and by a third fewer farmers than there were 25 years ago. "The government is spending more than a $1 billion a year to cover losses and storage costs on surpluses. It is spending another $2 billion a year in financing surplus disposal, mostly through what amounts to a give-away program abroad. "Our stockpile of wheat, corn, sorghum grain, soybeans and barley is at an all time high. Wheat supplies in October were more than two billion bushels; enough to fill two freight trains with their engines in New York and their caboose in San Francisco. party. Many northern Democrats also dislike Butler, but don't want to be put in the position of seeming to replace him because of his strong civil rights statements. state-ments. Butler, realizing this, has said he intends to make his support sup-port of a strong civil rights program pro-gram the basis on which he will seek re-election. "Democrats are determined to prove a link between Republicans Republi-cans and labor racketeers. Many Democrats, and most AFL-CIO leaders, believe that the McClel-lan McClel-lan labor rackets investigation failed miserably to place blame where it belonged for racketeering racketeer-ing in organized labor. Turning to what will happen when the Democrat controlled new Congress convenes in January Janu-ary another well known columnist, column-ist, Clinton Davidson, notes: "Now that the election excitement excite-ment has died down in Washington, Washing-ton, farm issues are shaping up as one of the toughest problems which the new Congress faces when it convenes in January. "Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson will insist that farmers farm-ers be given more freedom to |