Show Marquis Childs Oregon Gets New Look LookIn In Primaries WASHINGTON Not Nothing hi n J quite like the primary campaign n nin in Oregon has ever been seen in American politics The outcome may well determine what the Republicans do at their convention convention convention conven conven- tion in Philadelphia a month from now Con Consider ider what an extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary nary spectacle it i is Thomas E E. E Dewey governor of the richest and most populous state in the union is making a cro crossroads barnstorming that in- in Includes more t than an 90 speeches as wc well as n appearances at meetings He is visiting towns as small as Sweet Home population info 1090 and Brownsville population Reports from Oregon indicate that the people of that state are ale flattered at this thi attention That the governor so of or the Empire state with 47 electoral doctoral cl l votes voles should shake hands hand with voters at Rt a crossroads crossroad filling station in a stale with six ix electoral votes voles i is something that has not happened before De C Dewey Gets Advice Shortly before he left leet Albany Dewey Dewer called on the dis long tance phone o EI westerner with a abroad abroad abroad broad understanding of Oregon The governor to was frankly frank frank- ly seeking advice Cf and for 35 85 5 min min- minutes minutes utes he got rot it it The advice went som like this The opposition has ha convinced folks In Oregon Oreon that youre you're a cold fish that fish that youre you're a t steely-eyed steely prosecutor prolocutor Your only ch chance nee to overcome Stassen's lead is to show the th that t yOU vou can get ret down to earth and fight j ht it out You Youve YoUge e got cot to get net your our hair mu mussed sed sen un no and nn get ct a a little dirt dirton on your our hands That is ma exactly exact I v what whal Dewey is doing doine He is striding Into coffee hamburger stands barber shone shins and ann schoolhouses Before he went Into Oregon Dewey Dewe also had the benefit of a R significant public-opinion public noil noll On 30 O. O the Portland Ore- Ore Oregonian gonian published the results of 01 a statewide t poll noll showing that Sen Wayne Vayne Morse Diors Oregon's liberal senator rated higher than the theron ron conservative Sen Guy Gu Gordon Both are Republicans Republican Morse Proves Tops Top F four Fifty four fh per cent o of those thos asked thought Morse had done none a good job soh while 37 c expressed this of Gordon Of or those interviewed 90 out of had hart heard rd of Morse who has made a national reputation for Cor hint himself elf elfin In his three years in the senate n e. e while 74 out of or every had heard hp rn of or Gordon Morse whose forthright liberalism liberalism liber liber- has made mane him a more or orless orless I Iles less les Isolated figure among amone Republicans Re Re- publicans in the senate officially declared his neutrality in th the Dewey Stassen en contest For four our years at the University Un Uner er ity of Minnesota Minnesota Min Min- Stassen was Morses Morse's pupil In debate and In the handling of questions in open forum R Moores Moon s. s who was Morses Morse's campaign manager in his senate race i is now Deweys Dewey's manager Those who write Dewey off of as asan asan an n opportunist see in the liberalism liberalism liberal liberal- ism of his Ore Oregon on campaign no nomore nomore nomore more than th 1 his customary They see him him- himas as making a desperate last try for a prize th that t only a few V months aco ago he believed belh fd was his for or the asking Takes Take Unpopular Side The fact remains however that he is vl vigorously fighting Stassen's Hassen's proposal to outlaw the Communist party Furthermore the evidence would indicate in icat that t Stassen has the popular side of this argument In his speeches the former Minnesota governor gets a hand when 1 he expresses his conviction that a R law la lais is necessary to curb communism This reflects the average Americans American's trusting trustin belief belief be be- lief lier that all an you vou have to lo do no to cure an evil is to pass a law Jaw In contrast Dewey e has hl been heen sneaking in SP lan language of great creat simplicity and ap directness of the threat to fundamental freedoms in any attempt to curb mens men's opinions by bv statute Stassen talks glibly of the the number of Communist rom Com muni t organizations listed In Inthe Inthe Inthe the New York City telephone directory and of how New York is the Communist center of or the country Th There Thre re are signs that Deweys Dewey's ramn in is wi Ten days a an o cigar char stores storrs in Oregon Ore- Ore son con were o offering 5 to 3 on Stassen Stas Stas- en sen to win the primary contest This has narrowed to 5 S to 4 t t as day after day n y Dewey and his hi Dart party narty cruise the the- mountains and beautiful valleys ys of or the state that has six electoral votes On Mav May 21 the voters voter of oC Oregon may decide who Is to be he the next president of or the thc United States or In m any any event they may decide wJ Hn is io not to occupy that exalted office Copyright United Future Syndicate |