| Show Round Merry fj Real Dirt Farmed 4 Throws Scare t Into Iowa's s GOP By Ily Drew v lear Pearson on WASHINGTON Out Out in rock ribbed R Re Ae publican Iowa a lot of folks dont don't t yno kno much more about Democrats than a a. atit v h- h does about tit Sunday But this this year th Democrats are throwing a slight zul SCar ar into the Republicans and here are factors helping them to do it e 1 Old Hector whisky y j I 2 P 60 antifreeze A 3 A bona bonn fide dirt farmer running g f the senate enate on the Democratic ticket J I IThe The rhe bona fide farmer is Al Love who cant can't make a speech much better tiu a rooster can lay eggs But he seri faithfully In the U. U S. S Department of APIculture API A culture as undersecretary knows s abo half the farmers in Iowa and has unto unc ered the rather important fact that l opponent G GO GOP 0 P Senator Bourke HIckE looper attended only one out of six m me 1 ings of the thc senate agriculture As a result Loveland has been eff eu lively asking Iowa farmers Would y hire a hand who came to work one day c cof of six j Instead of ot a attending meetings of 1 t agriculture committee Senator Hick looper had led the peeping bed probes fi ti j of the atomic energy commission then the State department J The probe of the at atomic energy co comission comission comission mission backfired badly partly because I former editor of the Des Moines Regist Tribune V. W. W. W Waymack was then member of the commission and people Iowa knew he wouldn't stand for ator atol secrets leaking partly because ev atomic leak so far has been nailed on army Not a single leak has been na nai naion naion on the controlled civilian-controlled commission t made so many char against Hound Dog ers er's probe of the State department which he followed in the footsteps of gra gr standing Joe McCarthy looked as it if would pay better political dividends Evone Ev Eve one pointed to his big primary majo major and said At least Bourkes Bourke's hound hound hound-dogg dogg has been rewarded But now folks are inclined to fig that a State department which acted forthrightly in Korea couldn't have l 1 bored many Communists and that ma Ina hound-dog hound got hold of a a sc S that was about five years old will probably win in vember ember The normal G GO GOP 0 P margin Iowa seems fairly certain to carry through But he isn't being helped by two other developments These j 1 The Republican-controlled Republican s 5 liquor commission loaded itself up wit it lot of Old Hector whisky aged tl tf years when it could have bought bon boi whisky guaranteed by the federal gorE gov ment to be four years old at almost same price Why the G GOP 0 P commiss ers went for Old Hector instead of the i 1 iter ter grade is a question the Democrats v a answered So far none has been fo to coming 2 Iowa's G GO GOP 0 P secretary of a I ture tune Clyde Spry approved the pure of an antifreeze for trucks despite the the OJ l that Iowa State college warned that brand of antifreeze contained antifreeze P 60 contained and would ruin engines The U. U S S. S bur bui of standards in Washington also refi refu to okeh P 60 antifreeze but G GO GOP 0 P se sel tary Spry P 60 just the same Democrats now want to know why In fact Lester Gillette Democratic i c for governor goes further than 1 t tIt It would be better he says to Old Hector whisky in our radiators drink the P Copyright 1950 Bell Syndicate In Ine |
