Show Marquis Childs Will 1952 Be e Another 48 OMAHA 01 Carefully cherished a among m o 0 n g faithful Democrats in Washington is t the h c belief that this is another ant ane an an- r e t then other t h c l' l 19 1948 48 1 Just as it was your years ago ergo in m this pre pre- convention f u Up P r l' i o 0 d the stock of the they theL y L' L rum Truman an adIn administration ad- ad In ministration i n i s a tion on could scarcely Mr 1 Childs be lower But as in MR 48 when the chips are arc down Truman or a candidate he lie desi designates nates can reverse all that and make what seemed certain defeat into certain victory It may be he true truc A lot of us were badly hadly fooled four our years a ago o and as 15 to politics this seems to be an m even more trick tricky year ear But certain elements clements are present which were not present in 48 One of them is Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee who is tirelessly campaigning for the nomination in almost every stale state with a presidential primary lIe He is going up and down here in Nebraska as in New Hampshire and Wisconsin asking people to support him with the modest almost self- self effacing manner that sits so oddly on a politician Yet it is effective Kefauver impresses the plain citizens he meets with his sincerity and his simplicity The Underdog Above all he is the underdog under under- dog Ie lie is Little David going out to fight the big bad Goliath Goliath Goliath Go Go- of the professional poli poli- This is the significant difference between 48 and 52 Four years year ago that was Truman's Truman's Truman's Tru Tru- mans man's role From the viewpoint of popular psychology it was one of the reasons the President President President dent reversed the tide Now Kefauver has usurped that role and it is made to order for him He is in fact doing so well with it that he may be in a position position position po po- po- po to capture the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- I cratic nomination in spite of Truman and the professional I politicians That may seem like a pretty remote contingency at this point Yet if events continue continue continue con con- to move as they have in inthe inthe inthe the view of this observer it is not impossible Kefauver Sentiment In neighboring Iowa Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic county conventions have just been held In all but 16 out of 99 the regulars were in control and they voted for uninstructed delegates to Chi Chi- cago But a recapitulation by C. C C. C Clifton of the Des Moines Register of sentiment expressed expressed expressed ex ex- pressed in those 16 showed Kefauver Kefauver Kefauver Ke Ke- Ke- Ke fauver the favorite in seven Truman in six and Governor Adlai Stevenson in three As for Nebraska it appears to be unquestionably can As of today it t is fundamentalist fundamentalist fundamentalist funda funda- mentalist Republican which is isto isto isto to say Taft Republican After all Nebraska remained faithful faithful faithful faith faith- ful in 48 when some other farm states in the midwest went over to Truman The above judgments one hastily qualified in v vie i e w of what has happened in New Hampshire and Minnesota in inthis inthis inthis this uncertain year but the powerful organization support of Senator Hugh Butler is all behind Taft in this state and it is considered sufficient Ti Tunes Times s Not Bad This reporter fell into conversation conversation con con- with an Iowa farmer in the adjoining seat in the plane from Chicago He was returning returning returning re re- re- re turning from selling his cattle They hadn't brought the highest p price r i ice c e. e B Bit t they'd brought a fairly good price Times were not bad even though the corn crop had been off last fall Politics Well it was time for fora a change That was the way he lie summed it up A lot of people felt that But there were some who remembered what had happened in 31 and 32 He knew some Democrats who said they'd never change back to being Republicans and maybe risk losing everything they'd gained This last may well be as asit asit asit it was in 48 the X factor Profound changes have taken place in rural America more sweeping by far than most city people realize The Democrats take credit for those changes And a great many Republicans succeed in sounding whether they intend to or not as though all these changes had been iniquitous That is the basic basie handicap that the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican Party a minority party must overcome or it will wither away as other parties have ha withered away in the past |