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Show Ip Leaders Intrigue Press tl! Election Prospects W By BAUKHAGE ifl V".i Analyst and Commentator, 1,1616 Eye Street, N.W.. (Tjshington. D. C. T0N, I). C - This Washington and else-Jloss else-Jloss more heat than J, , trite phrase, I know. iproPos .. were debating selective service and I hasten to explain that former Senator (now Supreme court justice) just-ice) Burton and I had the unpopular unpopu-lar side. Anyhow, Brown (may-the-best-man-win) won. Reece and Brown didn't talk on-the-record at the luncheon but I have a good idea of how things looked to the Republicans at thai congenial gathering ol radio folk. If the elections were held as ol that moment, they claimed, the Re publicans would win a majority ol seats in the house of representatives and would make very heavy inroads on the Democratic majority in the senate. Since then many of the primary pri-mary battles have been fought and I'll report the reactions later Gallup Poll Heartens GOP In the first place I understand that the Republicans took considerable satisfaction in the Gallup poll which showed that, excluding the one-party one-party Democratic states, 46 per cent of the persons interviewed showed a Democratic preference and 54 per cent a Republican preference. pref-erence. The GOP leaders believed they had a good, fighting chance to win 15 to 17 senatorial seats from their opponents. In New York, they say Governor Dewey's good record and the campaign he is planning ought to pull in a Republican senator (they won't say whom). They be-j lieve Democratic Senator Mead will have to run for the governorship. They felt they had a chance in Delaware and West Virginia and that if the ballots were cast at that mo. ! ment they would win in Mis souri (I'm still talking about the Ings they did which didn't J with their consciences. v the voice of the vote-ieard vote-ieard in the land. )d newspaper correspond-being correspond-being courted by both arties. For example, re-crowd re-crowd ol radio folk was mcheon-table look at the g machinery behind the i lines. Our hosts were i Chairman Carroll B. me end of the table, and i Campaign Manager Brown at the other. (A unt into Democratic ter-be ter-be reported In a future a slight, greying, quiet-o quiet-o whose Tennessee ac-nds ac-nds one occasionally of I Pepper in one of Claude's i ical moments if you can m in one. (Personal confes- ' like Pepper and Reece both to a lot of people who would Irst to say, "the views of lotables do not NECES-ajree NECES-ajree with those of the little presumptuous of me to Reece as "greying" be-t be-t year 1839 had to stretch m January to December to ime-gap between my birth-bxis. birth-bxis. He has taught in almost academic institutions as I tiiflllv attended Hp wns a i commander in World War as I never rose above the station of shavetail, and b;s live decorations are the :shed Service Cross, the ithed Service Medal and fie Heart. He was cited for by a marshal, three gen-d gen-d a colonel. ps the same qualities which fee his decorations qualified his present job. He cer-nesn't cer-nesn't lack assurance even ot'sn't rattle sabers in exit. ex-it. are not talking about We are talking about his ' s out on the hustings, alius al-ius trip, which will take him wst as Seattle and as far s Georgia, is mildly camou-s camou-s a vacation. Anyhow Mrs. ss Reece are going along, ft of the time will be spent sort in the Rockies, topping Reece here in the wnere nobody votes, but lot of writers and talkers "IB be Clarence Brown, tative from the Seventh dis-Wo, dis-Wo, a state which might (i a latter-day mother of 1 and which right now is hopefully over the patterns !rrty gowns. B and Reece complement very well. Reece is signified, soft-spoken. Brown ' loud enough to be heard osck row without using the stert, and hail-fellow-well-s "campaign manager" he I'd sweat it out (that is lit-m lit-m the rest of the Washing-ho Washing-ho don't vacate in the I ( a fellow feeling for Rep-liv Rep-liv Brown, tinged perhaps I natural deference a relays re-lays has for a publisher. Publishes several country P (that's the way he put P in the congressional di-whereas di-whereas I merely write '"l" besides this one. Also wee more children than I He and I once met on the Platform, and while 1 "tar-ally never admit that Resent the best 'argument, ncede somewhat grudging-, grudging-, rcwr's resounding oratory most applause. We Carroll B. Reeec and Rep. Brown senatorial race). They called Montana Mon-tana and Washington probabilitiei rather than mere possibilities. O'Mahoney knows he has a fight, they say, and they believe the Republican Re-publican candidate, John Henderson, Hender-son, has a chance against the popular popu-lar gentleman from Wyoming. I heard a lot of talk, too, about the interesting possibility in Connecticut Con-necticut where Repr. Clare Luce was expected to oppose former OPA Administrator Chester Bowles, which would be a colorful affair with all the technical skill of her publisher husband, and all the skill of an advertising man, Mr. Bowles, pitted against each other. As to the house of representatives, Republican machinery has been grinding in at least 75 districts. O' Kentuck Bloody Battleground Kentucky was catalogued as still a dark and bloody battleground. At the time of the luncheon. Representative Repre-sentative May's followers seemed to feel, according to press reports, that he was a martyr. If something should come out to change their minds on that score, he might go down to defeat. And we are reminded re-minded that, as one Republican put it: "every 20 years or so Kentucky Ken-tucky changes its mind." Other debatable districts were listed in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Delaware, Del-aware, Maryland, West Virginia and New York. What the Republicans seem to count on most is the natural reaction, re-action, "throw the rascals out-theory out-theory which Americans always have reverted to after so long a period pe-riod of any party's incumbency. In addition, say the GOPund ts, there are the usual mistakes of the party in power which result in the well known attitude of one of Clarence Clar-ence Brown's constituents who told him: ,l . , don't know who I'm FUR, but I know durned well who I'm AGIN " , . The Republicans think they have discovered a trend away from centralized cen-tralized government which may turn the voters against the administration admin-istration and into Republican pas-tures. pas-tures. 1 1 |