Show Series of Contradictions Marks Political Campaign By fly y Nt News tc Analyst and ami Commentator w 4 W WASHINGTON Political currents and cross currents are arc running high wide and deep along the tho Potomac these days The wave of popularity up by Stassen supporter is fa not riot pleasant pleas ant for regular Republicans to contemplate Some of ot the professionals non however particularly those thoe in the Taft corner are very bitter about It it not because they think that that Stassen will wili get In but because of the way waybe he be has hu served to block the Taft efforts efforts despite despite the fact that those efforts eUort have been labelled rightly or wrongly futile from the beginning dont don't admit they are worrying butt but I 1 talked to one of the Taft men recently What makes me sick he said is ls the way the people who have done their best to break down Taft are full of praise for h him I m now that the they y think he ha is II beaten They describe his bis efficiency cien cy his knowledge ii his hi I I frankness his grasp of the subjects sub he discusses discuss e. e p And they tal talk k ka a about b o 0 u t Stassen's Stassen A vagueness and In In- ability to answer Tall Tails charges And these he wound up are the thea same a me people who have been een shooting shoot shoot- ing trig at Taft ever since Ince he started his hi presidential campaign There is something In what this man says ar You would be surprised how bow many liberals liberala how many Democrats Democrats Dem Dam even evjen praise Taft privately would really like to see ee him elected but either they cant can't quite corns come out openly in his hll favor lavor or they take for granted he cant can't win anyhow Then there Is I. tho the great greal real group of 01 Republicans who are re going to vote voto for lor Dewey but bat act ael as a. U If they ther were gritting their teeth In the process What Vhal have you yon got rol against Dewey Dewer I 1 ask uk them some Come are vague arue others other say the tho New York governor Is a strad din dier an opportunist never comes out ont for an Issue until he sees ee ee a a Gallup poll poU on It but I 1 suppose hell he'll win win Can he Since the Stassen hurricane the tho are talking a little differently dif about Dewey Some of them who have predicted right along that Dewey would win now are saying that tha t Stassen has undermined him so thoroughly that now Dewey has n nomore no more chance than Taft Tatt And all aU the time the tide is II rising But Dut here's heres an interesting Inter inter- Interesting esting thing Way back In February February February ary some ome very canny observers were saying that Speaker Joe Martin Martin Mar tin of ot the house of representatives had bad the best chance of anyone for forthe tho the Republican presidential nomination nomination nomina nomina- tion in case of the expected Taft- Taft Dewey deadlock At the time Ume many people were surprised at that opinion But Dut it wasn't long before we began to see ee mention of ot Martin here and there Th Then ID finally Insiders accepted him himas 4 as probably the best beat bet of the several sev eral cral Republican dark horses horse I know 1 could feel leel his hi popularity growing is at I travelled around the countr country lint Bat th then n came the tho move when Martin was wa credited with bringing about settlement of 01 the coal miners' miners pen pension Ion row the row the appointment of 01 Sen Ben Styles Bridges of 01 New Hampshire as neutral trustee on the pension board with John Lewis Lewia and lira Ezra Van Horn Dom and the agreement that was we reached between Bridges and end Lewis At first the settlement put Martin In a favorable light with the pub 1 lie Uc Then some ome of 01 the conservative Republicans who hate Lewis expressed ex cx- pressed their disapproval There were hints hint of a deal that bad had been reached between Bridges Bridge and Lewis before Bridges Bridge was appointed Dem Dam charged that Martin was wai poll poli ticking Horn representing the th operators op op- op arMors appealed to the courts to declare the pension agreement in In- n valid lid Martins Martin's stock tock dropped And the began belan to say y his hi chances chancel for tor the presidential nomination were slim Not Noto so much because of ot the pension deal Itself but paradoxically paradoxical paradoxical- ly and ly-and and this thi II is one of ot the accepted paradoxes ot of politics because his hi Intervention in 10 the row was 1011 taken IIa as II asa asa a public avowal of his hi candidacy Martin Mrtin ceased to be b a dark horse and as I a light horse hors he h. wasn't wasat considered con con- nearly as II much of a favor ftc ite The Th x applies to Senator The ne Michigan senator see sen ator constantly end and consistently has hel disavowed any de desir lr u er t In Intention In Do of 01 being belag a candidate for lor forthe forthe the Republics Republican nomination If U ac 10 ao- ao according cording t to I. this thIa paradoxical po po- po political rule the say 81 b h. h i were ere thrust Into the Um his hi cause caDle would suffer toe to At A this writing seems eem la 10 laland 0 stand land as a. the lbs No I 1 bet however claim that this We paradox Is III ill all old bat hat that times Um and political thinking have bavo changed On One of the first fitt black marks which the lb Republican cli guard ard checked against raint Stassen Stallen was wai the fact act that b he be came cam right out as AI s a I candidate way ahead shead of time The traditional thing Is III to b. b oh to 10 o coy 01 a bout about it But Dut some somo observers feel leel as 81 News New Newsweek I I week magazine expressed it some sometime sometime time ago Stassen forthright quest for lor votes may end much of the traditional traditional coyness of 01 aspirants aspirant In the future its it's thought that more candidates candidates can can- will frankly announce their intentions well In advance of elec dec tion Well maybe There is plenty of 01 old-line old resentment resent ment against Stassen not only because because be be- cause he began beian an open campaign so 0 early but also because of the efficient powerful organized highly and aggressive machine he ne has nas built up A right wing Republican I 1 spoke poke to recently seemed especially especial ly 17 resentful grumbling about the big money backing Minnesota's Minnesota governor ex-governor and the New York banking Interests that wanted in Senator Taft Tart was reported so furious over Stassen's Invasion of 01 Ohio that tha It U was thought that thai he be might forget forret his Wa rivalry with Dewey and throw his bis support to 0 the New Yorker earlier In the convention If It the deadlock was wa certain AU this thI talk AGAINST candidates is interesting psychologically You alwa always hear far lar more reasons rea roe sons eons for voting AGAINST a candidate candidate candi candi- date than you hear for lor voting FORone FOR one Its It's a very good thing that no candidate is 11 ever quite quit so ao bad as II his opponents claim he is Otherwise Otherwise Otherwise Other Other- wise the government would fall laU apart regularly every four lour years S I C Monroe Doctrine It Is Reactivated On Charles street in the sleepy little town of ot Fredericksburg Va In the first floor office oUke of a story tory i and half brick house you can see se if It you obey the parking signs Igns and stop there a beautiful brass bound mahogany desk artistic handiwork of ot the French cabinet makers of the early century It Is an historic piece of ot furniture fund furni ture lure for on its surface years yeara ago aro there was signed a document which reactivated today oday becomes at a once the challenge and end the hope of ot free Iree men throughout the world That desk carefully carried across the seas as a precious heirloom found it Us way into the great empty rooms room of 01 the White House newly newly- rebuilt after the destructive fire set by an enemy torch in the War of ot 1812 Turn back the pages to December of 01 the year rear 1823 At this desk sits itt sitsa a man In a stiffly starched stock Ills JIls broad forehead II Is wrinkled with thought III Ills wide eyes look down at atthe atthe the document he is about to sign Ign It Is Ii his hll message to the congress con con- gress gross of the United States but It j embodies the spirit and is couched in the phrases phrase which his 1 son sors have havo used before him 1 sing ling the Intent and the obligations of 01 the young republic of 01 which he h. he I James Monroe is I. the President I Two years before the Czar of all i the Russians had uttered a ukase I that no foreigner must approach within miles of the American coastline north of ot the parallel Russia then had a firm foothold on the northwestern of ot the I western hemisphere The Th Iron curlaIn curtain cur- cur j j I tain laIn had descended Plus Plu ca change chanie plus ca reste lax meme memo chose osel I We Ve could not DO view any Interposition interposition for tor the purpose of 01 oppressing oppre oppressing a sing them the the free tree countries ef of the Americas America by bl any European power In iy other other tight light than then as a. the manifestation of 01 an unfriendly ly 11 disposition toward the United States One hundred and twenty five years yeara pass Today the United States State In a world that has ha shrunk until Moscow Is Ii nearer to Washington than Boston BOIton Bos Bos- ton was In Monroes Monroe's time rates cates Its resource resources to help free tree peoples to maintain their free tree intI and the their national sl integrity against aggressive movement movements that seek eek to Impose upon them totalitarIan total tarlan regimes The Th words ord are President Zen Ira mans man's bat at the tho spirit Is Ii the same ame aa as that thai breathed In the Monroe doctrine America carries on John L L. L Lewis Lom and Gen Ceo Douglas MacArthur have something in common Perhaps Lewis should hould run as II MacArthurs MacArthur's Tic vie president Think of ot all an the sonorous f t 1 I v e syllable state statements ments they could get out I In President Lincoln's time most ot of the speeches were mad made lit In the open ir iii- lr without benefit nelU of ci public address system or microphone Now sli IU U you TOU really need Is a few lew friends who can nn make themselves heard beard In in a tilled smoke d room |