Show cul IP ros oppose stassen former minnesota governor Is playing lone wolf role by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator this is the third of a senes series on the men most talked about as candidates for the republican presidential nomination washington when the bakers were down in washing ton sweating out a grain conservation program for their in austry my friend from minnesota harry W who is what the personal column calls a frequent visitor in the capital gave a little luncheon for his colleagues and some pres and radio men we had finished eating and were gathered around to listen to the bak ers troubles when suddenly the door opened and pounds of blond smil ing political potentiality burst upon us our host shouted a happy hello harold then turned and an bounced gentlemen the next pres dent of the united states I 1 daresay most minnesota laicans will say aye to that what the rest of the country says is awaited with interest by the candi date I 1 suppose I 1 have had 50 people ask me about harold stassen why chasn t stassen a chance they query most observers seem to agree that if it he has a chance it s a pretty slim one to date the reason is al ways the same the professional politicians don t want him not because he s a political poh unknown he could hardly be called that sure he took the job of county chairman at the age of 21 he was elected governor of mm min baukhage desota three tunes times could have been senator from that state had he wanted the job ob in his case it s not so much that he be s a newcomer as it is the way he came up that way is c of his whole campaign and two words describe it lone wolf the situation favored stassen when he forced his way into the gubernatorial race in 1938 mm min desota was in a bad way there was vandalism and corruption and the farmer labor part parts which had held a stiff grip on the state was disintegrating through its own weakness and graft stassen entered the race against the wishes of the republican old guard but be he eventually forced them to help him to some degree it was largely his own efforts how ever that elected him in other words he butted into the governorship according to old guard critics others say he be did it merely as a step to the presidency and that it was part of his over ng ambition the same thing they say about governor dewey of new york but the old guard fears stassen s type of ambition more than dewey s they fear it because they feel that should stassen be come president he might build up a strong personal following and thus get a stranglehold on the lican party conventional candidates don t commit themselves too heavily his supporters claim that stassen is a middle of the reader a little to the left but it is not too much his liber u K A h HAROLD STASSEN does he have a chance aliby to which the politicians object I 1 doubt if any practical politician expects us to turn back the clock but in h s highly unorthodox cam pa ng stassen has violated two rules one by announcing him himself self early in the present campaign agn today he is the only official can difate for the presidential nomi nation two he has made and he repeats sharp criticism of the re publican program aa As roscoe drummond of the chr st an science mon tor puts it it if they pick him to r de the ele they 11 have to get a new elephant certa aly stassen has hinted this was necessary when he said the republican program must be more constructive more dy cly camic he doesn doean t consult with any body else when he announces how to make it so that s part of the lone wolf complex he comes up from the soil with a dirt farmer father he worked his way through college he has a good mil tary record as deputy chief of staff to admiral halsey he is is 1 and taller than taft a sandy haired slow spoken and del berate six footer X T wont fight this year accord ng to fed cred ble authority a secret poll was taken by republican senators as to their informal off the record arence for a presidential candidate sen arthur hend ick of mich gan won it in U e same month the senator made a statement in a nat onal magazine in which he sa d he thought it was ww aas er to run for pres dent than not to run he ex pla ned how biffi cult it was to deny that one is a candi date once the story got started s t a r t e d he mentioned the ques tion of the draft and expressed an y opinion similar to that of roy roberts of the kansas city star in connect tion with gen dwight eisenhower Elsen hower namely that there had never been a real draft in his day vanden berg sa d that of course no man would refuse the nomination if it were handed to bun him as an accod fact I 1 e concluded his remarks with this statement I 1 a am not a cand date I 1 do not expect or wish to be a candidate I 1 shall seek no convention delegates or approve of others in this behalf I 1 think my place of service is filling out my tenure in the sen ate few men s stature has increased as s has as a result of his participation in international at af fairs I 1 think it is fair to say that not only made non partisan foreign policy poss ble but that his efforts in carrying out the non partisan principle made a uni fled foreign policy itself possible A part of s influx ence in the field of foreign af fairs is due to the act fact that he has the enthusiasm of a con vert he ile was once rankly frankly an isolationist today he has con averted many others and I 1 believe that no single man has done more than he to break brea k down the provincial attitude especially in the Midd lewest which before world war 11 II prevented america from taking leadership in world affairs leadership which might have postponed if not entirely pre vented the war I 1 do not believe that he is actually eliminated from the nomination but we can be certain he will not fight for the job he lie had the high vote at the republican convention of 1940 1940 when the willkie blitz struck s support of bi parti san policy doesn doean t mean that he gives a blank check to the adminis he favors the marshall plan and aid to greece and turkey but he refused to recognize that aid as the truman doctrine insisting it was not a doctrine at all |