Show many h olit iccil thrills seen in 1 democrats GOP unafraid of wallace party threat by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator washington from the way things look to the news men whose beat stretches along that historic mile and an eighth from capitol hill to the white house politics in 1948 is going to be a rodeo plenty of excitement for the audience a lot of hard riding and tough spills for the performers at this writing nobody s down hearted at the last rodeo I 1 attended there was a very tunny funny tunny funny man who fell off horses and rode brahman backwards and made wisecracks over the loudspeaker system it was a very up to date rodeo not more than 2 miles from where the deer and the antelope play there were also a number of very feryo 0 good very earnest contestants who had learned their bucking and breaking a long ways from a drugstore or a hollywood s set e t the funny man himself was no tenderfoot when it came to fork ing a bronc but once in a while he got in the way of the real per formers S since I 1 n c e they t nd rid ing for glory baukhage alone the purses were fairly heavy he incurred some displeasure from the regulars if not from the spectators this year the political field will take on a similar appearance the owner of one of the sombreros tossed into the arena in december is going to cause considerable con cern to the rest I 1 refer of course to hard rid ing hank the iowa whirlwind who is no more afraid to ride bareback bare back than he is to ride bear back he ile isn t so bad either with the vocal lariat when it comes to throwing as well as roping the bull As the contend ers size up the situation with the aid of a lot of wishful thinking mr wallace is going to get in everybody s way but theirs certainly there is no gloom ebud ing from the white house sure said the president to us at a recent press radio conference the demo brats were gong go ng to have a happy new year he already was and stretching back for a long time the presidential news conferences have TT almost bubbled once in a while mr truman would jerk a little when the reportorial report onal needle hit a political nerve but for the most part these meetings where the questions be come sharper and sharper as the ides of november 48 approach have been a feast of wit and a flow of soul and there is no moaning at the bars where other democrats gather wallace will drive all the liberals to active support of the democrats they 11 tell you he will shear away the lunatic fringe of democratic support drain the party of the last tint of that which might incarnadine its record will garner the middle of the readers who will feel less danger of contaminating their bal lots with a new cealish radicalism it may mean mr tatt taft may be mr truman s opponent and an easier battle can bei fought and won against taft say the democrats than against other presidential hope fuls who might be better hcan vote getters and so on you ve heard the story before from many optimistic lips it if the democratic tepee ex udes joy the taft wi wigwam u shakes with cheery mirth gleea feea sons are obvious in a nutshell republicans say the issue Is left and right the left is split and so the rooster crows atrium without waiting for november daun dain lihew se each hopeful favorite son finds something to cheer him but the canny observers are mg ing no bets yet and those who had the r money down have had to do very little heda ng there is only one thing certain and that is its it s go ng to be a grand show A |