Show Senator Tafts Taft's Strategy SEN EN ROBERT TAFT w worried 0 r r 1 e d about his poor showing in the thc presidential polls has been consulting consult consult- ing with professional opinion re re- re- re searchers Their advice has been that he become known as a liberal liberal liberal lib eral One of Tafts Taft's advisers Is Dr Claude E. E Robinson of Princeton N. N J. J president of Opinion Research corporation who has collected opinions opinions opinions ions on Taft from all over the coun coun- try You are so busy with the practical practical side of government he told the senator that you have lost sight of the fact that people think in terms of goals You should start letting people know that you are aren sn In n the thc side of the Lord n He lle suggested that Taft Tart reveal himself In Jn his true truc role as a liberal and stress his stand for thc the public publio good that he bc start by examining ex e. the tho question of what is a liberal and defining it as one who believes in liberty and higher living living living liv- liv ing standards The strat strategy gy then thenis is to show that Taft Tart possesses the practical sense to achieve these goals Dr Robinson warned that the public public pub pub- lic lie still is fearful that the Republican Republican lican party represents reaction and the vested interests He quoted a n atypical atypical typical opinion from Iron his surveys that tha t no poor man should be a Re Re- publican The best way to combat this he recommended is to set up goals geals and catch the eye o of the thc common common cornmon com corn mon man Taft could bid for leadership leadership leadership leader leader- ship of the true revolutionary movement the revolution which started July 4 4 1776 advised Dr Robinson It was shortly after af r consulting with Dr Robinson that Taft came out with his political new look starting off oU with a speech What Is a Liberal It C S S CIO cia ill V Draft Eisenhower TWO POLITICAL PHENOMENA are taking place simultaneously Inthe Inthe in inthe the nation President Truman is moving heaven and earth to secure his own but with his Gallup poll rating continuing to drop Meanwhile General Eisenhower Eisen Elsen- hower continues to discourage his nomination but with his popularity continuing to increase I A lot of interesting backstage figures are nrc behind Eisenhower one of them being CIO ClO President Philip Murray Murray l has sent out word to every CIO ClO steelworkers steelwork steelwork- i ers local suggesting resolutions for fora I Ia a draft Eisenhower movement The steelworkers convention will go on record unanimously asking Eisenhower to run and md a similar movement already Is under way Inmost in inmost inmost most other CIO dO n unions Murray also held an important secret conference in Pittsburgh with Illinois Democratic Boss Jack Ar- Ar vey Arvey has been drafted by Illinois Democrats to run their political political political po po- po- po fortunes until after the presidential presidential elections and he agreed with Murray that the Democratic party's hope lay in nominating Eisenhower Although not talking much Arvey has been a very busy beaver He was principally responsible for the violent Truman anti-Truman demonstration at the California Jefferson Day dinner dinner din din- ner ncr when Mr Truman was booed so vigorously that Chairman J. J Howard Howard How How- ard McGrath almost quit talking Also active in the draft dratt er cr drive is former farmer Roosevelt labor adviser Anna Rosenberg Mrs Rosenberg is a close friend of Elsen Elsen- hower also of Phil Murray George Allen AlIen Mrs Roosevelt the lers as well as many of the New ex-New I Dealers Eisenhower's supporters are ignoring ignoring ing lug all of the generals general's protests about his candidacy They're convinced convinced con con- vinced that if a genuine draft movement movement movement move move- ment develops he will accept the thc nomina nomination tion Sullivans Sullivan's Resignation RESIGNATION OF GAEL LIV LIVAN AN from the Democratic national national national na na- na- na committee was inevitable Only a few insiders knew It but Mr Truman hated him barred him from the White House Sullivan always was getting Inthe In Inthe the thc Presidents President's hair fighting on Palestine for labor against car car- he Ills His departure means thinks the fight right on these things Is hopeless Sullivan worked day and night for forthe forthe forthe the administration led the life of a 1 monk socially studied like a schoolboy schoolboy schoolboy school school- I I wheels make government boy to I turn more smoothly He was nn an favorite being forced on Mr I Truman by Bol Hannegan It has secret that Sullivan never been a Douglas man When was a Justice named assistant postmaster general he even insisted that Justice Douglas Douglas Douglas Doug Doug- las swear him in When the Ed Pauley grain lation investigation started Mr Truman called Sullivan to the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse in the House asked him If IL he be was market Mr President replied Sullivan Sulli flatter Hatter me Ive I've never you van had a dime besides my salary since Ive I've been in politics |