| Show GRASSROOTS Truman and Taft Will Be Opponents in Election By Wright A. Patterson I n T THE TIME this is written It I entirely safe to name the candidates for the presidency on both Democratic and Republican tickets In the political race of Truman has not definitely aid that he will seek hot has so broadly Intimated that he proposes to do that there can be no chance of a miss in naming him sa the Democratic His Is the last chance any one will have of being named for the Job for more than two The new law providing for a two term limit specifically exempts the which In this case Is Harry S. Whether he is elected or he can at least have the glory of being the nominee of his party for a third The President will start bit cam with an advantage of some nine million representing the of government their relatives end With such an advantage be believes be can and It does represent a big handicap lor the Republicans to Many Republican who have In the past figured that Senator Taft was not vote did not have popular and did have organized labor against changed their opinions on both points following the last election In when Taft carried the state in his fight for reelection ty a majority of better than It proved to the doubting of his party that the senator could attract and that union labor leaders did not control the union labor They want a candidate for 1952 who will not take success for but will fight for the needed The limited demand for has largely petered out because the general has not made any announcement ol his political or any desire for the Had he done these by this time the result might still be much In In his campaign it is reasonably expected that Senator Tuft will have the enthusiastic backing of Mac-Arthur As a participant tn the campaign on the Republican MacArthur will do much to offset that nine million vote handicap Taft must overcome to Taft is not the type to be and count the votes before they are as did Regardless ol straw or the opinions ol political be will figure be can lose up to the counting of the voles next Taft will stand for the maintenance of our free enterprise ne Is opposed to all forms of he believes in helping those ho are but he does not In making us a nation of Indigents by the voting of indiscriminate doles to all who are willing to His platform will undoubtedly embrace those things he considers as of value to the nation as a and not only those of one or more It in no be a platform that has resulted in Republican defeat In the last three The 1952 campaign will be a real political It will not be lost because of a lay-down on either but it will not be won until the votes have been We need airplanes to wipe out the Communist nests in but the planes we need have not yet been It Is said the French Communists do not like We hope Stalin and his compatriots in Moscow do not like him tor the same MacArthur and his plea for Americanism will largely determine who will be Inaugurated as President In Let us hop the Du-pone are successful In perfecting an Cheer It could be worse Not all of the less than for whom you have provided government even those from are Some of them a-e legally and morally even though |
