Show 1948 campaign Lampa ign maneuvers started top republicans Republic aDs angling for presidential candidacy 1 by news analyst and commentator bahin washington more than two weeks before con congress r L adjourned adlour adjourned ned the last bit of fight went out of it and it I 1 looked oo 00 1 d ve very ry muc much as though dijt would glide rapidly but smoothly to an unperturbed bed finish then tho the missouri scandal raised its ugly head sen james P xem kern rep mo insisted that ahai he was going to present his resolution S res to investigate the justice departments handling of the alleged kansas city vote frauds in 1848 1946 tills this despite the fact that the judiciary commit i tee of the senate already had decided against such a probe IQ me republicans this inis was dy no means an unpleasant dish to have on the ire fire I 1 ford or they intend to make it one of the pieces do de resistance si price of tile the campaign but they want to start it cooking before adjournment journ ment for they realized that while too man many y cooks books cant spoil tills this broth it m might 6 t make everybody lato late for 11 baukhage dinner dinner back home the democrats of course were set to fight it and some gome of the republicans public ans rather than prolong the battle wanted to forget it for tho the present it be entirely neglected ted fori fot despite violent digg digging ingon on the part of 0 tho the Ile republican publican and democratic national committees no real ly luscious campaign issue hasteen has been unearthed the issue will be used betit but it cannot be depended upon in a major weapon in tho the battle of 1048 at present the republicans although they are ic enough concerning the final victory renuto that it cannot be achieved without same some heavy artillery capable of smil smashing shing the democratic defensive the strongest I 1 feature of which to io el r date I 1 Is the poll boutho the poll that showed in injury july that harry truman still had 0 i 54 64 per cent lio popular pular rity A that Is why chya a lot of politicians on an Y capitol hill are saying well win will u with dewey dewcy not just well win be surprised to see hw how many good democrats turn sadly i away without replying to the re 14 pub ll 10 6 bon boast st there Is one group 0 course which Is insisting stubbornly well win with teft they may admit it you put them in a corner that they cant win with taft now because of the positive evidence reflected in the truman poll pol and tho the negative evidence revealed in tho the taft poll dut but they say taft started to campaign when lie he does docs hell change all that how about warren of california toward whom those who like neither taft batts conservatism nor stas liberalism nor deleys deweys are looking hopefully well there their is one story that warren c rif possibly swing owing the no I 1 place and that he want the no 2 job jobi i that what he does want Is the attorney generalship at this writing nobody Is afraid of 0 the formation of a third party by ho he left wingers who would follow wallace in the hope of building him lip for 1982 1952 or merely to spite overy everybody body else As to a revenge labor vote cotef for 0 r the taft tad hartley act taft tails friends ore are going to insist that ho he was the mart man who saved it from being a really vicious anti labor weapon shortly after the veto was overridden ile he indicated that the clauses I 1 which muzzle the aho labor press and P prevents r events them from expressing their political views should be amputated jn n tact fact some people who are much farther to the left than taft in both parties insist that this bill la Is going to loso lose its terrors with time that familiarity will bring not contempt but the realization that it may bo be used by both manage ment men tand and labor to their advantage just as tho the railway labor act much belabored in its early days eventually became a useful all allaround around gad get meanwhile the white louse house contingent tin gont ilas has not hot been heard humming costia goodbye |