Show series of C contradictions 0 marks political campaign by news analyst and commentator washington political currents and cross currents are running high wide and deep along tho the potomac these days the wave of popularity stirred up by station stassen supporters up porter is not pleasant tor for regular republicans to contemplate some of the non professionals however particularly those in the taft corner comer are arc very bitter about it not because they think thit that stassen will get in but because of the way he be has haa served to block the tatt taft efforts despite the fact that those efforts have been la belled rightly or wrongly futile from the beginning Dewey lle dont admit they are worrying bull I 1 talked to one of the tatt taft men recently what makes me tick sick he said Is the way the people who have done their best to break down tart taft are full of P praise toi for him h I 1 m now that they think he be Is beaten they describe his ahja efficiency his knowledge h 1 5 frankness his grasp firato of the subjects eels he discusses and they t talk a 1 lc a about b 0 u t stations I 1 vagueness vague and in ability to answer tafts charges and these he be wound up are the same people who have been shooting at tatt taft ever since be started his presidential campaign there Is something in what this man says you would be surprised how many liberals how many democrats mn even praise taft privately would really like to se see a him elected but either they cant quite come com out openly in till his favor or they take for granted he be cant win anyhow then there Is the treat great poop of republicans wh who are ro going to voto vote for or dewey but act ct as an it they were grilling their teeth in the process what have you got dewey I 1 asic k them some borne are vane vague others ethers say eay the new york governor la Is a strad adler an opportunist never comes out for or an issue until he sew sees a gallup poll an n tt it r i but I 1 suppose oppose hell win can he be since tho the baasen hurricane the old timers are talking a little differently ferent ly about dewey some of them who have predicted right along that dewey dewcy would win now rite are saying that stassen has undermined him on en thoroughly that now bewey has no more mora chance than toft taft and all the time the tide la Is rising but heros heres an acanter interesting thing way back in february some ome very canny observers i wore were saying that speaker joo joe martin of the house of representatives had the best chahda of anyone for the republican nomination in case of the expected tatt taft dewey deadlock at the tha lima ima many people were longi before we wa ginto be began to see mention of martin here and there then finally fenall insiders insider accepted him as pr probably ob ably the best bet of the tha aby ev era cral republican dark horses I 1 know I 1 could feel eel his popularity growing ks 1 I travelled around the country but then came the surprise mova when martin was waa credited with brIn bridgins gins about settlement of the coal miners mineral pension lowthe appointment of sen ben styles bridges of new hampshire as neutral trustee on the pension board with john lewis and ezra van horn and the agreen agreement tent that was reached between rind anil lewis at first ant the settlement put martin in a favorable light with tho the public then mien some of the conservative who hato hat lewis lewia expressed their disapproval there were hints ot of a deal that had been reached between bridget bridges and lewis before bridges was appointed democrats charged that martin wa was poll ticking horn representing the operators era tra tors appealed to the th courts to declare the pension agreement invalid n f nt stock dropped and the old litner finers began to say lay his hi chances forthe or the presidential nomination were slim not so 80 much because of tho the pension deal itself but paradoxical leand ly and this is ii ono one of the tha accepted paradoxes of politics became his intervention in the low was taken as in public avowal of his candidacy martin ceased to be a dark horse andas andi as a light horse he considered nearly os as much of a favor ite ile tho paradox applies to senator Vanden berc the michigan ten sen ator constantly cousta nUy and consistently has disavowed any ny desire or la in of being ft a candidate for the republican nomination 1 if I so BO cording codding to this his paradoxical political rul the say ay he bo thrust into la tilt limelight till his cause would suffer too at this writing seems to staad a as the no I 1 bet however claim that hat this paradox Is ell all old hit hat that times time and thinking have chi changed ged one of the first arst bla black ck which the republican old guard checked against was wai tho the fact that b he came caina right out as aa a candidate way ahead of optime ott tet time the V traditional onil thins thing Is to b be oh so 19 coy about it but some observers observer feel as newsweek magazine expressed it tome omi time ago S assens forthright quest for votes ma may end much of the traditional coyness of aspi aspirants in the future its ita thought that more candidates will frankly announce their intentions well in advance of election well maybe there is 1 plenty of old una line resentment against stassen St aisen not only because he began an open campaign so 0 o early but also because of the efficient powerful highly organized end and aggressive machine he has built up A right wing rep republican publican I 1 spoke poke to recently teemed seemed especially resentful grumbling about the big money backing minnesotan Min ex governor and the now mew york banking interests that wanted in fm P senator taft was reported 4 to BO furious over ever Bt blen assens invasion yston Jn c of ohio that li it w was thought that he ha might forget his rivalry with dewey and throw his bis support to the ho now new yorker earlier la in we the convention it if the deadlock I 1 was war certain AU ali this thil talk AGAINST candidates Is interesting psychologically you always hear far more reasons reason for voting AGAINST a candidate than you hear for voting FOR one its a very good thing that no candidate Is ever quite so bad es as his opponents claim he Is otherwise the government would jail fall apart regularly every four years yeara 0 monoog D doctrine 0 arine Is reactivated on charles street in the sleepy little town of ct fredericksburg va in the first floor office of a story and a half brick house you can ste see it if you obey the parking signs and stop there a beautiful brassbound brass bound mahogany desk artistic handiwork of the french cabinet makers ot of the early century it Is au an historic piece of turo lure for on its surface years ago there was signed a document which reactivated today becomes sit at once the challenge and the hope of free men throughout the world that desk carefully carried across the sons as a precious heirloom found its way into the great empty rooms of the white house newly after tho the destructive destruct tva tiro fire set net by an enemy torch in tho the war ol 01 1013 1812 turn back the pages to december of the tha year rear 1823 at this desk sits fits A man in a stiffly starched stock ills broad forehead la Is wrinkled with thought ills wide eyes look down at the document he la Is about to sign it li is his message to the lath congress of the united states but it embodies the spirit and is couched in the phrases which his sors have used before him ting sing the intent and tho the obligations of tho the young republic of which he james monroe is the 0 president two years before the czar of all the russians had bad uttered a ukase that no foreigner roust must approach within IDO miles of the american coastline north of the blat parallel russia then had a firm foothold on the northwestern of the western hemisphere the iron cur tain har had descended plus ca change plus ca resta rest lax meme chasel we could not view any interpol 1 altton I tion for the purpose of ong them the free countries of the americast america Ameri casl by any european power in any other light than us as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward owned tho the united states so one hundred and twenty five flye years pass today tho the united states in a 4 world that has shrunk until md scow Is nearer to washington than boston t on was in MOnro cs time redell cates its resources to help tree free agles theoples tee oples to maintain their tree free institutions tui ons and their national Inte integrity pity against aggressive movements that upon them totalitarian regimes the words are tru mans man but the spirit Is the same ame as an that breathed in fit the monroe doctrine america carries on 0 polysyllabically john L lewis and gen douglas macarthur MacAri hur have something in common perhaps lewt lewis should run as a ma macarthur carthurn cAr thurs vice president think of nil all the lo 10 sonorous Dono roua five syllable wora state they could get out in president Lincol ns time most of the speeches were made in the open air without benefit of public address system or microphone now all you really need is a few friends friend who can make them themselves selve s heard ta in a I 1 smoke moke tilled room i |