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Show ACROSS THE DESK....... SO FEW WEEKLY newspaper commented editorially on the New Hampshire primary in their Thuriday end Friday editions following fol-lowing the election it has been difficult dif-ficult to obtain a cross section of rural thinking on the subject. Perhaps Per-haps the country editors didn't have time to write their editorials, or it could be they wanted a little more time to digest the results. Whatever the reason, the comments were few and far between. Two papers, however, in widely separated sections of the nation, had this to say: Honlton Pioneer Times, Houlton Maine: "How you like the result of the voting in the nation's first presidential primary, held Tuesday Tues-day in New Hampshire, probably depends on whom you are supporting. support-ing. "To thi supporters of Gtn. Eisenhower, bis clean sweep of the entire 14 delegates and bis jour-to-three victory in the popularity popu-larity balloting is taken as a significant sig-nificant sign that greatly enhances en-hances their candidate's chances and will certainly put their campaign cam-paign into high gear. "It is a little bit difficult to accept ac-cept Taft's wry comment that he had hoped to do better and Brewster's Brew-ster's observation that It was the Republican machine that beat his man in New Hampshire. Regardless Regard-less of who administered the shellacking, shel-lacking, it was done in the face of one of the most spirited campaigns ever seen in a primary election in the Granite State and Mr. Taft certainly did everything within his power to win."" Out West ; The Chlekasha Star, Chickaihs, Okie.: "Forty years ago It was an axiom In politics, 'As Maine goes so goes the nation,' but that has been changed In 1852 to, 'As goes New Hampshire so goes the nomination.' "The victory of Eisenhower In the snow-bound New England state is an omen that portends a sweep for the general is the nation at large. Senator Taft made the political polit-ical mistake of his life in entering the New Hampshire primary. He had intended to stay out but bis friends persuaded him to enter and he made probably the most intensive inten-sive campaign ever made by a presidential candidate in any state. . . . " Eisenhower, two thousand miles away, could defeat Taft on the ground himself in small state, what hope has the Ohio senator sen-ator in the wide open places of Texas and Iowa? The vote In New Hampshire portends an Eisenhower Ei-senhower sweep that will probably prob-ably give the general the Republican Repub-lican nomination on the second or third ballot at the Chicago con- ! vention. "The folks like Ike and they expressed ex-pressed their preference in no un-certain un-certain terms In the first presidential presi-dential primary .in the nation. "The result In New Hampshire that pleased folks of goodwill most was the defeat of Truman by Senator Sen-ator Kefauver. President Truman said a few weeks ago that presidential presi-dential primaries are 'eye wash', but it looks now like the little man from Missouri will have trouble washing the tall Tennesseean out of his hair." |