Show ME I 1 0 difficult job confronts new democratic leaders chairman hannegan publicist porter must rebuild party machine answer GOP attacks on bureaucracy by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator service union trust building washington D 0 B bombs 0 abs one day will cease bursting in g ships will sail the seas undisturbed by torpedoes and cities will no longer be levelled bevelled level led b but jut politics knows 0 ws no armistice the pol political forces are already laying down their preliminary barrages two weeks ago I 1 reported a visit to rep republican publican head headquarters quart ers up on connecticut avenue and I 1 attempted to dutli outline ne the job that chairman of the republican national committee harris on spangler has laid out tor for himself aimse if since then I 1 have been admitted into the front lines in the democratic c sector ector and now that I 1 am back sas safe fe in limb and I 1 hope sound in mind ind I 1 shall attempt to report the strategy that fie field id marshal Hann egans egans cohorts seem to be employing plo ying democratic chairman hannegan Is a young mat man i who has served in the ranks and worked his way up from ward politics to city chairman tor for st louis whence he leapt to the national chairmanship just to give you a little of the atmosphere in which the democratic GHQ operates let me say a word about a gathering held recently in the mayflower hotel which also houses the democratic headquarters just afew a few blocks down connecticut avenue from the old residence that the GOP has taken over this gathering was the occasion of the retirement of charley michel son and the assumption of his duties as number one publicity man tor for the democratic committee by tall and personable paul porter who said he felt as if 11 somebody had put him down in carnegie hall handed him Kries lers violin and said now play that was a pat remark we all know charley michelson Ml chelson we all know porter who has been around washington in one important job or another ever since the new deal began dealing and we know the typewriter of charley michelson is as hard for anyone but its possessor to play upon as krell Kreis lers fiddle would be however when I 1 was up at democratic headquarters a few days later there was charley apparently ly giving such aid and comfort and encouragement as might be needed from the wings one thing that makes it hard for the democrats Is 13 that the republicans are in a position to lift their copyright As one democrat explained it to me it Is like this nobody will have a chance to do the job that charley michelson did tor for us from 1822 1922 on until the election of the trouble Is the republicans are in a po position to use his theme song adapted of course to suit their needs they have already started to do to the administration just what michelson did to hoover they have started to attack the war agencies and all of the administration departments and activities e exposing every blunder playing up failures and trying to show that everything everyN ng the people think are burdens and annoyances a ces can be traced directly to the administration and you know this wise old V veteran added what you write and say about how bad the other guy Is makes a lot better reading than what you say about how good you think YOU are that is one obstacle chairman hannegan Is up against although the real responsibility falls on en the shoulders of successor paul porter and they are broad shoulders with a very good newspaper bead between them but hannegan has another bigger problem it Is a job for a master mechanic it Is a repair job on the democratic machine which Is euphemistically designated in the language of party politics as the organization broken machine hannegan la Is a young energetic apen open faced irishman and it is a good thing he be Is young and energetic and optimistic because he has had to start his job of organization at scratch anyone at democratic headquarters will admit that the reason is if revealed in this alm pie chronology jim parley farley took over a prett well running machine built up by raskob farley did a splendid lot jot of keeping it spinning until 1938 1936 it I 1 was wa s a hundred per cent roosevelt or president machine that tar far then parley farley got other ideas Idea sone one that two terms was enough loi roosevelt and the other was that thai the next term it would be farley the machine changed to a one man dog which for four years would only come when its master OPO spoke ke and its master was farley after the historic split it fell apart except as the states kept their seg ments intact so all mr hannegan has to do Is to put it together again if he car find all the parts that is the first job as far as the democratic offensive goes As to the defense they feel they the already have a pretty clear picture of the republican war plans as re healed in activities to date they T hey point to the campaign that won the republicans another seal sea in the house of representatives from fr 0 in the first congressional distri dis as of colorado the democratic candi date was a young war hero his republican opponent was a business man he had a very simple line of attack he hammered racy he placed the present ills of the community squarely on the head of the administration gas rationing tor for instance the OPA fight the democrats say this pattern damning the administrations ad ministering has been revealed in congress too the fight over the OPA is a current example minority leader joe martin announced at the beginning that nobody wanted to do away with price regulation but that thai present regulation must be im proved what the democrats expect is that the republicans will drag dr aa out the hearings as long as possible possie e para parade de what they call a chamber of horrors before the people at tempting to associate all the arrita eions limitations and restrictions which are annoying the public on the administration there are other obstacles which are a product of the time which the democrats have to meet they are realistic about them one is the fourth term of course that may partially be offset by the dont change horses in the middle of a tream stream argument which is counted C buted upon to influence a great number of people who think it might be disastrous to shift leadership whether hether W you like it or not while the war is going on another situation which the demo brats face and about which there Is little or nothing to doas do Is the great greal migration of voters who have failed to establish residence to in their new homes or who are in the armed forces and will not be able to vote As one democrat put it to me we know we are going to suffer more than the republicans from this change of residence business it the man and woman who lives in a park avenue penthouse who moves to san diego to work in an airplane plant it is the hill billy w who ho has voted democratic all hi his s life who moves to a war boom town and forgets to register campaign weapons and he added it is the son of families which have been re electing roosevelt who isn t going to get his ballot in from atoll or middlesex on sticks wangle sh shire ire hereford E england here are two main dishes the I 1 dern democrats probably will offer the the first I 1 have already men honed dont change horses the second can be encompassed in one word work you can call it if security or any other name that smells as sweet but the democrats count on the tact fact that the average american fears another depression or at least tew temporary ment when the boys come h home 0 me the argument is they the demo brats did it before they can do it II again the republicans brought you panic the new deal got you through it circumstances alter the best laid plans of mice men and national committees but that seems to be what they are shouting at along connecticut avenue today BRIEFS B R I 1 E F S b ay y ba baukhage u k hage chios six state universities through their inter university council have asked the director of 0 education of ohio kenneth S ray hay to call a state conference on problems relating to the rehabilitation of returning servicemen i U S ici civilian villan supplies of sugar will be 6 per cent less than 1043 1943 con gumption according to under existing legislation all veterans ot of world war 11 II who were citizens of illinois when they entered military service are eligible for university ot of illinois scholarships berlin radio told latin amerl america ca that the german tourist movement in 1943 was only 8 per cent lower than in years cebre the war |