Show low pros will oppose stassen former Mir minnesota inesita governor Is playing lone wolf role dy by BAUKHAGE now news analyst and commentator this thi is the third of a series on the men most talked about as candidates for the be republican presidential nomination washington when the bakers were down in washington sweating out a grain conserva conservation tio n program for their industry my friend from minnesota harry W who is what the personal column calls a frequent visitor in the capital gave a little luncheon for his colleagues and some press and radio men we had finished eating and were gathered around to listen to the bik bakers troubles trouble alen suddenly the door opened and pounds of 0 blond smiling political potentiality burst upon us bui u harold Harol dl then turned and announced noun ced gentlemen Gen Geat tiemen lemen the next president of the united st states ates I 1 daresay most minnesota republicans will say aye to that what t the he rest of the country says Is awa awaited I 1 ted with interest by the candidate I 1 suppose I 1 have ha had d 50 people as ask k me about harold stassen why ha ant stassen a chance they query most observers ob serven seem to agree that if he has a ch chance nce its a pretty slim one to date the reason Is a always 11 the same the professional politicians dont want him not because it hes els a political unknown he could hardly be called that sure he took the job of county chairman at the age ge of 21 he was elected governor of minnesota baukhage t three h r e e times could have been senator from that state had he W wanted sited the job in his case its not inot so much that hes a newcomer as it is the way he came up that way Is characteristic of his whole campaign and two words describe it lone wolf the situation favored stassen when he forced his way into the gubernatorial race in 1938 minnesota minn n was in a bad way there was vandalism abid and corruption and the farmer labor party which c h h had ad held a stiff grip on t the he state was disintegrating through u gh its own weakness and graft stassen entered the race against the wishes of the republican old guard but he eventually forced them to help I 1 him to some degree it was largely his 0 own ian efforts however that elected him in other words he butted into th the e governorship according to old guard critics others say he did it merely as a stop step to the presidency and that it was part of his overweening ambition the same thing they say about governor dewey of new york but the old guard fears type of ambition more than deweys deleys De they fear it because they feel that should stassen be come president tie he might build up a strong personal following and thus th us get a stranglehold strangle hold on the republican party conventional candidates dont commit themselves too heavily his supporters su claim that stassen is a middle ol of the a little to the left but it is not too much his liber X Z A HAROLD STASSEN does be have a chance aliby to which the politicians object I 1 doubt if any practical politician expects us to turn back the clock but in his highly unorthodox campaigning pai gning stassen has violated two rules one by announcing himself early in the present campaign tobay to lay he Is the only official can adhate for the presidential inoma rution nation two he has made and he repeats sharp criticism of the re he publican program As roscoe drummond ol of the christian science monitor puts it if they pick him to ride the elephant have to get a new elephant certainly stassen has hinted this was necessary when he said the republican program must be more constructive more dynamic lie he consult with anybody else when he announces hofto how to make it so part of the lonewolf complex lie he comes up from the soil with a dirt farmer father he worked his way through college lie he has a good military record as deputy chief of staff to admiral halsey lie he Is younger than dewey stassen is 39 and taller than taft a sandy haired slow spoken and deliberate del I 1 berate six footer ta P 2 4 A xa MUI 01 NOT folt I 1 OR SISSIES there was plenty of raw action during duran the girls field hockey game between bryn mawr blaar and drexel institute of technology like when doris left of drexel slugged a liard hard one in an attempt to score a goal and the bryn mawr goalie topped stopped it |