The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16
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 Every four years, when Q job opens up in the White House. the party leaders single out a trial horse to gallop out among the voters and see what cooks The early gal- loper hardly ever gets anything more than the exercise, a lot of handshakes, and some bad meals at the banquets e. Prank O. Low den, one time Gov. of Illinois, used to break the trails for the Repubs and always got tuckered out before the main event Wm. Gibbs Me- Adoo did a couple of jobs of trail busting for the Demos, taking over from W. J. Bryan, who made ca reer of losing out when the blue chips were down One year the trial horse got so far off in front that the leaders never caught him and he made the race and took his licking like little soldier. That was Landon, the Kansas Gov. whose platform was that he balanced the Kansas budget. He couldn't balance the vote, however This year the explorer looks like Gov. Bricker of Ohio. The governor sleeps next to @ pole, it seems, and every time a good tip comes in he slides down like a fireman and inquires: Any nominations today?" His big danger is that Willkie is already travelling so fast he might run right over Bricker before most of the constituency catch the name.
 The time has come for some of the politicos to worry about what they're going to use for stump speeches next year, when they have to put the arm on the constituency for a fresh mandate A lot of the spell binders, who got in two years ago on the pledge to restore the American way of nfe,' are go- ing to be up against 1t on two counts: CD They restored noth- ing; and (2) their idea of the Amer ican way of life might not be to the voters liking The American way of life, as lots of them pictured it, was life without FDR in the White House. They added a lot of trimming about the covered wagons, the pioneer fathers and mothers, what a fine old fellow George Washington was, and don't forget to put down an x for your old neighbor on election day .. This time with 100000 votes in uni- form the Honorable Glittering Gen. erality will have to get down to cases. He will be asked to talk sense, instead of oratory, and that's going to be disastrous order for lots of them, especially if they have to ad lib it.
 There have been lots of pleas from Congressmen from both houses to refrain from laughing at them. They are important statesmen, they whirnper, and shouldn't be treated as guffaw bait . But the hell of it is they keep walking around on banana peels and otherwise acting like Buster Keaton . Frinstance, the other morning the President of the United States went out to the airport to welcome Secretary of State Hull home from Russia . The personal touch was in honor of Hull's adroit diplomating in Mos cbw, where the U. s. joined in with the Soviet Union, Great Britain and China in forming a firm front against Nazi trickery It was essential that all the United Nations think alike on certain matters, and Hull, the President thought. had been a useful citizen in dealing with Stalin. He had mingled with the Communist biggies very successfully.
 While the President was honoring Hull, members of the House h. sular Affairs Committee were get ting laughs by falling off ladders and squirting each other with siphons. They were trying to pun ish Dr. Robert Morss Lovett on the allegation that he had been hob nobbing with Communist front or ganiZations The committee wanted him removed from an off, ficial post in the Virgin Islands for that alleged reason . In short. what Secretary Hull was honored for by the President and in the editorial opinion of the country, got Dr. Lovett up on charges You gathered from the jig-saw goings- on 1t was perfectly dandy to skip to Moscow and fraternize with the Commies, but if you gave one of them a howdy here at home you were 6 wrongo What is the squarer? The price of trip abroad?
 Churchill has followed a lot of trades. He's been reporter, author, statesman, farmer, etc. But the war has proved him no slouch as an actor, either The other day when Hitler flexed his muscles at the Beer Hall anniversary cere- monies, few of the timider Lon- doners began to wonder if he had an ace up his sleeve. He talked like a guy who was getting ready to sock. Mot necessarily, old boy chimed in a debunker. Remember how tough Winnie talked ln 1940? In those days Britain didn't have potshot, but Whine gave out with the rhetoric like a champ. Those