Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-01
POLITICAL
PARADE
By George
RothweN Brown
sp.cIa, to TBE DETROIT TIMES

Special to TBE DETROIT TIMES
CT. LOUIS. Aug. 1.-The state
~ from which the Roosevelt
New Deal has drawn IFS SUBJ
stitute candidate for vice presl-'
dent and new national chair
man, will bring 10 a close today
one of the bitterest primary
campaigns in the history of
Missouri.
Savagely and at times ma
liciously attacked as an 'isoia-
zionist" and opponent OF the
PRESIDENTS radical domestic
policies, tor Bennett
Champ Clark, son of the famous
former speaker efthe- House OF
Representatives, emerged in the
final hours of the Democratic
contest as the probable winner
in his campaign for renomina-
ton for a third Senate term.
But the result may be close.
On THE Republican side Gov.
" Forrest c. Donnell APP
peared as The final pre-primary
rallies were held all over the
state. hut chiefly centerlng in
vital ST. Louis and ST. Louis
County. 70 be the probable win
ner of the party nomination Tor
senator.
If he should win, and Sena-
tor Clark should be defeated,
Donnell would be virtually GER
tain to be Missouri's next Sen
ator, and the states electoral
vote would almost AS certainly
go TO Dewey and Bricker IN the
November election.
Clark is being supported by
Senator Truman.
TRUMAN has never been a
big vote getter in Missouri
and his vice presidential nomi-
nation apparently is having
very little influence on Demo-
cratic prospects in the state.
Robert E. Hannegan. Demo-
cratic national chairman, is also
openly supporting Clark.
Clark's only primary oppo-
nent is Atty. Gen. Roy Mckit-
trick of Salisbury. who's
backed by Chairman George
NJ. Murphy of the ST. Louis
City Democratic Committee. He
is also strongly supported by
the Go PoliticaEAetion- Com
mittee.
This left wing support will
help McKittrick in the cities
but it will be poison for him in
rural Missouri. where the bulk
of the Democratic vote is cast.
MISSOURI farmers believe
4N1 that President Roosevelt
has sold them down The river
for the labor vote. Clark will
poll a heavy vote in the
country districts.
With the exception of the
Kansas City Star, which is sup
porting him. Senator Clark is
being opposed by virtually all
the newspapers of Missouri.
He has been attacked as an
isolationist, and as an opponent
of the major Roosevelt policies.
THE Pendergast issue has been
L injected in the gubernatorial
campaign since the nomination
of Senator Truman, who was
first sent to the Senate by boss
Tom Pandergast of Kansas City.
Clark fought the Pendergast
machine. in his first election in
1882. He opposed Truman in
1884. but in 1910 he supported
Truman after he and Truman
had patched up their differences.
Both of them endorsed Bob
flanagan, first for collector of
internal revenue, and later as
commissioner vi lile DuItdu VI
internal revenue.
This explains why Truman
and flanagan are now support
ing Clark. The senator will also
get the votes of many conServa-
tive Democrats, and many Re-
publicans that no other Demo-
cratic candidate for the Senate
could swing.
Gov. Donnell is being opposed
for the Republican nomination
for the Senate by three major
contenders, chiefly by Howard
V Stephens of St. Louis, who
will get the bulk of the organ
ization support here. Stephens
is being supported by Barak T.
Mattingly, Republican national
committeeman. and Grover w.
Dalton of Poplar Bluff, Repub--
liCan state chairman.