The Nome nugget., 1946-11-04
The Peoples Rebellion Against Control


 tical campaign which promises to be recorded as the nations postwar rebellion against government controls Amid general predictions that the Republicans Will win
 majority of seats in the lower house of Congress and possibly in the Senate we'll the signs are multiply ing that the American people in mood to throw away their crutches.
 It is seen here in Colorado, but to greater de- gree in other states where administration supporters are up for re-election for example in neghborng Wyo ming, where capable Joe OMahoney is fighting down his new deal record in his toughest campaign.
 These last weeks before the election, bringing se were crisis in administrations domestic program have presented the Republican opposition with damaging campaign ordnance. After stumbling indecis on, the Presidents aboishment of meat controls showed his final awareness of the magnitude of this emergency Gallup survey measuring 55 per cent skid in Mr. Tru mans popularity-rom 87 to 32 per cent in year and half-was a significant straw in the wind.
 More than anything, this decline marked public dis approval of the Presidents domestic program for right wrong, American attention is firmly fixed on prob lemS at home.
 Foreign policy has failed to develop as potent pagn issue because the bipartisan conduct of tenal affairs has left nothing to dispute The Wallace explosion caused sensation in the field of foreign af fairs with repercussions extending into the domestic which will continue to be heard long after th election But politically it's effect has not been project foreign policy questions prominently into the campaign
 Rather has the Wallace affair served to bright light issue quite apart but significant in its own respect-the matter of the Democratic partys extreme left support Treated much like pet porcupne by the party high command, these groups, ranging from deep red to rosy pink, have become element of question able political worth to the Democrats Opposition ha- derived important capital from these partisans and has brought Communism importantly into the campaign.
 In the national field other sues which reflect voters rebellion against the administration Strikes, sultng in loss of production at time when in creased supply offers the only certain check nflaton have caused widespread displeasure with Roosevelt Truman labor policies. For correction voters may be expected to look to Republican Congress-
 Fairly and unfairly, many voters in this uncomfor' ably crowded nation blaming the administration for failure to correct the housing shortage In small way the shelter crisis has become symbolic of the whole broad problem of shortages in nation of unexcelled produc tive capacity No field of activity has been regu- lated than housng and since the crisis continues, bam- ing fingers naturally pointed at the regulators.
 Another issue not lightly to be dismissed is economy and the national debt Sober citizens looking at the continued high level of federal expenditures against background of the unbelievable federal debt The pie ure, despite Mr. Trumans efforts to bring his budget into balance, is frightening.
 These are the issues they have shaped up in pagn which has all the elements of pointing the way
 decisive change of direction during the next years As issues, they take the form of worries and grievance against the federal government that is kind