Evening star., 1947-09-15
Taft in Los Angeles
To Defend Congress
In Speech Tomorrow
BY Gould Lincoln
Stor Stoff Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15.-Sena
tor Taft. Republican. of Ohio, whit
has established a reputation TO
frank discussion of important publi'
questions of the day-except hi
candidacy for the Republican presi
dental nomination-arrived her,
early today on the second leg of hi
trip through California.
This promises to be a compare.
lively quiet day for the near-candi
date-he Is expected to make a for
NAL announcement that he choose!
to run on his return to Ohio. Out.
sile of calls from a number of prom.
inent Southern California Republi.
cans, a press conference and din.
ner with Louis B. Mayer, movie
magnate, the Ohio Senator has little
to dc.
His public appearances begin to.
morrow, when he will address tn,
Town Hall at noon and a Republi
can rally, staged by the party or
ganiZation in Los Angeles, at night
He is expected to outline and defent
the record of the Republican Con
gress and to deal with some of tn,
issues that may enter the campaign
next year.
Publicity Organ Needed.
Mr.. Taft has a very definite pur
pose. He believes that all Republi
can Senators and Representative
should go to the country and tell tn
people what Congress has been do
ing. He explains that when Con
gress is in session, these member
have an ample sounding board, bu
that when Congress is in adjourn
ment. it has no publicity organ Will
the Democratic administration con
tinues to grind out its propagand;
through vast number of Govern
ment publicity agencies.
AS the chief Republican spokes
man of the Senate on domestic is
sues-he is chairman of the Repub
lican Policy Committee of the Sen
ate-and as the leading congress
sional candidate for the presi
Dental nomination next year-Mr
Taft must do his bit of Republican
propagandizing After all, the recor'
of the Republican Congress will en-
ter vitality into the coming politica
campaign.
So far his only speeches in Cali
fornia have dealt with the need o
decentralized government and tn
Taft-Hartley labor law, delivere,
before the California bar, a Repub
lican audience in the main, in tn
Republican community of SAINT
Cruz. Only mild bit of picketin
before the auditorium. where he wa
to speak. has so far interrupted tn
even tenor the trip. Here in Lo
Angeles, where labor is more con
centrated, the demonstration ma
be more severe, as it may be per
haps in San Francisco, where h
goes next.
To Speak at Seattle.
NO demonstration, however, wi
deter the Ohio Senator from de
Tending the new labor law whicl
bears his name. Indeed, he ha
picked Seattle, hotbed of labor an
radicalism, for his principle speecl
on the TaftHartley law.
In direct contract to the refusa
of Gov. Dewey of New York, Sen
ator Taft's leading opponent TO
the presidential nomination, to dis
cuss public issues on his July "vaca
ton" trip to nearly a dozen Western
States, the Ohio Senator has spokel
out at press conferences on ever,
issue about which he was questioned
His proclivity for frankness send
cold shivers down the backs of ad
visors now travelling with him. A
the same time his engaging willing
ness to speak out boldly is maxim,
him friends. 1t is becoming trit.