Evening star., 1947-11-09
! |5fassen Will Take Off
This Week on Air Trio
To Step Up Campaign
by the AsseeIatsd Prsss

Harold e. Stassen sets out thi!
week on a 6,000-mile, 12-State fly
ing trip to quicken the pace Of hi!
campaign for the Republican pres
idential nomination.
AS politicians generally concluded
that last Tuesdays off-year cleo
tions held relatively little nationa
significance and resumed planning
the big 1s4S campaign, there wer'
these developments:
/. The drive of the only othel
avowed candidate for the Republi.
can presidential nomination reached
a tapering-off point. Senator Taf
of Ohio who has been stumpinl
the country for weeks, will speak tt
the Ohio Society in New York Cit,
tomorrow, then he will come bacl
to Washington to get ready for the
special congressional session.
Quiet Week for Dewey.
2. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey Of New
York, who hasn't announced his in
tentions, also planned compare
lively quiet week. He is scheduled
only for a couple of public appear
ances and appropriate remarks II
connection with the arrival of th'
Freedom Train in Albany.
3. The Democrats listed nationa
convention OF Young Democratic
Clubs, starting Thursday in Cleve
land, as their main political bust
ness in the week ahead.
Washington is sending to Cleve'
land Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder, Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson, half a dozen Representa-
tives and Senator McGrath o.
Rhode Island, the Democratic Ma.
tional chairman. And something
will be strangely wrong If there isn't
plenty of discussion of vice pres.
idential possibilities In the after
hours huddles when the Young
Democrats have finished the days
convention duties.
Vandenberg Repeats Refusal.
Meanwhile, Senator Vandenberg
Republican, of Michigan, friends
said yesterday, has taken steps tt
remove himself further from the
race for the nomination.
- In the face of continued specula-
ton about his availability as pos
sible dark horse" candidate, Sena-
tor Vandenberg has told these
friends that he is prepared to spike
any such move at next June's Re-
publican convention in Philadelphia
The Michigan Senator has said
repeatedly that he Is not candi-
date and does not intend to become
a candidate. He has qualified this
only by saying that no man could
resist a genuine draft for the nomi-
nation, but has expressed the opinion
that no draft movement can de-
velop without connivance of the in
dividual involved. He would not
connive, he declared.
In furtherance OF this, Senator
Vandenberg has told associates, they
report, that If a deadlock develops
among the announced candidates,
he will not consent to the entry of
his name in the lists and If efforts
were made to bring him into the
race without his consent he has said
he would ask the delegates not to
consider him.
Stassen Encouraged.
In NeWYork, Mr.. Stassen stressed
he is running only for the presi-
Dental nomination.
The former Governor Of Mime
sofa viewed his presidential pros
poets as encouraging" He told
reporters his hackers figure the first
convention ballot will bring his 10C
votes of the 100 delegates from
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri
and the DakotaS. He needs SAT to
clinch the nomination.
And he will 60 on a hunt for some