Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-05-23
Third Porty|s All in Wallace Basket

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Foreign Policy Ideas
| PIow Under Farm
| Background
the anti-Communists in the recent
Italian election. when the Com
munists were defeated badly.
It seems incredible that Mr.. Wal
lace will have wide support In his
campaign for the presidency. He
has. however, promised the radicals
their way If he is elected. He has
made his promises to the Jews, to
the Negroes, to other racial groups
and to labor. Indeed. it was to
Offset the Wallace appeal to these
groups that some Of the Truman
proposals have been advanced
such as the Truman civil rights
program which has enraged South
ern Democrats and the original
Palestine partition plan-which ul-
timately was sidetracked by the ad-
ministration.
Elected Only Once
Mr.. Wallace, who started out as q
Republican, became . Democrat
and is now a new party" man, has
been elected to only one public
ofdce-Vice President. He had little
to do with that victory at the polls
He did not even carry his own
State, Iowa. He won because he
was on q ticket with the late Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Mr.. Roosevelt was
making his try for q third term
and it seemed necessary to have as
his running mate a vice presidential
candidate who would appeal to the
farmers of the Midwest, where the
Republicans were coming back to
life. So Mr.. Wallace was picked
He had been Secretary Of Agricul-
ture for more than seven years
but the farmers, apparently, did moi
care for him. They still do not care
for him-and his political support
today is in industrial centers.
He came Of a family Of agricul-
turalists. His father, Henry Cant.
well Wallace was Secretary of Agri.
culture in the Harding Coolidge adj
ministration-a strong Republican
His grandfather, also Henry Wal
lace, was a member of Theodore
Roosevelt's Country Life Commits
sion. After graduating from Iowa
State College in 1910 the present
Henry went to work as a member
of the editorial stan Of Wallace's
Farmer, published by his father
Later he became editor. He was
Hoover and backed Mr.. Roose-
welt in 1882, which gave him his
chance to be Secretary Of Agricul-
ture.
Author of Books
Almost go years old, this presi-
Dental candidate has written and
published many books on agricul-
ture, economics and government
One of his recent volumes was
devoted to a program which should
provide 10000, 900 jobs in this coun-
try-and provide against periods of
great unemployment. Mr.. Wallace
was largely responsible, after the
close Of World War II, for the start
Of the spiral Of increases in wages
and prices. He sounded of with
the idea that wages could be in
creased without increasing prices
This was one Of the first Of the
Wallace suggestions for which Mr..
Truman fell.
President Roosevelt's failure to 60
down the line for Mr.. Wallace in
1914 prevented his denomination
for Vice President. Despite the fact
he had been tossed out, he made
an active campaign for the re-elec-
ton of Mr.. Roosevelt-for fourth
term. Mr.. Roosevelt was impressed
and grateful. He told Vice Presi-
dent Harry Truman that Mr.. WAL
lace must be rewarded and could
have any job he wanted, save that
of Secretary Of State, which was
Cordell Hull's. Since Mr.. Roosevelt
already had determined to get rid
of Jesse Jones, his Secretary OF
Commerce, he gave Mr.. Wallace
that post. The Wallace confirma-
ton by the Senate was bitterly
fought and only by the grace of a
few tradition bound Republican
Senators did he survive.
In his present campaign. Mr.
Wallace has found the heads Of the
biggest unions opposed to him, and
also some Of the old Roosevelt New
Dealers Gin Americans for Demo-
cratic Action because they felt that
a third-party candidacy would
surely mean the election Of q re-
dictionary Republican-orsa Repub-
lican whom they will dub reaction
airy. Mr.. Wallace realizes he can
not win-but he hopes to found a
new party which will live and win
four years hence.
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