Evening star., 1948-11-14

these lines:
/. The policies of the COP viii
Congress-but only after President
Truman has laid his cards on the
table in his Forthcoming message to
Congress on the state of the Union.
. 2. The Republican Party should
be given a new look"-and this
new look may be initiated in the Sc
lection of COP leadership in the
Congress. Already plans are being
made, for example, to get away from
what has been called the Taft
Wherry leadership in the Senate.
So far as House Republicans are
concerned, Speaker Joe" Martin
will undoubtedly take over the mi
nority leadership. Notwithstanding
the trimming which the Republic
can presidential candidate, Gov.
Dewey, and the Republican Gov
Bradford took at the hands OF
Massachusetts voters, Joe Martin
was reelected by a greater ma
jority than ever before.
Truman's Ticklish Task
8. President Truman won election
after promising many things to
many groups. When he tackles the
job of keeping these promises, MIR.
Truman may turn out to be the
COPS own secret weapon" For
example, he has promised the farm
ers a continuance of high prices
for their production and the city
people lower prices for food and
other commodities. Keeping both
these promises. the Republicans say,
is going to be ticklish. He has prom
ised repeal of the Taft-H Hartley labor
law and the adoption of the anti
segregation, civil rights program.
Both of these latter promises are
big orders.
4. While it is still early-very
early-Republican conversation is
already drifting toward probable
presidential nominations. Party
leaders feel that there will be plenty
of aspirants of ability for the nomi-
nation when 1852 rolls around. They
see lines forming for various presi-
Dental possibilities long before that.
Gov. Dewey of New York, after his
second defeat in a four-year period,
they regard as definitely "out" for a
1852 nomination. They admit that
Dewey is a man of great capacity
They add that he is young-only
46-and that perhaps after eight or
10 years he may again be in the
spotlight as a possible presidential
nominee. A movement already has
been launched by some of his friends
for Harold E. Stassen, president OF
the University of Pennsylvania. It
is within probability that it will
not be long before the name of an
other college president, Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, is put forward. No
one knows yet whether he is Re-
publican or a Democrat-but he has
been claimed by both parties.
The more conservative Republi-
cans-particularly those who con-
tend that there is not room for two
New Deal parties in the United
States-may attempt to breathe life
into a Taft-for-President boom.
When the Republican National Con-
vention closed in Philadelphia last
June, it looked as though Gov
Dewey-who had defeated Taft for
the presidential nomination-would
be in the White House for four
or perhaps eight years, and that
the Ohioan had made his last try
for presidential nomination
It did mot work out that way
Senator Taft, however, must run
the gantlet two years hence
when he Is due to come UP
for denomination and reelection
to the Senate. He may be chal-
lenged by Democratic Gov.-elect
Frank Lausche, who has just been
swept into of1lce.
Senate Possibilities
In four years time others may