Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-29
The Political Mil
Wallace Seen Setting Up
His Own Brain Trust
Tuswell Joins Campaign Committee /,
Many Great Brains in Group
By Gould Lincoln

BY Gould Lincoln
Henry A. Wallace, once Vice President and
an ardent follower of the late Franklin d.
Roosevelt and now a candidate for President,
is fixing to get himself brain trust" too.
Indeed. 1t has been noticeable that ever since
Mr.. Wallace raised his third-party standard
and declared his intention of running he has
had college professors coming his way And
now Rexford Guy Tugwell, professor of politi.
cal science at the University of Chicago, has
been signed on as cochairman of the newly
appointed National Wallace for President
Committee"
Mr.. Tugwell was one of the bright young
men with whom the late President Roosevelt
surrounded himself when he came to WASH
ington Is years ago. He was an original brain
truster," and he did as much as any of the
Roosevelt advisers to give the Roosevelt admin.
istration socialist coloration. Eventually Mr..
Tugwell became closely associated with Mr.,
Wallace, and was Undersecretary of Agricul-
ture while Mr.. Wallace was Secretary of that
department. In 1871 President Roosevelt sent
Mr.. Tugwell to Puerto Rico to be Governor Of
that unhappy Territory. About year ago.
President Truman permitted Mr. Tugwel to
resign. Many complaints had come from the
island that Mr.. Tugwell had been seeking to
SOclauZe government there.
Benson Heads Committee.
The formation of q National Wallace for
President Committee was necessary practical
step on the part of Mr.. Wallace and his third
party supporters. There is a great amount Of
spade work to be done to get Mr. Wallace on
the ballot in many States-and wherever pos
sible as the candidate of the proposed new
third party. At the head of this committee
is Elmer A. Benson, former Farmer-Labor Gov
ernor and United States Senator from Min
nesota. Mr.. Benson Is a practical politician
and he still heads q strong faction of the
Democratic-Farmer Labor Party in his own
State It has been his purpose, If he can
bring it about, to have the Democratic Farmer
Labor Party OF Minnesota place Henry Wallace
on It's ticket in the coming presidential election.
thereby making 1t necessary for President Tru-
man to run as an independent" candidate In
that State.
Mr.. Benson played an important part In
the recent national convention Of the Pro-
gressive Citizens Of America in Chicago, when
that organization decided to throw its full
weight back Of the Wallace third-party candi-
dacy. He is not only anxious to defeat Presi-
dent Truman in Minnesota but also Mayor
Humphrey of Minneapolis, whom the Demo-
Gratis have hoped to run against Senator Ball,
Republican. next November. Mr.. Benson has
no use for Mayor Humphrey whom he dubs
Fascist of the first water, and he plans to put
a candidate in the field. The effect would
be to make 1t impossible for Mayor Humphrey
to defeat Senator Ball-all of which is caus-
ing the Mayor of Minneapolis considerable
unease.
The Wallace campaign manager Is to be
G. B. Baldwin, another practical organizer with
much experience. He, too, was associated with
Mr.. Wallace closely in the happier New Deal
days in Washington. For two years he was
Mr.. Wallaces personal assistant resigning that
position to become administrator Of the Farm
Security Administration. In 1914, Mr.. Baldwin
resigned as Economic Director for Italy to be-
come assistant chairman of the CLIO Political
Action Committee under the late Sidney Hill
man. Like Mr.. Hillman, Mr.. Baldwin went all
out for the denomination of Henry Wallace
as Vice President
Plenty Of brains" in Camp
It is becoming more obvious all the time
that Mr.. Wallace is drawing from the old r. D.
R. Strengths key man after key man in the
new organization Is revealed. The other CO.
chairmen of the national Wallace committee
are 10 Davidson, famous sculptor, and Paul
Robson, widely known Negro singer. The
support Of those Negroes vino went to the
polls so frequently to vote for F. D. r. Appar-
emily he is going to have lot Of them.
The treasurer of the new Wallace committee
is to be Angus Cameron of Lexington, Mass,
editor in chief of Little, Brown & Co., book
publishers. Mr.. Wallace is to have plenty Of
brains" in his camp. Furthermore, the recent
refusal of a number Of CLIO union leaders.
among them Harry Bridges, to go along with
Philip Murray president Of the Clio, in his
opposition to the new third-party candidacy
of Mr.. Wallace is blow to those who are seek
ing to minimize the Wallace threat.
Soon national headquarters are to be opened
by the Wallace committee and the wheels
will be put in motion for both Mr.. Wallace
and his third party.
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