Evening star., 1948-07-03
for Draft
.0f Eisenhower
Is SnowbaIIinq
Only New Disclaimer
Will Stop Stampede,
Supporters Say
VIRGINIA DELEGATES back
Eisenhower but boo Tuck tactics.
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VIRGINIA DELEGATES bach
Eisenhower but boo Tuck tactics
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The Stop -Truman-Wit Els.
enhower move in the Democratic
party was muShrooming to the
point today where Eisenhower
disciples we're declaring that
only another disclaimer by the
general would remove him from
their calculations.
Senator Sparkman of Alabama
one of the leaders in the effort tt
have the forme tilied commander
salvage the crun' ling presidential
prospects of tn Democrats, said hit
did not know e zen. Eisenhower
now president # Columbia Uni.
versity, would cept the party nom.
ination If offe, ID.
But he made it plain that South.
ern Democrats, baking at President
Truman's civil rights program, woule
read continued silence by Gen. Eisen.
hover as willingness to have hi!
name offered to the national con.
vention opening July u in Phila.
delphia.
Caucus Call Confirmed.
Meanwhile, there were these addi.
tional developments in the Demo.
cratic upheaval:
Jacob N. Arvey, chairman of the
powerful Cook County (Chicago)
Democratic organization who al.
ready has taken a walk on Presi-
dent Truman, announced that Cali
fornia Chairman James Roosevelt
had invited him to meeting OF
Eisenhower people" in Philadelphia
before the Democratic convention
opens.
Mr.. Arvey's announcement con-
f1rmed yesterdays reports that q
caucus of anti-Truman forces had
been arranged for July 10 in Phila-
delphia, two days before the con-
vention opening.
These reports said prime movers
in the caucus were Mr.. Roosevelt
Mr.. Arvey and Mayor O'Dwyer o!
New York.
Theory Of Strategy.
The Chicago Tribune said the
Roosevelt Arvey O'Dwyer invita-.
tions are based on this strategy
Eisenhower is being used as the
magic spearhead Of this anti-Tru-
man movement. Some observers
believe the promoters expect him to
decline the nomination once and
for all, but a large number of dele
gates by then will have been broken
loose from their moorings to Trn-
man. Then it will be possible to
switch the displaced delegates to
Justice william o. Douglas. - ="
Virginia Democrats, spurred by
Senator Byrd, instructed their 26.
vote delegation to the Philadelphia
convention, to work for an Eisen-
hover nomination.
Georgia Democrats, in convention
at Macon, also joined the draft
Eisenhower" parade and called on
President Truman to step aside
But Senator Russell of Georgia
whom the convention backed fol-
Vice President-with Gen. Eisen-
hower-or for President if the gen.
eral refused to be drafted-repu-
dated the proposal.
Truman Has 286 Delegates.
A checkup today showed that Mr.
Truman has 286 pledged or in
structed delegates, with 800 more
claimed in his camp. He needs 61S
for the nomination.
In connection with the Alabama
agitation for Gen. Eisenhower, it
was reported that that State would
yield to Kansas at the head of the
convention roll call. to permit an
Eisenhower nomination to be made
from his home State right at the
outset-in the hopes of stampeding
the gathering.
But the Associated Press said from
Birmingham that one Alabama del
egate, E. c. Boswell, wants the Ala
bamans themselves to nominate the
general.
Despite Senator Sparkman,s en-
pAasis on Gen. Eisenhower, how
ever, he told a radio audience last
night that if the choice were be-
tween Mr.. Truman and Gov. Dewey
of New York most Southerners
would prefer the President.
Senator Sparkman will not repeat
his 1914 role as director of the
party's speakers bureau.
Senator McGrath, Democratic
chairman, announced that the as
signment will go to Senator Hatch
of New Mexico, who is retiring from
the Senate at the end of his cur
rent term next January.
The idea of a stampede to Gen
Eisenhower brought a new rumol