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States of the North, East and West.
including New York. Pennsylvania,
Illinois, California, Michigan, Ohio,
Indiana and Massachusetts,. 1t has
been estimated that the Wallace
vote will 60 as high as 100000 IN
New York, and 100000 in California.
These are not the estimates OF the
Wallace followers-they put the fig.
ure much higher. If these estimates
prove correct, these two key States
will be definitely lost to MIR. Tru-
man and the Democratic ticket.
Advantage for New Group
The Wallace ticket has the ad-
vantage of the Endorsement OF
political parties already organized
in several States. in advance OF the
establishment of the new national
Progressive Party. The American
Labor Party. without whose support
Democrats have been unable to elect
their national and Statewide can
didates In New York, has taken
Wallace to its bosom. He is the
partys candidate for President. In
California the Independent Progress
sive Party was organized last year,
and 1t, too, has taken up with the
Wallace ticket. Another Progressive
Party in Illinois, which cast a huge
vote in Cook County (Chicag0 in
local elections last year, is in the
Wallace corner. Also the left wing
of the old Farmer-Labor Party in
Minnesota, headed by former Sena-
tor Elmer A. Benson. Is going to
town for Wallace and his ticket.
Only three members of the pres
ent Congress are enlisted in the
Wallace cause-Senator Glen Tay-
Tor of Idaho, Mr.. Wallace's running
mate, and Representatives Marcan-
tonic and Isacson Of New York,
both members of the American
Labor Party. The Progressives, how
ever, have entered a half hundred
candidates for the House and several
candidates for the Senate in the
coming election. They also have
entered candidates the Progressives
hope to build up for the future.
If they can add only a handful
of members of the House to their
list, 1t will be a major victory for
them this fall. a victory which is still
extremely doubtful. These candi-
dates, however, will make it diff
cult for Democrats to win in these
congressional districts and States.
Illinois is a good example, where
the Progressives have both a guber-
material and a senatorial candidate,
virtually assuring the reelection
of Gov. Green and Senator Brooks,
both Republicans.
Matter of Personalities
The Progressives say frankly they
do not expect Mr.. Truman to carry
any States-and that If he does
they will be in the South. His de-
feat necessarily goes along with the
primary objective of the New Party
and is a personal desire of Mr..
Wallace, who has no use for the
man who supplanted him in 1914
on the Democratic national ticket,
and thereby has the office which Mr.,
Wallace himself might have had
today.
In measure, the revolving South
erners become allies of the Pro-
gressives in this drive to keep all
electoral votes away from Mr.. Tru-
man. But, in the event Mr.. Tru-
man is disastrously beaten, the Pro-
gressives will have to face bitter
contest with the Democrats of the
South-who will do all in their
power to keep the old party alive.
The platform of the New Party, so
far as international relations are
concerned, might have been written
in the Kremlin. That goes, too, for
some of the domestic planks. But it
is in the field of foreign policy that
the Progressive Party Is hooked
right in with Soviet Russia.
It has been charged in some
quarters-the Americans for Demo-
cratic Action for one-that Mr..
Wallace has allowed himself to be