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on the red ruffleS
of Miss Democrats petticoat, and
pulled it along with him."
And it was generally admit
ted that much of the stigma
connected with the charge of
''coddling Communists" was
removed when Wallace left.
Like the Pied Piper mot of
Hamelin, but once of IOwa) he
piped away a lot of the ''luna-
tic fringe" which is the eternal
headache of all political par
ties.
The rodents in this case (both
red and pink followed the piper's
dulcet promises. But the piper was
unable to take his revenge. Un-
like the flutist in the poem who
lured Hamelin's children away
when their parents wouldn't pay
the rat-exterminator, Henry's pip
ing titillated few Democratic ears.
The voters didn't follow.
There were other unwept losses
among Harry Truman's alleged
supporters. He won the election
without the solid south. The other
end Of the Democratic spectrum
colored by the views of those who
preferred mint juleps under the
fragrant magnolias, to straight
Yankee or middlewestern spirits
withdrew discreetly and complete
ly to their jasmine -curtained veran-
daS. This doesn't mean they won't
be heard from later. but they
aren't the worry they once were.
While no one would bracket the
conservatives with the ''lunatic
fringe" the Dixiecrats did cause
many embarrassments to the Dem
ocrats. Now they are at least sep
arately ticketed.
The Republicans likewise de-
rived certain healing qualities
from the cold dOuche they took
on November 2, not unlike MIR.
Truman's. A number Of their
die-hards died in the struggle
with the electorate. r.
Minority Leader to Be Joseph
Martin of chusetts, is no
wild-eyed radical. So what he says
on the subject of change (Which is
what the radical always WantS) is
significant.
Joe warned his friends back in
Attleboro, Mass, a. district which
probably will elect him as long as
he chooses to run, that the Repub-
licans in the recent campaign Of
fered the people ''too many Brah-
minis, too many plutocrats." These
Republican candidates, said Joe,
likewise offered too little person
ality, did not appeal to the people,
and formed a narrow circle which
prevented what he called "expan-
sion and the opening Of ranks"
COT whom could he have been
thinkingD
1--WE digressed too far from the
people," the former speaker said,
and the "GOP must reorganize in
the cities and towns, getting in
new blood at every level" Joe
was speaking then out Of his deep
political wisdom.
Social Legislation
Is Here to Stay
Rep. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania,
chairman of the Republican nation
al committee in the recent cam
paign, gave another significant post
election warning to his party. Re-
publicans must recognize, he said,
that legislation embodying social
gains is here to stay.
So it would appear that these
men, and many of the other Re-
publicans who now represent
the COP in congress, are as
happy to be relieved, not of
a lunatic fringe like the Demo
Gratis, but of an albatrOss
around their necks.
The Republicans who are trying
to reform their ranks and rebuild
for 1850 are by no means pessi-
mistic. To quote Joe Martin again,
he predicted that the COP would
snap back quicker than they went
out. They know now, if some of
them didn't before, they must keep
in step with the times. One of the
great problems the Republican ma
tional committee faced in the cam
paign was reconciling the spro-