The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-08
7 aft Very Happy Over
Wallace Decision To Run

Washington (LPA)-Sen. Rob-
ert A. Taft (R., Ohio), the MANS
white hope for the Republican NOM
ination for President, told report
ers this week that he is Every hap
py" about Henry A. Wallace's de-
cision to run as an Independent
candidate in 194S. Taft's campaign
manager, Rep. Clarence Brown,
said "This makes it sure we will
have a Republican President in
1948."
Democratic National Committee
Chairman j. Howard McGrath does
not agee. He thinks that the Wal
lace move "will clear the atmos-
phere in the coming campaign" He
said that Wallace's sole motive is
to defeat the bipartisan foreign
policy of the U. S., which can have
only one result, namely the victory
of the Communist foreign policy of
Russia"
In her column "My Day." Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt expressed
her disappointment with Wallace's
recent political activities and said
"He will merely destroy the very
things he wishes to achieve. / am
sorry that he has listened to peo-
pie as inept as he is himself"
Sen. Claude Pepper Cd. Fla.)
and James Roosevelt, Democratic
state chairman in California, both
of whom have been friendly to Wal
lace in the past, have announced
that they will support Truman for
reelection, but Sen. Glen Taylor
d., Idaho) is "giving considera-
ton" to running for the vice-presi-
dency with Wallace, who has asked
him to do so. at is very diff
cult question:" Taylor says.
Aside from Progressive Citizens
of America which called upon Wal
lace to run, and the Communist
Party's official paper, the Daily
Worker, which said editorially:
"Wallace, of course is not a Com
munist, but Communists have al
ways been ready to cooperate sin
cerely with every forward-looking
social movement. They are an in
tergral part of the new peoples
movement to carry forward the
anti-monopoly fight begun by
Franklin Roosevelt, a fight now
waged under new conditions and
with a new alignment of political
forces" other "left-wing" politi
cal groups and papers are staying
clear of Wallace's new party.
The New Dealish Americans
for Democratic Action asserts, or
respective of Mr.. Wallace's inten-
tions, the goals of his sponsors are
clear. They hope to divide progress
sives, create national confusion and
insure triumphs of reactionary iso-
lationism in 1948. They believe
the achievement of these aims will
serve the interests of the interna-
tional Communist movement"
Announcing that it too will run
an independent campaign, the So
cialist Party said: America needs
a new party-but it must come only
from those who want democracy
in political and economic life-not
from apologists for dictatorship.
Wallace's party will not be anti
capitalists. Even in Labor Britain
he termed himself a progressive
Tory"
The newspaper PM, which has
often agreed with Wallace's views,
wrote, "The third party movement
is not synonymous with American
independent progressivism. 1t con-
tains no trade-union strength ex-
cept that of the Communist wing,
and no liberal strength except that
which is willing to follow the lead
ership of that wing"
Speaking in Chicago, the same
city where by order of Franklin
ID. Roosevelt Wallace was dropped
from the Democratic ticket in 1914,
the former vice-president called for