Evening star., 1950-10-28
Shindigs Of Politics
Appear on All Sides,
Writer Points Out
Who Does One Vote For
When Candidates Fail
To Rouse Enthusiasm?
By Dorothy Thompson

everything at Wake Island.
The only unanswered question
Is what they agreed about.
Henry v. Poor, the young
G. o. P. lawyer who is running
for Congress in the goth New
York District against F. D. r.. jr
has tried to smoke out Mr.. Roose-
welt on what he thinks of the ap-
pointment of former New York
Mayor Bill O'Dwyer as Ambassa-
dor to Mexico. Mr.. Poor thinks il
was the most disgraceful ap-
pointment ever made to the for
eign service" He keeps on ask
ing Roosevelt what he thinks
F. D. R., jr., won't say.
Considering some of the am
bassadors we've met in years OF
peripatetic journalism, we think
Mr.. Poor exaggerates. But our
Mexican friends don't seem to ap-
preciate the honor. They ask why
if Mr.. O'Dwyer left New York
under a cloud, is he good enough
for Mexico? When we tell them
that Mr.. O'Dwyer is a foe OF the
Mexican Communist underground
they snarlingly ask whether we
intend to fight the underground
with the underworld.
When we say Mr.. O'Dwyer has
been i'll and needs the salubrlouS
climate of Mexico, they make
rude Spanish noises.
There's no way OF pleasing
some of these foreigners.
Taft or Against Taft.
Is anybody running against
Bob Taft in Ohio? All we hear Is
for Taft or against Taft, with nc
suggestion of whom to be Tor. II
he's defeated, will there just pe
a vacant chair in the Senate, an
nouncing Robert Taft once sal
here?
National organized labor has
invaded Ohio in strength. The!
are handing out cutely slanteo
comic books to school KIDS, WIZ
f7vers inside to take home te
Nom and Pop saying why they
should vote against Senator Tart
Mobilizing the infantry dn-
fants) for political action remlnos
mo of other places,
So far nobody's put them IN
specially colored shirts.
Every State election is becoming
q national shindig. We got let
ter from Neil Vanderbilt asking us
to sponsor Jimmie Roosevelt 1oi
governor of California. We replied
tartly that we weren't residents OF
California and had the notion thai
Californians presumably were
capable of deciding without us
whom they wanted for governor
Neil wrote us back a kindly note,
saying he understood our point OF
view, and frankly it was shared by
others, but reminding us that
those modified through similar
appeals to their services in the
past had afterward gone far
We think lots of people and
things have gone too. far. Any
how, we like it where we are.
Red Ears in New York.
We vote in New York and we'd
like to vote for a candidate with
out red ears. (While there's life
there's hopeD
When Joe Hanley's letter broke,
revealing that Gov. Dewey had
suggested financial considerations
to remove Mr.. Hanley as COP
gubernatorial candidate, and di-
rect him toward the Senate, we
were disappointed. We didn't want
Gov. Dewey for President. But
we have voted for him for COVER
nor.
Our sympathies after the Han
ley letter switched to the Demo-
Gratis until Senator Lehman'S let
ter re Alger Hiss came out, written
in August, 1948, expressing com
plete confidence" in Hiss loyalty
assuring him that lin common
with your many other friends,
know that under no conceivable
circumstances could you fail to
safeguard the interests of your
country
Confronted with this letter Sen
ator Lehman said he had nc
apologies to make for it and that
after all Mr.. Hiss at the time had
also gained the confidence of John
Foster Dulles and other respect
ables. (This they-too stuff doesn't
impress u.s. Senator Lehman re-
marked that it is a basic rule OF
Anglo-Saxon conduct to consider
a man innocent until proved
guilty.
That rule means Withholding
adverse Judgment in advance OF
proof, a course to be recommended
highly. But it doesn't mean rush
ing fulsomely in to contribute to
a claque for the defendant. 1t
was an error of judgment, and no
recommendation for high office.
Senator Lehman would have done
better had he said: "You could
knock me over with a feather. !
believed in that guy''-instead of
burying the skeleton in the files
Norman Thomas isn't running
for anything. He's retired. So
who does one vote for, when one
isn't enthusiastic about either of
the candidates?
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, 1nc.)
Poland Protests Inaction