The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-06-29
Take Heart. Rabbits

tain political happenings of the past
six weeks for those scared rabbits in
Congress who. though hating it in
their hearts. dare not assert indie
pendencc of the bullying labor bosses,
who threaten to drive out Of public
life men who refuse to take their or
dcrs.
The first of these, of course, was
the failure of the CIO-AFL-Brother-
hood combination to save Senator
Pepper from a crushing defeat in
Florida. though he was their outstand-
ing labor stooge and they eNerted
their full strength and spent a lot Of
honey in his behalf. Another incident
Vas the stern denunciation by Gov
crnor Duff Of Pennsylvania Of the
criminal violence" shown by the
unions in the milk strike. He COM
pared those who held up and upset
milk trucks with bandits and prompt
ly ordered State police to put an end
to it. Reports are that Governor Duff,
now Republican candidate for the
Senate, has been greatly strengthened
by this action. The labor bosses
FASTENED to disclam and deplorc vio-
lence, the people applauded and there
has been complete absence Of threats
toward the Governor.
A third example was in the Cali
fornia primary, where the CIO-
AFL-supported candidates -"Jimmie'
Roosevelt for governor and Helen
Gahagan Douglas for senator-were
unable to make a sufficiently impress
sivc showing to prevent the odds from
being s to in favor of their Republi
can opponents in state where the
Democrats have a registration ma
jolity of more than a million. Further
evidence of the prospects Of Jim
mic" and Mrs. Douglas who have
been rushing around the State promis-
ing everybody everything, are the
pathetic pleas of their friends that
General Eisenhower give public pat
on the back to Jimmie" and that
Editor Manchester Boldly, Mrs Doug
lass primary opponent, now declare
he didn't mean any of the critical
things he said or wrote about her
The arguments for these ideas are
unconvncing. For example, it is as
serted that General Eisenhower owes
a debt of gratitude to Jimmie" for
urging his nomination at the Demo
cratic Convention of 1913. Of course,
the fact is a great many other I'M
authorized and publicity-seeking per
sons were urging General Eisenhower
at that time. Most of them--like
"Jimmie'-were not pro-Eisenhower
just anti-Truman. The General had
that he did not want presidential
nomination then. Particularly, he did
not want a Democratic nomination.
"Jimmie's" noisy boosting did him no
favor. Rather, it embarrassed him.
He owes him no pat on the back. If
anything, he owes him a kick in the
pants. As for Mr.. Boldly, the idea is
he should swallow his critical words
about the arch Mrs. Douglas out of
"chivalry." Well, well, well, think Of
that! 1t seems extremely unlikely
that either the General or Mr. Boldly
will be prodded into that kind of NUT
ton-headedness
A final encouragement to the
scared rabbits is the Ohio situation.
That fight started months ago with
an avalanche of propaganda and fiery
declarations by the labor bosses that
Senator Taft, author of the Taft
Hartly Act and public Enemy No.
~ was to be "driven out of public
life" The issue, they proclaimed, was
clearly drawn between labor's enc
mics and labor's friends. Every ounce
of strength labor could muster would
be thrown into the battle. With full
support from Chairman Boyle and the
White House, they were confident of
killing off Mr.. Taft by such a ma
jority as greatly to enhance labor's
political power. Out of victory would
emerge a national American Labor
party along British lines.
But it isn't working out that way.
In the first place, there was wide
public reaction in the country against
the gross arrogance of the labor at
titude. People sensed what it would
mean to public life here if they could
make good on their threats. Senator
Taft quietly campaigned in every Ohio
county, presenting the facts. The net
result was the union politicians, even
with Mr.. Boyle's help, were unable to
get any outstanding Democrat to run
against him and reluctantly have had
to get behind political pigmy. And
a few days ago the popular and
Independent Democratic Governor
Lausche, candidate for reelection, anC
the original labor choice to rur