Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-06-10
The Political Min
Farm Plan Propaganda
Stirs Wrath of Senators
National Committee Entry
Opposed in Some Stotes
The Political Min
By Gould Lincoln

The Democratic National Committee,
used as q propaganda agency 70 put
across President Humans farm plan
known as the Brannsn plan after the
Secretary of Agriculture though orisi-
mated by the C1Ol, and the Presidents
plan for compulsory health insurance.
has aroused the wrath OF important DEM
ocratic Senators and Representative
not from the South-who are strongly
opposed to both those items OF the Tru-
man program.
So violent is the feeling becoming that
the committee may be told in no uncer-
tain terms to keep out Of the States and
districts in which these Senators and
Representatives have to run. They
intend TO run their own campaigns and
on platforms and issues in which they
believe.
The use Of the Democratic National
Committee as propaganda agency for
the White House. however, has been gain
ing Roadway during the last two years
indeed, ever since Mr.. Truman obtained
his presidential nomination in le4S.
Chairman Handpicked.
Under the leadership Of the Presidents
handpicked chairman. William NJ. BOYLE,
jr., the committee has galloped along
frequently riding in the faces OF LEADING
Democrats in Congress and in the States
Southern Senators and Representatives
have been aroused over the use OF the
committee and its facilities to press for
the enactment by Congress of the FEpC
and other civil rights measures. That
was to be expected. But the developing
opposition among Democrats Of the North
and West is another matter.
From this point of view, It looks as
though the Democratic campaign for
Congress this fall is going TO be fun OF
contradictions. Senator Lucas, for ex-
ample. Illinois Democrat and majority
leader in the Senate. is violently opposed
to the Brannan plan and to socialized
medicine-as the health insurance plan
is called. But the administration has a
fair-haired boy. former Undersecretary
of Agriculture Albert j. Loveland running
for the Senate in Iowa as a chief sup
porter of the Brannan farm plan. In
deed. Mr.. Loveland's nomination rs the
Democratic candidate for the Senate has
been hailed by the administration as q
great victory-though just how 1t gets
that way is difficult to understand.
President Truman, it has been widely
advertised. is going to campaign for Dem
ocratic candidates for the Senate and
House during the next few months. II he
goes into any States, on the theory that
he can help elect these Democratic can
didates. will he demand the Brannan
plan and socialized medicine in Illinois
as well as in Iowa?
Could Lose Votes for Lucas.
He could lose a lot OF votes for Mr..
Lucas If he did-farm votes which Mr..
Lucas has had with him in the past. The
Democrats have a senatorial candidate in
South Dakota, too, who is antagonistic
to the Brannan plan. What's the Presi-
dent going to do there?
Mr.. Loveland. by the way, an analysis
of the vote in the Iowa primary shows.
got most of his votes not among the
farmers but in the industrial centers, par.
ticularly where the CLIO has strength.
The vote. indeed, followed pretty closely
the line Of the poll published q few days
before the election by Wallace's Farmer.
This poll, taken among Democratic
farmers alone, showed former Governor
Kraschel with Is per cent Of the straws,
Mr.. Loveland with 81 per cent, and for
mer Representative Wearin with II per
cent. The rest were divided among three
other candidates and those who were
non-committal. The Iowa farmers, APP
parently, are not rushing to the support
OF the Brannan plan. for Mr.. Loveland
alone supported the plan. Mr.. Kraschel
campalgned on an anti-Brannan Plan
platform and Mr.. Wearin declared that
the Brennan plan had no proper place
in the primary campaign.
Senator Lucas has played an important
part for years in the development OF the
farm support program. both as member
Of the House and during his two terms
in the Senate. In his State the American
Farm Bureau Federation has 1874 900
members. representative a great many
voters. and the Farm Bureau Federation.
like Mr.. Lucas, does not believe in the
Brannan production payments to farm
ers-the heart of the Brannan plan.