Evening star., 1951-02-04

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1852 campaign.
Some of his Republican col
extremely difficult to say in Feb
ruary, 1851, what the issues of
the campaign will be in the fall
of 1852. There is a strong feel
ing, too, that tremendously high
taxes and Government controls
OF prices, wages and the general
economy may be uppermost III
the peoples minds when they &c
to the polls. These issues. OF
course, may be traced back to
failures in the administration s
foreign policies, particularly in the
Far East. and to the policy which
in effect. played into the hands
of Communist Russia.
Next to the election of a Repub-
lican President. the toughest jot
which will confront the G. O. P
next year is winning control OF
the Senate.
The political make up of the
Senate is now 49 Democrats and
Al Republicans. Twenty sitting
Republican Senators are up fol
reelection next year. Many OF
them came through the 194e
election with flying colors because
of the strong Republican trend
that year. Some of these Sen
ators may run into severe con-
tests from Democratic opponents
On the other hand, there are
few of the IL Democratic Senators
up for reelection whom the Re-
publicans can hope to defeat.
In 13 of the States where Re
publican Senators must stand fol
reelection there may be strong
Democratic opposition. These
are Missouri, Washington. Nevada
Montana. Michigan, Massachu.
setts. Ohio. Indiana. New York
Utah, Wisconsin, Delaware ano
California. In most of these
States, Republicans may be ex-
pected to win-but there are fou1
or five of them where the going
may be really hard, States which
have in the past been predomi-
nantly Democratic. like Missouri
Montana, Washington and Nevada
Mccarthy Solid Now
Seven of the States seem pretty
sure of returning Republican
Senators - Pennsylvania. Nebras.
ka, Maine. Vermont, North Da-
kota. New Jersey and Minnesota
One State, Wisconsin offers 9
senatorial target which the Dem.
ocrats would dearly like to strike
Senator Joe" Mccarthy. whom
the Democrats hold responsible
for what they call Mccarthy.
ISM" effective in the 1850 elec.
tions in many States, must stane
for reelection. But beatins
Mccarthy in Wisconsin ma,
prove as difficult for the Demo
Gratis as beating Taft in Ohio wa
last fall
AS things stand today, Nc.
Carthy would win in walk
Conditions may change in a year.
time, but If the Democrats under.
take to make a general drive
against him, with outsiders goine
into the State. and sending
money there to defeat Mccarthy
such q total effort may well
boomerang. So far the Democrats
seem to have no candidate with
whom they can effectively chal-
lenge the Republican Senator
Senator Ives of New York will
be another difficult man for the
Democrats to defeat. He won
over the Democrats strongest
possible candidate in 1946-Sena-
tor Lehman. Today the Demo
cratic Party in the Empire State
Is shot to pieces. Lehman was
elected over former 1t. Gov. Joe
Hanley last November, but largely
because of the now notorious Han
ley letter, indicating a deal be-
tween Hanley and Gov. Dewey to
get Hanley out Of the guberna-
torial race. No outstanding New
York Democrat to run against
Ives Is discernible.
On the other hand, Senator
KEN Of Missouri. Republican
must run in State which has q
Democratic history. His former
colleague. former Senator Don
nell, went down to defeat last fall
by some 10000 votes, and Presi-
dent Truman carried Missouri in
1948 by 25o,000. There will be
plenty Of ambitious Democrats
seeking the nomination against
KEN, and among those already
mentioned is Gov. Forrest Smith
Senator KEN is already cam
paigning throughout the State
hoping to cover it in much the
same fashion that Senator Taft
covered Ohio in preparation for
the 1850 election.
Republican Senators Cain OF
Washington, Ecton in Montana
and Malone in Nevada are likely
to have real battles on their
hands. Representative Savage OF
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