Milford chronicle., 1951-12-14
Williams Is Gaining
For Second Place
On COP Ticket

The drive to nominate Senator
John J. Williams (R-DeD as vice
president on the 1852 Republican !
ticket is gaining force, despite the
fact he is not giving it any sup
port
Washington political writer's are
giving credence to the boom launch
ed by Delaware Republicans for
their "favOrite son" because it is
becoming apparent that the income
tax scandals will be one of the
major issues of the 1852 campaign.
National news magazines have
been discovering the Delaware
senator and are rushing to do pro-
files on his life and background.
His picture this week decOrates 49,
cover of United States News q
World Report" =
He is in demand for radio and
televisiOn brOadcasts, and is eager
" sought by newspaper reporters
during his visits to his Washing
ton Office.
Only rarely have the major pO-
litical parties looked for a ma
tiOnal candidate in a state as small /.
as Delaware. They prefer a hook !
mp, such as the Dewey-Warren tic /
ket, which unites states like New /
York and California.
Yet this is not a sure-fiTe for /
mula for political success. Dewey /
carried New York only by a narrow !
margin on the basis of Henry Wal !
lace's inrOads into the normal DEM /
Ocratic vote. Warren lost CalifOr /
MIA.
On the other hand, the Demo- /
Gratis nominating men from adj !
Joining states, Truman of Missouri, /
and Barley of Kentucky, in de- |
fiance of all the supposed rules of !
the game. won a sweeping triumph. !
Oregon, with six electoral votes, /.
is the smallest state in recent years |
to contribute a vice presidential /
candidate, the late Senator Charles /
L. McNary. making the race with /
Wendell Willkie in 1910.
Williams is a natural" accord !
ing to political observers in Wash
ingtOn, being the man who can I
most effectively present to the +.
public evidence of widespread |
wrong doing in the Democratic ad- |
ministratiOn because he is the man
who has uncovered so much of it. T.
Escapes Partisan Charge
Further. since he attacked Re /
publican Chairman Guy Gabriel /
son for the latter's activity in con-
nectiOn with an RFC loan, viii .
liams escapes the charge that he is /
merely indulging in par,isanship
and would be willing to excuse
members of his own party for acts
he considers unethical if commit /.
ted by Democrats.
In view of the fact that the DEM
Ocrats are rumOred to be getting
ready to lower the boom" on a
prominent Republican Senator in
an attempt to take the heat off
their own scandals, this record of (
impartiality is an important asset /
for Williams.
Senator Williams has already .
cOnfdentially named two or three /
of his own Republican colleagues /
as men of whose ethics he is sus-
piciOus, and he is quite likely TO
give them the same dressing down
he has given GabrielsOn if TumOrs
that they have accepted favors or ,
fees for their influence in Wash
ingtOn prove to be true. +
Called Logical Candidate
With Senator Williams thus cap
turing the popular imagination as
one honest man in Washington de-
termined to see the government
cleaned up regardless of whose
toes are stepped on in the process, /
the COP has a logical candidate
for the No. 2 spot, man likely to
be. acceptable to any of the candi-
dates now in the field for the COP
Presidential nomination.
Senator Williams voting record
has been pleasing to party cOnser-
yatives, while the party liberals,
noting his steady movement away
from the ultra-cOnservative Jen-
ner-Kem- -Bricker midwes-
tern bloc in the Senate, regard him
as man of Independent judgment
He has associated himself more
and more with the eastern liberal
faction in the party. such as Sen
atOr SaltOnstall (R-Mass), and Sen
atOr Robert F. Hendrickson (R-ND,
rather than The Midwestern isOla-
tiOnists.
Thus. William stands close to
the middle in the Republican party,
and has a rising national reputa-
ton. Those are the assets which
cause observers in Washington to
think that Delaware Republicans
are doing more than indulging in
pardonable state pride by recon-
mending Senator Williams to their
party for 1852.
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