Evening star., 1951-10-04
The Political Mill
Pro-Eisenhower Forces
Have No Substitute Plan
Yet Warren of California
Could Be Mon Nominated
By Gould Lincoln

GAlL1NBURG, Ienn., oct. 4.-Ihe
pro- antiTaft Republican
leaders-many of them among the Re-
publican Governors - seemingly have
made no plans for substitute for Gen.
ike" should he either decline to run or
fail to make the grade for the presiden-
tial nomination in the 1852 party con-
vention. Gov. Dewey of New York, who
has been an ike" booster for more
than year and is one of the most
active workers in the Eisenhower vim
yard, when asked whether a line of
retreat to another candidate has been
. considered, laughs and says mo"
It is obvious, however, that the Re-
publicans who do not believe Senator
Taft can be elected or do pot like his
stand on foreign policy, or both, may
be faced with this problem of second
choice. Some of the Governors and
Senators in this camp are hoping the
lightning may strike them-and so
are not so anxious to start boosting
anyone else.
Warren Possible Selection.
The Governor of California, Earl
Warren, springs to mind as a possible
selection. He is from a large and i'm
portant State-now second only to
New York in number of votes in the
Electoral College. An attractive figure,
people like him. He is credited with
having been an excellent chief execu-
tive. But there are Republicans who
feel that he. like Senator Taft, might
not win. and there are others who
whisper he is too much to the left.
They say he has his own leanings toward
socialiZed medicine and public distribu-
ton of electric power. No, they say. he
Is not the man. In the meantime, Gov
Warren is artistically saying nothing
for or against Messrs Eisenhower or
Taft. He is just attending to his own
knitting, perhaps hoping for support
from both camps should the conven-
ton be deadlocked
That Gov. Warren may be a real fig
ure in the Presidential race may be
cleaned from the efforts which certain
of the ardent Taft supporters are max
ing to discredit him. Take, for example.
Gov. Bracken Lee of Utah, who is carry
ing the Taft torch. Gov. Lee singles
out Gov. Warren for attack, saying he
could not trust him and that he does
not stand for Republican principles.
though the Taft forces had come to the
conclusion Gov. Warren is the man they
will have to defeat in the Republican
National Conventional Gen. Eisenhower
is out of the picture.
Those in the Eisenhower camp who do
not want Gov. Warren hastily point out
there are number of other good presi-
Dental possibilities. For example, Gov.
DriScoll of New Jersey-who is privately
listed as willing to go along with Ike"
if the general is available. There are,
too. Harold E. Stassen, president of the
University of Pennsylvania, who still has
support in Minnesota of which he was
Governor and elsewhere, and Senators
Lodge and Saltonstall of Massachusetts.
Gov. Peterson of Nebraska, and Senator
Dirksen of Illinois.
Dewey Influence Strong.
The Dewey influence might 90 to Gov.
Driscoll-lf Ike were out of the picture.
Certainly it would not go to Senator
Dirksen, bracketed with Senator Taft
in the minds of Republicans who believe
the Ohio Senator too isolationiSt. There
are some who contend that if Senator
Dirksen were the Republican presidential
nominee, the Democrats would not cam
palgn against the Illinois Senator-but
against the Chicago Tribune and its
publisher, Col. Robert Mccormick. In
deed, Senator Dirksen is placed in the
Taft camp, and would be the choice of
many OF the Taft people if the Ohio
Senator should be unable to win the
nomination.
Gen. Eisenhower's strong position in
this presidential race today is due to
the fact that the great mass of Republi-
cans-probably all of them down deep
believe that he can win. That goes for
Taft Republicans as we'll as others. Con-
trast that with the fact that many Re-
publicans do not believe that Senator
Iaft can Wln-and fear that neither
Gov. Warren nor any of the other po-
tential candidates may win.
weakness in the Eisenhower position
lies IN the fact Gen. Douglas Macarthur
is strongly opposed to his nomination
and is in the Taft camp. Gen. Mac
Arthur, it is reliably reported, would go
into any presidential primary election in
which Gen. Eisenhower was entered
the popular Macarthur support, might
sink the Eisenhower boom without trace.