Milford chronicle., 1951-03-30
FRIDAY, MARCH 80, 1851
THE PRESIDENTIAL POT SINNERS

THE PRESIDENTIAL POT SINNERS
The people of the United States, and their
government, are confronted by the graVest
possible prOblems+war and peace, eVer-riS-
ing taxes and initiation, more schiSnls between
management and labor, the possibility of
having to support great military force here
and abroad for many years, and so on down
an almost endless list But, in this as in the
other democratic countries where free cleo
tiOns are still held such problems never OBJ
scure the great old game of politics. So the
question of who's going to run for President
in unpredictable 1852 is beginning to be
hot topic of conversation among profession
ais and the rank-and-file alike. First of all,
the feeling is very strong, in both Demo
cratic and Republican circles, that Mr.. Tru-
man will not run again. The Constitutional
amendment restricting any President to not
more than 10 years in the job has been pass
ed and, while it specifically eXempts the in
cumbent it is an indication of public feeling.
Moreover, men close to the President say he
has had enough of the job, and that his fam
ily, whose wishes he respects very strongly,
are fed up with it. Mr. Truman has intimated
that he would like to return to the Senate.
No one knows if he really means this or not
but, if he does, he would have famous
precedent in the case of John Quincy Adams
the rest of his life as a member of the House
of Representatives.
The great question mark is the appealing
and somewhat confusing figure of General
Eisenhower. AS NeWsweek puts it, eff Wash
ingtOn is right about. Harry S. Truman,
there's good chance that General Dwight
d. Eisenhower can get the Democratic NOM
inatiOn for President in 1852 just by asking
for it. Quite few Democrats think he can
CCHr4r ,oaoIvy
enough, some of the most powerful leaders
of the Republican Party want Ike just as
desperately as the Democrats do" In other
words, no one knows whether the General
is a Democrat or a Republican. A profession
al soldier has no politics. After he left the
Army, he gave no public evidence of an at
tachment to either party. And now he is
back in uniform again, so there is small
chance of his clarifying his political posi-
tiOn in the near future. NeWsWeek explains
the Democrats keenness for the General in
these words, 'The Democratic Party is split
wide open on almost every conceivable do
mestic issue. On foreign policy, in contrast,
the party is almost completely united. Ike'S
very VagueneSS on domestic problems there
fore, makes him an ideal Democratic candi-
date. There is nothing in his record that
could ALLEVIATE any of the groups which COM
pose the Democratic Party: the ADA (Am-
conservative SOutherners, the big-city bosses,
the labor-union leaders, the Negroes" That
is certainly not true of other potential Demo-
cratic candidate now visible to the eye.
On the Republican side of the fence, he
has the strong support of such still-pOtent
figures as Governor Dewey. But here he
runs into the powerful Senator Taft, who
clearly wants the nomination for himself,
and who in the view of millions is now "Mr.
Senator now has the inside track, but many
a change could occur by convention time.
One more quotation from NeWsweek indi-
Gates the odd possibilities: eff the parties
follow custom, the Republicans will hold
their national convention first. And as things
stand now, the choice will be Taft or Eisen-
hover. . If Taft gets it, the Democratic
conventions may well open with Ike the
almost unanimous choice"