The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-12
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BY The Associated Press

Stevenson met today in Washing
ton for historic talks during which
the Illinois governor may ask Tru
man not to steal his thunder in
the presidential campaign ahead.
StevenSon's packed six hour
visit to the capital - particularly
his private talk with Truman - is
certain to be sharp test of his
diplomacy.
This was the picture - and the
speculation - before Stevenson
flew in from Springfield:
The President wants to make a
free hitting whistle stop cam
paign tour lambasting the Repub-
licans and plugging for the Demo
cratic candidates. But he has said
he will do what Stevenson wants
him to do.
The Illinois governor Is expected
to tell the President he will be glad
! to have his help - but not to such
a degree that his own campaign
efforts will be forced to secondary
play on front pages and in news
casts.
Aside from that, there Is another
! important angle: Stevenson al
ready is trying to brush off charges
of some Republicans that he is a
"captive candidate" of the Truman
administration. He wants to run on
his own.
His busy schedule in Washing
ton called for briefing on the in
ter-national situation by Truman,
Secretary of State AcheSon, Gen.
Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mutual Sc
curity Director AvereIl Hartman
and others; a luncheon with the
President and his Cabinet at the
White House: and later, the all
important private talk with the
President.
On the Republican front, Gen.
! Dwight D. Eisenhower scheduled
! conference today with Allen
Kline, president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation.
1t is another of series of talks
on agricultural matters. He al
! ready has conferred with eight Re-
publican members of the House and
Senate Agricultural Committees.
He said 1--WE found ourselves in
very general agreement"
The congressman said in a state
ment that Eisenhower sis going to
present positive, forward looking
farm policies. One said Eisenhow-
er told him he favors continuing
, some form of price supports for
farm products.
The COP presidential nominee
told a news conference late Mon
day "the outlook is not too bright"
for a durable world peace unless
Americans gain a better under
standing of the problems involved.
He said the need is for "some-
thing positive and constructive"
that he believes "the Republican
Party can do the better job" and
invited Democrats to vote for him
| in November.
He lodged efforts by newsmen
to draw out details of his cam
paign. He said it's still in the plan
mig stage. AS to his prospects in
the South, he said Southerners have
told him 1--WE have a fighting
chance" in some states, but he
doesn't expect to sweep Dixie.
Harold Stassen, who campaigned
unsuccessfully for the COP nomin-
alton, is due in Denver tonight,
and is scheduled to lunch with the
general Wednesday.
Stevenson also met with a de-
feated opponent - Sen. Estes Ke-
fauver of Tennessee. The two
talked for three hours late Monday
in Springfield.
Kefauver said later they dis
cussed campaign strategy in var
ious states, and Truman's part on
the coming campaign. Kefauver
said he suggested that it would be
q good dea to look to young peo-
pie" rather than regular party
chiefs, but had told Stevenson
young people in some states coult
"carry on a more vigorous cam
paign."
Other political developments:
Idaho and Arkansas held state
primaries today. In the Arkansas
election, interest centered around
Gov. Sidney McMath's battle for a
Truman endorsed third term
Democratic nomination against
Judge Francis Cherry, seeking his
first statewide office.
The Democrats for Eisenhow-
er dropped a plan to present the
COP nominees name for endorse
ment at the Mississippi Democratic
Convention.
Sen, Joseph Mccarthy (R. Wis. }.
recovering from a ma jor operation,
said in Hayward, Wis. that Horse
meat Adlai should brush the odor
OF Alger Hiss off his toga before
he advises Eisenhower. He
referred to disclosures that horse
meat was sold for human consump-
ton in Illinois. and TO Stevenson s
deposition on Hiss character In the
latter's perjury trial.
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