Evening star., 1952-02-26
The Political Mill
I aft 500-MiIe Jount
Set'in New Hampshire
Will Make 70 Appearances
In Drive to Win Votes
BY Gould Lincoln


When Senator Taft announced he
would permit his name 70 remain In
the New Hampshire presidential prefers
efioe. primary and delegate candidates
TO file for him. he realised he was IN A
f1ehtl That, however, Il something the
Ohlo senator does not back aWAy from,
Nor does he let 10 10 BY default, on
tfe contrary, Mf Taft "A oil set for A
00Usfffile jauftl carrying him % every
part 0i New Hampshire tie VIII beelh
these fAvels IN Manchester, In three
HaySl March Q, ana 4, he Will make
10 iiAj0P pubile appearances
speeehes=And deliver Flha principal
east " - WV"
The Senator will travel bV Autem0s
blleEAnd q blS wlll DO provided leP the
reporters ana photographers who 10
WIN hlmr He IA scheduled m mako
nine steps the hPgt day seven the secs
ono and AlF ON the third one ef hls
main speeches VIII be delivered In Mans
chester Friday nlRht, and he viii wind
Hp the tFlp with a speeeh In eeneord
saturday nlRht March a.
" IA no secret thai Senator Taft and
hs campaign managerA are poVDtlng
Mneh on these personal appearances,
Hls friends are counting, TOO, on the
senator's ability M Raln Votea by his
now widely known nAmpalgn teehniaJIa,
which includes informal Maetlnga With
people IN every village and city no
visits,
Technique Paid ON Before
It'a n technique which paid on tre.
mendouHly In his Ohio campaigns eHpss
ciAlly In 1890, whom he won Teseie0tlon
with q lead Of 100000 votes over hIs
Democratic opponent, and carried %
out OF 90 counties In Ohio,
MI, TAfth principal opponent, Gen,
Dwiaht -, Eisenhower, will be 5000
miles away In Europe, barred from cam
pAlahlna or sending any word 10 the
voters by his present military duties,
Under such circumstances II would
appear that Senator Taft had oil the
best OF u. The truth Ia, however, that
Gov sherman Adams and many OF the
party leaders In the stats announced
f0F Gen, Eisenhower long ago and have
been working hard for his nomination,
IN addition, II IA planned by the iEIsens
mower campaign managers 10 send In
some widely known eutsef ustate Repubs
lean speakers 10 offset the Taft dpiye,
by the time the campaign eleses the
hiGht OF March 10, however, they will
know they have been In a real battle,
New Hampshire seemed, at the start.
easily won territory for Gen, Eisens
hewsVer, Indeed, there was great relue.
tanee on the part of the Taft managers
70 nave the Senator enter the primary
4 H9aN Nk 10.
deelslon, win, lose or draw" as he
said, 70 enter the primary, When hs
maze MS announcement January 20,
senator Taft commented that "the poe
litleal machine Of the present State ad.
minlstration Ia openly pledged 10 Gen.
eisenhower" and that evidently the
situation 10 peculiarly 10 the liking OF
the Eisenhower committee" In recent
weeks, Senator Taft and his supporters
have acquired more confidence and 10.
day they expect to make q good show.
Ing In the New Hampshire primaries.
II Senator Taft can break even with
uen, Eisenhower IN this state, In this
fifst OF the presidential primaries, 10
VIII be q great psychological gain for
hiin--.Af1d at the same time, cold
splash tor the Eisenhower campaign.
Vote Could De split.
III New Hampshire, Senator Taft viii
be matched against Gen. Eisenhower
for slate Of delegates 10 the Repubiis
can Nat l6hAl Committee, Delegate Gans
dldates have been iiled, Too, for Gen,
D6ualas Macarthur aa although Gen,
Macarthur has protested he IA not A
candidate FOR The presidential h0fhlnas
tl0hr Blhes Taft and Macarthur are
Feek0hed allies aRainst Eisenhower, this
may pF0ve OF value % Gen. Eisenhower,
On the ether hand, In the presidential
preference primary, the three names
entered are Taft, Eisenhower and HaTs
Old Hr stassen This, 10 some extent
may Aplll the Antlu4aft or pr0rHasens
hover vote Tatt pa0pla ape GIaimlna
Nhal theTe "A fap more strength for their
candidate IN New Hampshire than WAS
believed 70 exist several weeks aa0 One
politically active family In Concord IA
widely, SPLIT, swing IN example Of
alVlaed sentiment In the State RlGhRrd
y, Upton, former Speaker Of tho
House, q delegate candidate favor,
able 10 Eisenhower, Ills brother, Fred.
aFiek y, Upton, Ia Concord city Mans
ageF tor Taft Frederick attended
Harvard Law School with Robert A,
Taft, ", Their father, Robert W, Upton,
Vice chairman OF the Republican State
Committee, . candidate for the guheT.
Material nomination, Ia uneommitted
and has not told his family, II Ia said,
whether no fav0ra Eisenhower or Taft.
New Hampshire sends only II deles
gates 10 tho Republican National cons
vention--and the total menberAhip Of
the convention will be 1905. The In.
terest In the New Hampshire primary
seems out Of All proportion 10 the aise
OF the states vote, The results, hows
ever, will be blagoned throughout the
couhtry--and may have their rspers
CuBslOflA abroad,