Evening star., 1952-10-26
Eisenhower is Backed
By Chicago Tribune
with Reluctance
BY the Assoeiated Prsss

CHICAGO. Oct. 25.-The Chi
cago Tribune tonight advised
voters to vote for Gen. Eisen-
hover. Republican candidate for
President.
The Tribune said it recon-
mended Gen. Eisenhower with
reluctance" and that he was "far
from ideal" but preferred to Gov.
Stevenson"
The newspaper, Republican in
its national political sentiments.
had not indorsed any presidential
nominee earlier in the campaign.
But in an editorial written for its
Sunday editions it said:
"Our ADVICE to them (voters)
If they wish it, is to vote for Gen
Eisenhower.
Calls Him Far From Ideal.
The editorial set forth:
Perhaps the strongest Of argu-
mentS for Gen. Eisenhower's elec-
tion is the probability that it will
carry with it strengthening Of
the anti-socialist. Republican voice
In Congress.
"The bigger the vote for Eisen-
hover, the better the chances Of
election for Republican Senators
and Representatives.
Though Gen. Eisenhower is far
from an ideal candidate and
though he is indebted to the un-
desirable element in his party, he
is to be preferred to Gov. Steven
son, whose attitudes are far more
pernicious and whose dependence
is on even less desirable elements
IN his party"
In recommending Gen. Eisen-
hover with reluctance" the
Tribune, whose editor and pub
Usher is Col. Robert r. McCor-
mick, said:
I'VE do not believe that the
general is we'll equipped for the
presidency. We doubt that his
experience as a military leader
has qualified him for the very
very difficult tasks of political
leadership.
Attacks Foreign Concepts.
"He knows and has thought far
less about domestic questions than
o prospective President should.
His concepts of the proper role of
America in foreign affairs seem to
US to be mistaken. generally to be
1ndistinguishable from those of
the New Deal, and to invite wholly
avoidable difficulties and perhaps
even disasters" !
The editorial said Gen. Eisen-
hover. in his campaign, had
shown a disposition to trim and
waver." It also said:
"He spoke the language of Mid
die Western Republicans while
touring the Middle West. but
when he got back East, at Newark,
N. j.. he denounced the McCarran
immigration Law, passed over Mr..
Truman'S veto, and gave very
much the kind of me, too per-
formance that Mr.. Dewey staged
four years ago."
The Tribune said it is likely
that Gen. Eisenhower, if elected,
will remain under the influence"
of the Dewey-Lodge wing OF the
g. o. P.
Comment on Stevenson.
Editorial comment on Gov. Ste
venson, democratic nominee for
President, included:
"Mr. Stevenson, as governor OF
Illinois, has disclosed only medi-
ocre talents. The cigarette tax
scandal, the horse meat scandal,
the New Orient mine disaster, all
measure his limitations.
"He knew (after his nomina-
tom that the big city machines
would go along with him because
they had no place else to go. To
the labor bosses, however, he made
the deepest obeisance."
It said Gov. Stevenson had pro-
claimed himself a Trumanite in
all significant matters. It added:
ION domestic questions he will
be no better than Mr.. Truman,
and on foreign policy he will be
worse because he really believes
In the Acheson giveaway program
and the multiplication of Ameri-
can commitments to war every