The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05
Political
Notes


dicted today the South will remain
solid this November despite rum
blings of Dixie dissatisfaction with
the party platform.
The democratic presidential
nominee, Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson
of Illinois, said Southern political
leaders have given him "hearfen.
ing evidences" of the fidelity of
the South to the Democratic Party
in this campaign"
Two Democratic senator's TODAY
gave him more reason for Opt
mism: Russell Long of Louisiana
and Theodore F. Green of Rhode
Island said in separate interviews
the Republican candidate won't
win q single Southern state.
COP Nominee Dwight D. Eisen-
hover and his party are counting
heavily on splitting the South over
the civil rights issue, offsetting
the heavy edge Democrats have
over Republicans in vote registra-
tons.
Both candidates had busy sched-
ules today. Eisenhower flies to Los
Angeles to make his first major
speech since his nomination, and
Stevenson set up appointments
with two White House intimates
to talk over campaign plans.
Also jockeying for political head
lines were three primaries, in Mis-
souri-where President Truman is
taking part-and in Michigan and
Kansas.
The Negro vote-and which way
it might swing-continued to fig
ure prominently In campaign cal
culationS.
Eisenhower has said handling of
the explosive civil rights issue
the one Negroes and other minority
groups are most interested in
should be left mainly to the states.
Most Negro leaders are against
this principle.
But after a meeting with Eisen-
hover Monday, a group of Repub-
ican Negro leaders who said they
represent organizations with three
million members came out fatty
for him. This Immediately aroused
speculation over whether he plans
| to change his civil rights stand.
Stevenson didn't seem to be wor-
ried. He said:
81 can hardly see why the Ne
gro vote can find any happy refuge
In the Republican Party"
Eisenhower'S Los Angeles speech
will be before the annual encamp-
ment of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars (about 8 pm. EST. He said
it will be non-political and will
deal with his ideas about good gov.
eminent and the role veterans can
play in achieving it.
StevenSon's two appointments
are with Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan and Clark Clifford, for.
mer special counsel to Truman,
Wednesday he has a conference
scheduled with Sen. Richard Rus.
sell of Georgia, and later another
with Sen. Estes Kefauver of Ten.
nessee-both losers to Stevenson
for the nomination.
The Illinois governor hailed the
Russell-Kefauver meetings as fur
Their evidence he faces little worr,
about losing the South and its big
bloc of electoral votes.
OF the three primaries, major
interest conferred on the one in
Missouri, where Truman has open
ly endorsed Attorney General ]. E.
(Buck) Taylor for the Democratic
nomination for u. S. senator. On.
posing Taylor is Stuart Symington,
one-time key man in Truman's ad.
ministration.
The Taylor Symington race
cracked the Missouri Democratic
Party into two feuding camps, and
pitted the well-known Pendergast
organization against a new faction
headed by Sheriff Thomas F. Cal
lanan.
Michigan dominates candidates
for governor, Senate and House.
Kansas for governor and House
seats.
Other political developments:
Elder Statesman Bernard Ba-
ruch said he wants to see which
presidential candidate "has the
greater wisdom and fortitude" 10
beat initiation before he decides
whom to back. Both, he said, are
able men.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle Is
breaking tradition: II said EDITOR.
| ally today it is backing Eisenhow-
er, the Republican candidate.
Sen. Paul Douglas 3D. Ill., who
pulled at the Kefauver-for -Presi.
dent bandwagon until 1t broke
down, said he viii campaign &C.
lively for Stevenson.
Sen. Everett NJ. Dirksen (R.-
fn0, in the opening Republican
blast against Stevenson, said Ste
venson is rapidly becoming known
as Illinois worst governor since
the turn OF the century" Dirksen