Evening star., 1952-03-27

The view looks across the rose
has made a good impression and
has drawn good crowds, and he
undoubtedly would be the choice
of a lot of Democrats in the State
whether President Truman runs
or not.
The device whereby Senator
lKefauver obtained slate of dele
gates backed by the Democratic
Organization Committee was un-
usual, to say. the least. The DOC,
as it is commonly called, last
February realized that it must be
prepared to have delegates of its
own choosing sent to the Demo-
cratic National Convention, or
some other slate, like the Brough-
ton slate, would be elected.
So it formed a pool Of delegate
candidates, in all 10 congress
sional districts, and for delegates
at large. It was ready then to
give a slate to any acceptable can
didate for presidential nomination
who entered the State. President
Truman was not entering. nor did
they know whether he would run
at all. So when Senator Kefauver
announced he was filing in the
Wisconsin primary, the DOC
offered him a slate Of delegates.
The Tennesseean accepted the
offer and his slate of delegates
went on the ballot. At the same
time. the DOC entered Mr.. Fox
as a favorite-son candidate for
the presidential nomination, IA
vorable to the denomination of
President Truman.
Fox Delegates Concede Defeat.
Even the delegates pledged to
Mr.. Fox, however, will tell you
they expect the Senator Kefauyer
slate to win. making it easy to see
how the wind is blowing. They
are not going to let the Brough-
ton slate win if they can help it.
The contest in the Democratic
primary may hold Democrats
away from the Republican presi-
Dental primary, the Doc leaders
say. Without a real race in their
own primary, many Democrats
might have slipped over to cast
ballots for the Warren or Stassen
states in the Republican race
and many may still do so. The
voters in Wisconsin are under no
compulsion to vote in their own
party primaries. When they go
into the voting booths they are
handed a Republican and a
Democratic ballot, and they can
vote whichever one they desire.
Where there are voting machines
they have the same privilege.
Taft Fighting Hard.
Senator Taft wound up a long
days campaigning with a major
speech in the University of Wis
consin fieldhouse here last night.
The Ohioan is keeping up his
rugged campaigning in Wisconsin
right up to the end of the week.
He is taking no chances, over
looking no bets in this fight,
which is crucial to his interests.
He must make a good showing in
Wisconsin or his campaign will
take a body blow from which it
would probably never recover.
One Of the leading Warren dele
gate candidates in the Republican
primary, who did not. wish to be
quoted, said today he was now
convinced that Harold E. Stassen
would win no delegates at all; that
Mr.. StaSSen has no ground roots
support in the State. and that
Stassen'S surprise announcement
he would turn half of the delegates
he won over to Gen. Eisenhower
on the first ballot in the Republic
can National Convention had dis
gusted many Of his supporters, who
would now turn to Warren or to
Taft. He further charged that Mr..
Stassen was deliberately playing
into the hands of the pro-Taft
Coleman organization.
Labor Seen for Warren.
He said that he believed the
labor vote in the State would move
into the Republican primary and
vote for Gov. Warren of Califor-
MIA. This is a considerable vote
in both Milwaukee. Racine and
other industrial cities.
His prediction was that a great
Eisenhower sentiment would send
"a lot of voters into the Warren
camp, since all the Warren dele
gates had pledged themselves to
vote for Gen. Eisenhower If and
when it became apparent
Warren could not be nominated,
One Of the things operating
against the Warren slate of dele
gates. however. IS the unwilling
ness of some Republicans, even
though they favor Gov. Warren
or Gen. Eisenhower, to vote for
the old La Toilette ProgreSsives
who are on the Warren slate, like
former Gov. Phil La Toilette
Secretary Of State Fred r. Zin-
norman and Ralph M. Immell
How effective this may be is a
guess. but the Taft organization
lis relying on the old opposition
to the La Follettes to be effective