Evening star., 1954-12-09
The Political Min
The Political Mill
Nee Corthy Has No Place
ToGoifHe Quits COP.
Attack on Eisenhower Only
A Grob for More Headlines
By Gould Lincoln

By Gould Lincoln
Loose talk about Senator Mccarthy
splitting and then taking over the Re-
publican Party is plentiful: also. loose
talk about third political party to be
centered around the Senator from Wis
conSin.
None Of 1t has substance.
Probably no one knows that better
than Senator Mccarthy himself. His
most recent attack on President Eisen-
hover on the ground he is soft toward
Communists looks like a grab for the
headlines rather than seriously made
charge. It's of piece with the McCar-
thy theme that every one who opposes
him Is Communist or fellow trav-
eler.
Senator Mccarthy says he has left
Gen. Eisenhower-thath he regrets urg-
ing the voters to cast their ballots for
the President two years ago, In Wis
consin, the Senator must have for
gotten to urge the voters to vote for
Mccarthy while he was urging them to
vote for Gen. Eisenhower. Senator
Mccarthy was up for reelection in
1852. The President carried Wisconsin
with lead over Adlai Stevenson Of
$4,000 votes, while Senator Mccarthy
was winning over his Democratic OPP
ponent, Thomas E. Fairchild, by only
$4,000. Senator Mccarthy had ex-
pected to lead the Republican ticket in
his home State. too. Senator Mccarthy
did not elect Gen. Eisenhower in 1852,
nor is he likely to defeat him In 1856.
What Course?
If the President is candidate for
denomination two years hence, Senator
Mccarthy, even if he has on his side
the Jenners and the Welkers. is not
going to stop Gen. Eisenhower. And
if the President is renominated, what
course will be open to the Wisconsin
Senator? He can go along with
Gen. Eisenhower; he can revolt and
lead third party he can go over
to the Democrats and support their
candidate, or he can sit on his hands.
The only purpose of his leading third
party would be to prevent the re-
election of Gen. EiSenhower-for Sem
ator Mccarthy could not be elected. He
knows it. Obviously, he will not join
the Democrats. He has to run for re-
nomination and reelection himself in
1883 He couldn't have the Democratic
nomination, and it is beginning to
appear uncertain he can win the
Republican nomination.
So Senator Mccarthy has taken his
place alongside of Wayne Morse of
Oregon as an Eisenhower hater. He
has not, like Senator Morse, resigned
fLo
ably he will make as much trouble TOR
the Eisenhower administration as he
can when the new Congress assemblies.
It will be interesting to see how many
of the Senate Republicans will go along
with Senator Mccarthy in such cam
paign. Senator Knowland of Cali
fornia, the Republican floor leader Of
the Senate, has differed strongly with
the President and Secretary of State
Dulles over policy in the Far East He
has advocated blockade of all China,
and Senator Mccarthy has gone along
with him. Indeed, Senator Mccarthy
has tried to take that issue away from
Senator Knowland. But Senator
Knowland. while he has different ideas
about United States policy in and
toward China, has not broken with
the President or the administration.
1t is expected Senator Knowland will
be fighting for the Presidents pro-
gram when the next session Of Con-
gress opens. He has not said he was
sorry he urged the voters to support
Gen. Eisenhower in 1852.
Little G. o. P. Trouble.
Much has been conjectured regarding
the effect on the Republican Party of
the Mccarthy break with the President
and the administration Democrats,
among them Adlai Stevenson and the
new chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, Paul NJ Butler, re-
gard the inability Of the McCarthyites
and the administration to get along
as a serious rift which will make the
election of a Democratic nominee for
President practically certain. Up to
date, however. the Mccarthy rift does
not appear to have caused too much
trouble for the G. o. P. In the 1854
congressional campaign, Senator Nc
Carthy was not an issue, except In a
few places. A Republican Mccarthy
supporter was defeated in Illinois in
a Senate race, and Republican Nc
in New Jersey. Also. the Democratic
victory for the Congress was by mar
row margin, which would not indicate
that the Mccarthy rift had caused the
G. o. P. great trouble. After all, Sena-
tor McCarthy's supporters are not all
Republicans. In some Of the States.
among them Massachusetts,. many Of
the Senator's supporters are Democrats,
If Senator Mccarthy and his sup
porters undertake to form a third
party, they will run into State laws in
many places which will make it difficult
to get the new party on the ballot. The
late Senator Bob La Toilette, ST., also
of Wisconsin, tried it out in 1924 and
got nowhere. Henry Wallace took q
fling at it In 1948. The most ambitious
and more nearly successful try was
that Of the late President Theodore
Roosevelt. with the Bull Moose Party.
in 1912.
Senator Mccarthy. having been
condemned by the Senate. has now
undertaken to condemn the President.