Evening star., 1954-06-22
The Political Mil
Role of Mccarthy
In Compoign Studied
COP. Chiefs Would Separate
Senator and Red Issue
The Political Mill
BY Gould Lincoln


By Gould Lincoln
What part win Senator Joe Mccarthy
-"and McCarthyism In the
coming political campaign?
Some months ago, when the Wis
consin Republican Senator was under
attack by Adlai Stevenson, the 1851
Democratic candidate for President.
and other Democratic leaders were ex-
coriating Senator Mccarthy and all his
works, the Senator offered to make
himself the principal campaign issue.
This suggestion, however, was not re-
ceived with unmixed joy by the Repub-
licans. More recently, Senator Nc
Carthy, through his differences with
the Army Department and other agen-
cieS Of the Government under the
Eisenhower administration. has become
something less than cherished asset
to the Eisenhower following.
One of the problems Of the Repub-
lican high command. If it is to use
the Red issue" in the coming cam
paign, Is to separate that issue and
Senator Mccarthy. The q. o. p. lead
ers feel that this Communist issue is
legitimate iSsue-to be used against
their Democratic opponents. Not that
Democrats are Communists, but that
the last two Democratic administra-
tions were too soft toward the Reds
and the fellow travellers, while the
Eisenhower administration - without
the aid Of Senator Mccarthy In any
appreciable degree has gone right
ahead turning Communist sympa-
thizers out of the Government, putting
Communist leaders in Jail, deporting
others and preventing many known or
suspected Communists from entering
the United States.
Regards Issue as His Own.
Senator Mccarthy, however, Is not
going to sit around and see any one
take away his Red iSSue-not II he
knows it. And certainly not while he
remains chairman Of the Senate Com
mittee on Government Operations. and
its subcommittee, the permanent Senate
investigating committee. Today, just
as when he offered to make himself
the prime issue Of the 1854 political
campaign, Senator Mccarthy regards
the issue as peculiarly his own.
The hearings in the Army-McCarthy
row have been completed. The sum
total of public reaction is still to be
determined after seeing and listening
to the Wisconsin Senator, Roy Cohn.
his chief counsel, and their opponents
for SO days.
The Republican National Committee
has let 1t be known that it does not
plan to use Senator Mccarthy as Q
speaker in the congressional campaign.
It will not book him to speak for the
party and the Eisenhower administra-
ton hither and yon. But the COM
mittee leaves, of course, the gate wide
open for any Republican candidate for
House and Senate to invite the Wis
consin Senator to come in and help.
The Senator, also. receives many invi-
tationS from organizations all over the
country to be their guest speaker. Indi-
vidual candidates will have to deter
mine for themselves whether they want
Senator Mccarthy to come into their
districts or States.
Has Four More Years.
Senator Mccarthy himself is not up
for reelection. Indeed, he has. four
more years to serve. There is no way.
therefore, to get q direct vote on
Mccarthy anywhere. Indications from
Wisconsin are that he would have no
trouble obtaining Republican renomi-
nation-unless Gov. Kohler should de-
eide to make a bid for the Senate.
Senator McCarthys reception by the
Republican State convention recently
was warm and encouraging to him.
What the Democrats will do about
Senator Mccarthy in the campaign
ahead remains to be seen. II they
attack him that Is, If individual
Democratic candidates attack him
they could lose as much or more than
they gain. For Senator Mccarthy has
a very considerable following In many
parts of the country. and not all Of
them are registered Republicans. Re-
publican candidates are net under obli-
CATION either to praise or attack
Senator Mccarthy. Some Of them may
be pressed by their Democratic oppo-
nentS to say how they stand on Senator
Mccarthy and his conduct Of the
Senate investigating committee. It
seems entirely unlikely that they will
attack Senator Mccarthy. Senator
Flanders Of Vermont. McCarthy's chief
Republican critic In the Senate, like
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for reelection until 1858.
Perhaps the situation will be clar-
flied 70 some degree after the Senate
committee reports on the Army -McCar-
try investigation. It may be expected
that Democratic members Of the COM
mittee will attack Mccarthy and the
Eisenhower administration as repre-
sented by Secretary of the Army
Stevens.