Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-03


Kefauver is now out to tear dow
front-runner standing in the
way of his presidential dream.
The list of top party men with
a mad on" against the lanky
Tennessean, and their reasons
for feeling that way, typifies the
degree to which being "anti-Ke-
fauver" has become a common
dencminator among otherwise
divided Democratic leaders.
First there's Mr.. Stevenson,
still front-runner for the nomi-
nation and boiling mad at Sena-
tor Kefauver's charges which he
figures will hurt him in a No
vember tilt with President Eisen-
hover. These charges-used in
Florida and more recently in
California-are that he is par
tial to corporate monopoly (be-
cause he represented the Radio
Corp. of America in a patent
suit) that he is unfriendly to old
people and the blind because, as
Illinois Governor. he vetoed
pension increases a Republican
legislature had passed without
taxes and appropriations to pay
them and that he is a straddler
who is pro-Negro in the North
and anti-Negro in the South.
Opponents Listed
Lined up in the anti-Kefauver
ranks are a bevy of Democratic
Senators and Governors with
grounds for complaint:
There are, for instance, Sem
ator Hubert Humphrey and Gov.
Orville L. Freeman of Mime
sofa. Their complaint is that
Senator Kefauver challenged
their right to deliver" their
State to Mr.. Stevenson, toured
the State calling them political
bosses and added insult to in
jury by winning the Minnesota
primary.
There. is Gov. Robert Meyner
OF New Jersey. His grievance is
that when he would not pledge
his support to Senator Kefau-
ver's candidacy, the Senator in
vaded New Jersey, called the
Governor a political boss. and
lost.
Add to the list Senator Herbert
Lehman Of New York. In the
middle Of the Oregon primary
campaign Senator Kefauver
charged he was being "jobbed"
by the scheduling Of q Senate
vote on q Niagara River power
bill that required him to quit the
campaign field and hurry back
to Washington. Senator Leh-
man was manager Of the bill.
Mrs. F. d. r., Also
Also signed up is Mrs. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt. She is angry
because Senator Kefauver said
not q word in Florida when his
campaign manager IF. Joseph
"Jiggs" Donohue) cited pro-
Stevenson ads bearing her name
in the Negro press as proof"
that in the North Mr.. Stevenson
was q pro-Negro candidate.
In the anti-Kefauver ranks
along with the rest is Col. Jacob
M. Arvey, ex-boss Of the Chica-
go Democratic machine. His
beef: Implying that 1t was q
racketeer plot. Senator Kefau-
ver's managers in Florida al
legged that Col. Arvey had moved
into Miami Beach CHS winter
home) and dried up promised
contributions to the Kefauver
campaign.
And never forget in the anti
Kefauver listing, his fellow
Southern Senators whose anti
indignation manifesto he pub
licly spurned. Remember, too,
the whole bevy Of Democratic
''moderates" - Senator johnson
of Texas. House Speaker Ray
burn, Senator Symington of
Missouri, and others. They fear
their dream Of interparty peace
will be upset by a traditional,
section-dividing civil-rights row
promoted by the Kefauver forces.
Finally. there is the old enemy:
Harry 8. Truman, who still re-
fers to the Senator as Cow