The Wrangell sentinel., 1956-08-03
THROUGH THE SENTINEL TELESCOPE
Conventions

uleu LU uUmlnate the August scene. l ue Democrats kick of ill Chicago august I3 to name their Presiden- Ilal nominee and the following week, August. 20, the Republican rally ill San Francisco probably Io re-nomInate President Eisen- hover ana 1lgnt about who will be the vice presidential nominee.
 In the Democratic camp Adlai Stevenson stock took sharp surge upward thls week when Tennessee $ kstes kefauver withdrew as a can didate and urged support for Stev- enson. ketauver was credited with having 164 F delegate votes in p states and Alaska. Stevenson is be- ing given 371. If the Kefauver votes go solidly to Stevenson, he'd come up with a neat total of 535. It takes 6S6 l2 votes, or a bare ma Jorlly Of the 1872 delegates, to nominate.
 Stevenson supporters were say ing their man would be nominated DrIore the third ballot. However, a couple of traditional smoke-filled looms and anything could happen. Gov Averell Hartman of New York, with a solid block of home state votes and Tammany's De auplo to carry the bail, couldn't be counted out and there were several other prominent sO-called favOrite sons such as Senator Stuart Sym ington of Missouri whose eight-vOte delegation is instructed to vote Symington down the line. Of course, they could wind up like the Alaska delegation of four years ago which was still voting for kefauver after Stevenson had been nominated.
 In San Francisco, the Republi- cans promised to be Eisenhower minded and the fracas was expect ed to resolve around the choosing of d vice presidential nominee. Min nesOtas Harold StasseL member of Eisenhower so-calied team, had ignited a potent bomb. He had proposed that Vice President Rich ard Nivon be dropped from the ticket in favor of Gov. Christian Herter of Massachusetts. The re- suit: Ike gave his team-man Har old a 30-day leave of absence to pursue his own political activities. Whether Stassen would be back on the squad remained to be seen, but it was indicated that If he didn't make it, he was going to try and sae that Nixon didn't get t5 either.
 The vice presidency wa@ import ant to the one-man Republican party The President and their only avowed candidate had suffered a heart attack while in office More recently he had undergone an oper- atiOn. all of which made the Ques- tion of his health for another four years in the presidential chair a political matte- Some voters doubtless would be looking over the vice presidential candidate. a political oddity. and the Republi- cans were aware of it. particularly. it appears, MT. StaSsen.
 There was one certainty. Some body would get nominated by both parties. the world would go on in its usual routine; politicians would rise and fall The indispensable man had not yet been found which is probably a good thing.
 Chairman Resigns
 No help wanted" ads had yet appeared, but First Division Demo- crats were looking for new chair man this week. Tom Stewart of Juneau, who has been heading up the organization. resigned as of July 31 for what we would con slider good and sufficient reason. Wrote he to the committee mem bers
 "The interests of my newly-ac- quired family. including four small children, dictate relinquishing vir- tually all activities outside of my profession and the rearing of the children. I cannot cOnscientiously take from them the time and effort required outside of regular work ing hours by the demands of the committee chairmanship
 A man of parts. indeed. and our suggested nominee when those children are raised.
 Barnes to Convention
 The Wrangeli-Pe area will be represented first hand at the San Francisco convention. Sen. ator Doris Barnes was packing her bags this week for a swing up to Fairbanks for an insurance meet ing and then San Francisco bound. The Senator. as we get it. will have no objection to the nomina- tion of Nixon
 Hot Contest
 Stun Nelson of the Seattle P-I.
 (continued on Pafe Four}