SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, January 35, 195B
Kefauver
Editor's note: This is the second of
four dispatches on the 1956 Demo
cratic presidential hopefuls.
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington vU.R) Sen. Estes
Kefauver has shucked his coon
"skin. cap. With more dignity, if
less sure-fire publicity, he is
campaigning again for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination.
Kefauver is 52. He was gradu
ated by his Tennessee constitu
ents in 1943 from the House to
the United States Senate. He
was re-elected in 1954.
The senator zoomed to national
popularity months before the
1952 Democratic national coiv
vention on public interest arous
ed by his televised investigation
of organized crime. He led the
field on the first two convention
ballots and would probably have
been nominated but for the out
raged opposition of his party
leader.
Kefauver had offended by op
posing and defeating President
Truman in New Hampshire s
1952 presidential primary. It
isn't done. But Kefauver did it
He took his TV show into Chi
cago, spotlighted a policeman
whose bank balance seemed
over-large and contributed there
by to the defeat of Democratic
Sen. Scott Lucas.
Mr. Truman licked Kefauver
with Gov. Adlai Stevenson of
Illinois four years ago. Mr. T,
says he has no favorite this time,
and Kefauver reports they have
made up, if not kissed. Maybe so.
Smoke Clears
Kefauver for a while was be
et on his home grounds when
there was talk that Tennessee's
national convention delegation
would be pledged to Gov. Frank
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Clement as a favorite son can
didate. This would have seri
ously weakened Kefauver's posi
tion. But Clement announced
yesterday he would not be a fav
orite son candidate and urged
the state to send an "unbound,
unpledged and unpressured"
delegation to the convention.
The significant thing about
Kefauver's candidacy this year
is that he is forcing the pace.
He announced his candidacy
Dec. 15," shortly after Stevenson-.
Kefauver Assured of
Tennessee Support
Washington (U.R) Sen
Estes Kefauver's bid for the
Democratic presidential nomina
tion has escaped some possible
embarrassment in his own back
yard. Gov. Frank Clement of Ten
nessee announced yesterday he
has withdrawn as a possible "fa
vorite son" candidate for the
presidential nomination.
He said Kefauver "is entitled
to fair and full opportunity in
his home state."
However, Clement urged his
state to send an "unbound, un
pledged and unpressured" dele
gation to the Democratic Na
tional convention. He is expected
to control the delegation.
Kefauver Grateful
Kefauver said he is "grateful"
for Gov. Clement's generous
attitude."
"To have the full backing of
the people of my state would
certainly help in my campaign,"
he said.
Other political developments:
1. Senate Republican Leader
William F. Knowland pondered
whether to enter the GOP pri
maries in New Hampshire and
Florida. A Florida group open
ed a "Florida for Knowland"
campaign. The senator said he
will look over the New Hamp
shire political battlefield this
week end. He would collide with
President Eisenhower in both
primaries. ' .
2. Adlai E. Stevenson said he
wishes 1 Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles "would practice
what he preaches" about shak
ing confidence overeases. But,
the Democratic candidate for the
presidential nomination said in
stead Dulles is "boasting about
his ability to brandish bombs and
balance on the brink of war."
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Kefauver has signed up for pri
mary election's in Florida, Calif
ornia, New Hampshire and Wis
consin. He is looking Minnesota
over, although the farmer-labor
Democratic organization there is
stacked for Stevenson.
Man-To-Man Combat
But he will meet Stevenson in
Florida and California in any
event a man-to-man combat of
Kefauver's own choosing. So the
chips are down in both states.
Stevenson is the front-runner
organization named three offic
ers: George M. Cheston, Phila
delphia. attorney, as treasurer;
Peter H. Clayton, New York at
torney, secretary and general
counsel; and Richard L. Tobin,
now on leave as public affairs
director of the New York Her
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To Attend Conference
Chief of Police Charles P.
Champlin, president of Oregon
state police chiefs' association,
will attend a traffic safety
roundup in Portland, Wednes
day, Feb. 22.
The roundup, sponsored by
the Highway Lifesavers commit
tee of Oregon Citizens. Inc., will
submit a citizen's program
which will aid official agencies
in reducing deaths, personal in
juries, property damage and
other economic losses from traf
fic accidents.
Reports on the Portland teen
age conference on traffic safety,
driver education study, and the
responsible driving code contest
in Oregon high schools will be
given.
The Highway Lifesavers com
mittee has as an objective the
reduction of the loss of life and
injuries, and the reduction of
economic loss, which in 1953,
when the committee was organ
ized, reached $43,000,000 an
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and stands to suffer most from
defeat. If Kefauver could beat
Stevenson in both states, the
chances of the man from Illi
nois would shrink substantially.
Stevenson and Kefauver each
publicly welcomed the other into
the pre-convention campaign.
The fact is, they are political
poison to one another and each
knows it. But for Kefauver, Ste
venson might have passed up the
primaries altogether. It seems
that he would have liked it that
way.
Another Investigation
The senator has another inves
tigation going now juvenile de
linquency. He's chairman of a
Senate judiciary committee. Sen.
Harley M. Kilgore (D-W. Va.),
chairman of the full committee,
deprived Kefauver of the plum
he wanted. That was chairman
ship of the subcommittee to in
vestigate anti-trust and monop
oly practices in big business.
General Motors recently was on
that griddle.
Kefauver rightly figured there
would be much good publicity in
that subcommittee chairmanship.
Kilgore relented a bit. He depu
tized Kefauver to conduct the
Dixon-Yates phase of the sub
committee's work. But the Ten
nessean has not found a substi
tute for his televised 1950-51
program of big and little punks.
He has some advantage in the
possibility that the party bosses
may not be as stubbornly op
posed to him now as four years
ago. If there was an unbossed
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candidate who was the people's
choice at the 1952 Democratic
convention, Kefauver was the
man. He had boisterous rank
and file support, especially
among younger Democrats. How
ever, if the party leaders are
not actively organizing against
him this year, neither are they
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Dignified
in love with the tall man from
Tennessee.
Can Match Campaign Smils
Kefauver is a big man, fit
for. pro basketball. He isn't
handsome but he almost can
match Ike's campaign smile.
Women always are aware of it
when Kefauver enters a room.
He likes people close up, doesn't
flinch at patting an infant, damp
or dry. The senator has a lot
more of the common touch than
do his.principal opponents, Stev
enson and New York's Gov. Av
erell Harriman. They are city
folks. Kefauver plays the coun
try boy role and does it well.
Outstanding Citizen
He's a New Deal-Fair Deal
candidate, as who isn't, barring
those Democrats who couldn't
be nominated anyway?. He is
solicitous about Mr. Eisenhow
er's health, an attitude general
ly prevalent among Democrats,
most of whom sympathetically
insist it would be inhuman ' to
ask Ike to run again.
. Kefauver recently described
the President as "an outstand
ing citizen of the world." He
said the Republican party was
"an awful load for him to pull
along."
Here are some of his points
of view:
Foreign Policy
As of last November, Kefau
ver figured the administration's
foreign policy "has in large
measure been a failure." He said
the President's State of the
Union message failed "to point
out how the glaring mistakes
of the administration in foreign
policy are to be rectified. And
he told New Hampshire voters
that the U. S. "has been scaring
our friends in the North Atlantic
half to death NATO has been
falling apart at the seams and
has been held together largely
through the efforts of statesmen
of other nations."
Security and Defens .
"I would feel better if the
President's message had given
some assurance that there will
be no further attempt to slash
the Air Force and the Marines,
TVA Starving to Death
The President submitted "a
disgracefully shoddy budget" fbr
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been "starving TVA to death''
for three years and now is trying
to "bleed it to death, too." Mr.
Eisenhower . had proposed that
TVA meet most of its 'future
needs by bond issues upon which
of course, TVA would have to
pay interest.
Farm Promises Said Broken
The day after announcing his
candidacy, Kefauver told a ga
thering of Maryland Democratic
leaders that Republican "brok
en promises to farmers" are
among "the many issues the
Democrats must take to the peo
ple." Kefauver is a high subsidy
man. He objects to Mr. Eisen
hower's program on grounds
that (1) is would provide no im
mediate relief as would a re
turn to 90 per cent of parity
payments- and (2) a "more basic
objection" that the program is
based on a "philosophy of scar
city" instead of surplus to be
used for the general welfare at
home and abroad.
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He says the Democrats must
make a major campaign issue of
the Republican party's "ruthless
broken promise to labor on the
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