EIOHT MEDTORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday. Juae 28. 19SS
Left-Wing Liberals Will Gain
Most From Harriman's Warning
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By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington U.B The left-
wing Liberal party stands to
gain the most from Gov. Aver
ell Harriman's
warning to
Democrats
that they must
hold such
th.es as New
York to elect
a Presi dent
this year.
That was
H a r r i man's
i.. i. c wiuoa cnaiienge ut
Southern Democrat who take a
dim view of his presidential
candidacy. He made it at the At
lantic City governor's confer
ence. The liberals are a splinter
group in New York state con
fined largely to New York' City.
They can deliver well upwards
of 260,000 votes of the 5.000.000
or more which New Yorkers
generally cast.
It isn"t very many, but it is
enough. In the present state of
New York politics, the Demo
crats need the Liberals to lick
the Republicans. It is a tail-wags-the-dog
situation, but no less
real because of that. For ex
ample, take the 1954 returns
which elected Harriman gover
nor of New York and put him
on the White House trail.
Harriman had a pluralty of a
scant 11.125 votes in a total poll
of 5,161,000. Of the total Harri
man vote, 264,093 were cast by
Liberals who also had nominat
ed him for governor. Harriman
would have lost by more than
250.000 votes without the lib
eral endorsement and Sen. Irv
ing M. Ives would be today the
Republican governor of New
York.
FamedOregonWoman
Pilot Dies in Texas
Corpus Christl (U.B Edith
Foltz Stearns, the first woman
in the Northwest to receive a
commercial pilots' license and
one of Oregon's most famous wo
men fliers died here yesterday,
following a short illness.
Mrs. Stearns had been serv
ing as a link trainer Instructor
for the Navy here until she was
taken ill.
She wsx the fifth woman in
the nation to obtain a commer
cial pilot'i license and the first
woman to fly airliners commer
cially. ,
During World War II she
served with the Air Transport
Auxiliary for 42 months in Eng
land, ferrying unarmed bombers
from factories to bases.
She was winner of national
air races in 1929. 1930. 1931 and
1932 and had logged more than
5000 hours in the air.
The Democratic party in New
York state under such circum
stances is in many ways the cap
tive of a small, left-wing splin
ter party which has the balance
of power. The Democratic party
in New York state must shape
its policies very much to meet
Liberal party standards or lose
Liberal support. That goes, too,
for Harriman as candidate for
the Democratic presidential
nomination. The Liberal party,
therefore, looms mighty big in
the Democratic picture. Its ideas
may have considerable effect on
the Democratic platform. -"
This would be much less than
the situation if New York stood
alone in that relationship be
tween the Democratic party and
left-wing elements. It is not
alone, however. Way back in the
Roosevelt administration there
was a legal merger in Minnesota
of the comparatively radical
Farmer Labor party with the
Democratic party. There is no
mere Democratic party in Min
nesota now. nor has there been
for some years.
Mr. Rosevelt's strategy shifted
Minnesota from its Republican
moorings, apparently for keeps.
There was the beginning this
week of something .similar in
North Dakota. There the Non
partisan League abandoned its
old Republican ties and threw in
with the Democrats.
Minnesota and North Dakota
will be standing with New York
at the Democratic national con
vention pressing for the kind of
platform which conservative
Southerners do not want but
upon which northern Democrats
and their left-wing allies will
insist.
Those three are the only
states in which the Democratic
alliance with well-organized left
wing elements is so plainly in
view. In Michigan, however, the
alliance is no less perfect be
tween the Democratic party as
led by Gov. G. Mennen (Soapy)
Williams and Walter Reuther's
CIO Men and Women.
Reuther's principal political
objective appears to be a na
tional left-wing party supported
by farmers and laborers. His al
liance with the Democrats in
Michigan is already that in many
ways, and it is a state-wide
powerhouse. These states are
not alone, but they are notable
among the northern Democratic
alliances with the left.
All of this raises disturbing
questions for Southern Demo
crats who, politically speaking,
don't want to go so far so fast.
State GOP Treasurer
Won't Be Candidate
Portland OJ.R) Henry
Buehner, Republican State Cen
tral Committee treasurer, said
today he would not be a candi
date for reelection when the
committee holds its organiza
tional meeting here July 14. -
Buehner said the press of per
sonal business and other politi
cal activities made it seem advis
able for him not to seek reelec
tion. Walter Evans Jr., a pre
cinct committeeman, announced
he would be a candidate for the
position.
Other officers will be candi
dates to succeed themselves.
They include Wendell Wyatt, As
toria, chairman; Mrs. Margaret
von Lubken, Portland, vice
chairman, and Mrs. Frederic W.
Young, secretary.
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