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TITANS OF THE ELEVENTH ' In his later middle age, John
Pittsburg, Pa. If you want to
know what the Democrats mean
when they claim they are better
7 organized than
than the Re
publicans, this
reporter
would recom
mend a trip to
the 11th Dis
trict of Pitts
burgh's old
Eighth Ward.
I have just
4opb Auup spent a long
M
day laboriously polling this dis-1 so there are.'
Walters is a shrewd and charm
ing man, badly crippled but with
his energy undiminished by his
handicap, and with that curious
expression of serenity that peo
ple acquire who suffer a severe
handicap without giving way to
peevishness or self-pity. He
knows his district intimately.
"There's Democrats there
lots of Democrats here on South
Winebiddle so there are, thank
the Lord," he will tell you. Or
again on Coral St., "There's Re
publicans in those frame houses,
trict's pleasant, tree-lined blocks
of old-fashioned, unpretentious
but shabby houses. The llths
mixed population of working
people, white collar families and
small businessmen looks, on the
surface, like giving Dwight D.
Eisenhower about the same ma
jority that they gave him in
1952.
But after a good part of an
other day given to investigating
what makes the Hth district
tick, I am not so sure my poll
results accurately forecast the
outcome. The truth is that this
little corner of Pittsburgh, which
would be called a precinct in
most parts of the country, is the
private battleground of local po
litical titans; and they do not'
battle on equal terms.
TITAN number one is Alder
man John Walters, the Demo
cratic district .chairman and
leader of the whole Eight Ward,
who rules his bailiwick from a
small, shabby, comfortable old
house at 118 South Pacific ave.
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He has a pleasant mannerism
of emphasizinz his statements by
a repetition introduced by the
word "so"; and he is full of con
fidence. "We're going to carry
the district this time, so we are,"
he says. "I'm sure of it, so I
am."
...
THE opposing titan, and an
even more determined fight
er than John Walters, is the Re
publican district committeewo
man, Mrs. Mary Leonard, a
handsome, sharp-eyed lady, the
wife of a landscape gardener,
who inhabits a shiny, handsome
house at 241 South Atlantic av:.
Mrs. Leonard takes her politics
seriously and is given to suspect
ing dark Democratic plots and
devious misdeeds. None-the-less,
Mrs. Leonard is just as confident
as John Walters that her side
will carry the district.
"Our people love Ike," she
says. "We won last time. We
should win this time despite all
the tricks those Democrats can
play."
The trouble is, however, that
in terms of political organiza
tion, Mrs. Leonard is almost in
the situation of a lone female
fighting off a Spartan phalanx.
The district has its full comple
ment of Republican committee
members four in all but only
Mrs. Leonard has served for a
long time and really knows the
district and its people. The for
mer Republican district chair
man, William Betters, actually
defected to the Democrats when
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the Pennsylvania statenouse in
1954.
...
WHEN the Republicans still
held the statehouse and
some Allegheny county offices,
Mrs. Leonard had a few Repub
licans on the public payroll to
help her out in the 11th District.
Now she has none, whereas in
this one district there is an un
usually high concentration of 26
Democratic office-holders. From
the respected Judge John Ken
nedy, with his wife and four
children at 229 South Atlantic,
down to the lowliest fireman,
they and their families get out
and vote for the Democratic
ticket. And at least eight of them
also help John Walters to round
up other Democratic voters.
Furthermore, the old people's
home of the Little Sisters of the
Poor, standing in its wide lawns
Housewife Mayor
Fights Ciiy Council
College Springs, Iowa U.K
A pistol-carrying housewife
mayor planned to call a show
down meeting today with an all
male City Council to vote on a
salary for her appointed femin
ine town marshal.
Mrs. Roy Simpson, who has
been trying to "show down the
town," appointed Mrs. Harold
Bryson a town marshal, the first
peace officer in this town of 368
in 22 years.
Although Mrs. Simpson can
appointment, the City Council
controls the community's pock
etbook, and has refused to pay
Mrs. Bryson. Enough money for
the marshal's bond, which ex
pired Sept. 1, had to be solicited
by Mrs. Simpson since the coun
cil refused to underwrite the
bond.
Mrs. Bryson, with some help
from Mrs. Simpson, has been
campaigning to stop "reckless
driving by young kids" and the
"shooting of fire crackers" in
the town. They handed out 60
tickets for traffic violations and
disturbing the peace during one
month.
on South Aiken ave., has no less
than 70 inmates; and John Wal
ters' greatest triumph has been
to persuade most of its inmates
to go to the polls. Mrs. Leonard
mutters darkly about senility
and unorthodox inducements,
but she had never 1jeen able to
halt the procession of voting
crones and balloting gaffers. In
a district that does not cast many
more than 700 ballots, a block
vote like this of close to 70 per
sons is a most important factor.
SO THERE you have the equa
tion. Other things being
equal, so far as I could learn by
polling, Eisenhower ought to
carry -the 11th District about as
he carried it in 1952. But other
things are not equal. The Re
publican organization amounts
to the lonely embattled Mrs.
Leonard. The Democratic, organ
ization of John Walters is very
powerful indeed.
Perhaps this superiority of or
ganization was what Pittsburgh's
great Democratic chieftain, May
or David Lawrence, was thing
ing about, when he told this re
porter that this year the Demo
crats would gain 40,000 votes in
Allegheny county, and would
therefore carry Pennsylvania.
At any rate, the 11th District is
a good test of the value of po
litical organization. And the test
is immensely significant, be
cause of the great number of
states where the Republican or
ganization is disheveled and the
Democrats are strongly organ
ized right down to the grass
roots.
Copyright 1956.
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Senator Morse, who has run
always before as a Republican, is
campaigning for the U.S. senate
this year as a Democrat.
I think any fair-minded person
will agree that anyone has per
feet right to change his party
affiliation at any time he cho
oses. Indeed, I think we can all
agree that one SHOULD change
his party whenever he finds him
self completely out of sympathy
with its beliefs and in full sym
pathy with the beliefs of another
party.
So I don't hold against Senator
Morse the fact that he changed
his coat. But I do think we have
a right to be curious about his
REASONS for changing.
THE circumstances suggest that
he quit the GOP in a fit of
temper because he failed to get
from it something he wanted.
That is hardly what one would
call a moral or an ethical reason
for a change of party allegiance.
Back in 1946, when he still
wore his Republican coat. Sen
ator Morse said in a political
address in Des Moines Iowa, as
quoted in the Des Moines Reg
ister: "Liberalism is DEAR in the
Democratic party, and that party
has reverted to its TRADI
TIONAL role of placing political
privilege and corrupt machine
politics, a la the Missouri gang,
above the general welfare of our
people."
SENATOR Morse has always
dramatized himself as The
Great Liberal. Being a great
liberal and feeling that liberal
ism was DEAD in the Democratic
party, how could he change his
coat and go over to the Demo
cratic side as a matter of PRIN
CIPLE?
That, of course, was back in
1946. But in February of 1952
he said in a letter to a North
Bend publisher:
"It is my opinion that the wel
fare of -our country demands
that we bring to an end the na
tionwide disunity among our
people which this (Democratic)
administration has developed.
We just CANNOT run the risks
which would be entailed in four
more years of a Democratic administration."
By Frank Jenkins
his change of political coats
could hardly have been the re-,
suit of a growing conviction on
his part that the Democratic
i party is better for the people of
this country than the Republican
party. As late as the spring of
1952 he was so distrustful of
Democrats that he felt "we just
can't run the risks entailed in
four more years of a Democratic
administration."
So
It seems to me
His change must have been due
to a belief on his part (following
whatever it was that upset him
at the Republican convention in
July of 1952) that it would be
better for SENATOR MORSE if
he became a Democrat than if he
remained a Republican.
IN VIEW of these vigorous ex-
considerable period of time, of
his distrust of the Democrats,
A T THE hearing on termination
of the Klamath Indian res
ervation held at Klamath Falls
the other day by the senate in
terior and insular affairs com
mittee the management special
ists told the committee members
they had been advised by lumber
experts that dumping this vast
tract of timber on the open mar
ket would have harmful econom
ic effects not only on the Kla
math Basin but on the entire
state.
That is true. But something
else is equally true. It would
have harmful effects on the Kla
math Indians. They are the own
ers of this timber. If, by throw
ing it on the market at forced
sale, the price is forced down
materially, it is the Klamath
Indians who will be the losers.
Tuesday, October 23, 1956
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE TVTK
rpHEY shouldn't have to be the
losers. The Klamath Indian
reservation is their patrimony. It
came down to them from their
ancestors. It is all they have
left of the country that belong
ed to their people for imme
morial time. '
If anybody benefited from a
forced sale of this timber, it
would be those who acquired it
cheap. Because of acquiring it at
a low price, they would have an
advantage over their less fortun
ate competitors. We don't want
anything like that to happen. It
would be another case of the
white man robbing the Indian.
I THINK this hearing con
trihntoH miita a little ho
solution of the difficult and com
plicated problem of liquidating
the Klamath reservation. Among
Pyrofechnical Poll
Shows Ike in Lead
Miami- (U.R)' A man with a
"different" kind of political poll
which he says "never has failed"
believes President Eisenhower
will be re-eleced.
Art Briese, pyrotechnician,
based his prediction on his
"pyrotechnical poll" in which he
has painted pictures of President
Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson
in fireworks for state fair
crowds across the country.
"Everywhere, Ike's picture
has drawn the most applause,"
he said. .
Briese said he has conducted
it every election since 1916,
when the first poll correctly
forecast Woodrow Wilson's vic
tory over Charles Evans Hughes.
CHECK BOUNCES
Terrehaute, Ind (U.R) A
used car dealer, Lee Baldwin,
complained to police today that
a man swindled him out of II
automobiles by paying him with
a $21,350 check that bounced.
FOX HAS STRANGE DIET
Lake Orion, Mich. (U.R)
Leon Roach has a pet fox that
eats scrambled eggs and bacon
for breakfast and potato chips
and candy for lunch.
Use Tribuns Want Adt
Driver Gets Award
For Record of Safety
Leslie W. Thomas, 430 N. 4th
st.. Central Point, a driver for
the Greyhound Lines, has achiev
ed a 10-year safety record.
In recognition of having driv
en more than 600,000 miles with
out a preventable accident.
Thmas has been awarded a gold
watch.
He is on the Medford-Portland
other things, it brought out the
fact that termination of federal
control of this 2,000-odd square
miles of .Oregon terrain isn't
just a matter of dollars of set
tling up an estate and dusting
off our hands and saying that's
that.
Two thousand human beings
are involved in these termina
tion proceedings. The human
side of the problem is far graver
than the financial side. That
fact needed to be brought out
and I think it was brought out at
Thursday's hearing.
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