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Editor Note: How much do you
know about what’'s happening in
side the two major parties as con
vantion time approaches? Here's
the penetrating story on the sirug
gie for political power, detailed by
JYohn Gunther, one if this genera
tion’s bestknown reporters. This
is the first of his four articles on
the Democratic Party, written ex
ciusively for NEA Service and
the Athens Banner-Herald. They
will be followed by five more “in
s'de” reports on tlie Republican
Party.
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By JOHN GUNTHER
Written for NEA Service
What’s inside the Democratic
Farty?
First, the heritage of Roosevelt.
Second, the paternal influence,
whatever it may be worth, of Mr.
Truman.
“Third, rival candidates, none of
whom hate each other quite as
much as do the leading Republi
can candidates.
Fourth, baffling uncertainty who
the candidate will be.
Fifth, important sectional dif
ferences. '
Sixth, confusion.
Seventh, in spit of Ike and
everything, some modicum of
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The greatest single, overriding
advantage the Democrats have in
the campaign about to be fought,
with no holds barred, is the fact
that the balance of power between
the parties has changed drasti
cally, with the result that the
Democrats are now apparently
the majority party in this coun
try, not the Republicans.
Recent Gallup pools are illumi
nating. The Democrats can ex
pect to poll 39 per cent of the
total vote in 1952, and the Re
publicians 34 per cent
* L
Independents—people, who say
they have no party choice—make
up the remaining 27 per cent and
will obviously decide the issue.
In 1948, the independent vote
went 57 per cent Democratic, 43
per cent Republican. But a poll
taken in March, 1952, upped the
Republicans ~ (among indepen
dents) to 45 per cent, while the
Democrats dropped to 36 per
cent, with 19 per cent still un
decided.
Even so, to win the Democrats
will need to take only six million
independent votes on the basis
of an estimated total electorate of
55 million. The Republicans must
take nine million.
Figures, like delegates, are not
very fixed objects. They may
ehange radically between now
and November, The impact of a
fresh, glowing personality like
Eisenhower might make millions
of voters move about. The Dem
ocrats don't know who their own
candidate will be, and quite pos
sibly he will be somebody very
weak.
So unprecedently fluid is the
whole political picture and so un
certain is the long-run future
that I heard one esteemed spe
cialist say, “No matter who gets
in, he will be a one-term presi
dent.”
* - *
The second great advantage the
Demorcats have, according to
their own special view, is that
the country is prosperous, most
people are getting along fine, and
the average voter is better off
than he has ever been before
Hence, he is going to vote for the
status quo. So reason the Demo
crats.
The Democrats—with substan
tial aid from events—have kept
employment full, and both farm
prices and wages dizzyingly high.
They have not only given a new
measure of security to people at
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iérge; they are in a ‘posmon to
promise more and continuing se
curity.
It is mostly the rich who howl
about taxes, say the Democrats.
As to the poor, they are infinitely
better off, and, no matter whether
you like it or not, there are more
poor people in this country than
rich. Simply look at compara
tive income figures.
Thus the first of the so-called
Democratic advantages - merges
into the second. The American
left-wing electricate outnumbers
the right wing, and the Democrats
—so they say—have the left wing
sewed up.
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Another presumptive advan
tage to the Democrats is that a
whole generation of voters has
grown up knowing nothing but
Democratic rule. Many slightly
older remember as a living, glar
ing fact the crash and repression
that preceded Roosevelt. That
crash can still be whooped up
into a fluorescent topic.
Next, look at issues. The chief
Democratic issue will be the sub
stance of what I have just mem
tioned—security for the under
possessed, good times for all, the
welfare state. The Democrats
will attack the Republicans as
“the party of the rich and the
privileged few, who will forget
about the working people and
bring on another Hoover depres
sion with bread lines and millions
of unemployed.”
Rebuttin g the Republican
charge that they are going to
“socialize” America, the Demo
crats will say that, on the con
trary, their reforms will benefit
the free enterprise system, and
that the net result of the New and
Fair Deals has been to produce
the most prodigious national in
come any country has ever
known.
On budget and taxes, the Demo
cratic viewpoint * is defensive.
Just let a Republican administra
tion try to run this country with
out high taxes, they say.
Third, communism and for
eign policy. The Democrats will
attempt to repudiate the Republi
can accusation that they have
been soft to communism, and will
say that, contrariwise, they have
done a tremedous job in com
bating world communism.
They will .cite the Truman
Plan for aid to Greece and Tur
key, the Marshall Plan, the Eu
ropean Recorvery Program which
undoubtedly made it harder - for
communism to function in west
ern Europe, and the attempt to
stop predatory communism dead
in its tracks in Korea.
* * *
The Democrats asser that the
Republicans, particulary if Taft
is the nominee, would try to pull
out of Europe cut foreign aid,
and endanger world peace. They
say Taft’s isolationism would be
welcomed by the Kremlin.
As to financial aid to Europe,
the Democrats will point out that
a large proportion of the money
‘has been actually spent within
the United States, and has helped
to produce full employment. and
prosperity (no matter what tem
porary strikes may be taking
place). " :
Finally, in the light of all this,
;veh,at will Democratic strategy
First, to hope that Taft will
be nominated because he will be
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the Boys’ Life Magazine; Mrs. Oscar H. Ahlgren, newspaper
columnist, public official and newly elected president of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs: and Elmo Roper
(right), public opinion analyst, author and radio and TV
ogram director, were announced this week as the judges
zt the 17th Annual National High School Essay Contest on
the subject "America Is Everybody’s Business.,” conducted by
the Ladies Auxiliar;ito the V.F.W.
Mrs. Herschel H. Griffith, National President of the or
ganization sponsoring the essay contest. in announcing the
contest judges’ names., also stated that the names of the
winners of the nation-wide competition (which carries 24
cash awards totaling $2,000 and a first prize of SI.OOO and a
xold medal) are tentatively scheduled to be tmnounced on
ugust 7th at the National Encampment of the V.F.W. and
Auxiliary in Los Angeles, Calif.
Thousands of school children throughout the United
states, Alaska and Hawadii took part in the local and state
elimination competitions, which carried varying awards of
scholarships, medals and cash prizes for the winners, in
addition to the national awards offered in the 1951-1352
ladies Auxiliary to the V.F.W. High School Essay Contest
the Democratic leaders think, far |that Taft v:ri—lrbe it.”—_ ’
and away the easiest candidate
to beat. I heard one Democratic
luminary so luminous that I hesi
tate to mention his name say, “I
pray on my knees every night
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Any Democrat, the Democrats
feel, can beat Taft, because if
Taft is running, the Democratic
Party is almcest certain to carry
the pivotal states with large labor
votes, like New York, Illinois,
Pomuylv%ua. New Jersey, Michi
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that am mera‘y ro?oz'til;ig a
gomocrnfic view apd that Taft
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pute this theory iaoltiy.)
teoond, to tr{ to force the Re~
publican candidate, ne matter
who he is, into the furthest pos
sible reactionary position, both
on foreign policy and inin domes
tic issues.
Tomorrow: What—and who—
runs the Democratic Party?
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However, he’d hurry to add that
he also has a special fondness for
daytime serials. You see, he met
his wife when both were perform
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