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\ r Thursday, April 17, 1952 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE / Page Three As Washington Sees It... THE NATIONAL SCENE Special To The Chronicle. , Washington, April 15.—^President Truman’s announcement that he would not be a candidate to suc ceed himself still overshadows all governmental news in Washington as the political experts cast about now for a probable Democratic nominee for the presidency. ° This column in the week March 10 to 15 predicted that “It is known definitely that President Truman prefers NOT to run again and his wife and daughter are dead set against his trying for another term.” We pointed out that, al though the President is now physi cally fit and feels he has a life ex pectancy of at least 15 years, anoth er term of four years in the presi dency would probably cut his re maining years in half. Thus, this column attempted, without specific statement, to condition the public to the fact that Mr. Truman did not intend to run again as he an nounced at the ’historic Jefferson- Jackson day dinner in Washington. • * » As a result today in Washington you can get an argument in any hotel lobby or up on the hill or wherever you mav be as to whom the Democrats will nominate at Chicago. Or as a matter of fact as to who will get the President’s nod as his successor. From time im memorial it has been a political axiom that the incumbent Presi dent has much to say about his suc- essor. But this column believes; that 1952, insofar as the Democrats, are concerned, will be an exception to this'rule and that for the first! time in more than 20 years the Democratic national convention will be a wide-open affair from scratch, with the responsibility for picking a nominee left solely in the hands of the delegates themselves, j In spite of this fact, President! Truman does not 1 intend to sit out j the rest of his term in inaction. He ! has promised he will take the stump, and so said in his fighting speech, one of the best he ever has made, in behalf of the Democratic j party. Likely he will not take ac-; tion until after the convention in Chicago, July 21, but he will go down the line for the nominee, whoever he is. And although this- may not take the form of a “whistle stop” campaign, he likely will hit! most of the big cities for set speech- j es in behalf of fKe’llominee. Although the President will not take part in the party nomination, he will in all likelihood have a hand 4»-s®Uuig up- thft-party-^plats. form upon which that candidate must run—and he must run also upon the record of the Truman Ad- [ ministration. • • * In the meantime two first-term senators up for re-election this fall called each other’s bluffs and agreed to take their feud to the courts. Senator William Benton of Connecticut, some months ago filed an ouster proceeding agaipst Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wis consin as unfit to be a senator in that he has deceived the senate on at least 10 specific instances. The senate privileges and elections com- imttee has been investigating the charges for months. Recently they have asked for a senate vote of con fidence after McCarthy charged they could not legally make the probe. McCarthy criticized Senator Ben ton for making the charges under a cloak of immunity, although Mc Carthy himself has been careful to make all his charges under the; same senatorial cloak. Benton of fered to waive this immunity if McCarthy wanted to sue. McCarthy sued for $2,000,000, saying Benton has slandered and libeled him. Ben ton said he would accept the suit if McCarthy would agree to a tnal of the issues before election. Mc Carthy agreed. Now there are some in the senae who declare Benton does not have the auhority to “wave immunity” since this is a constitutional pro vision. Concensus is that McCarthy will not go into court before elec tion.. » . • * - Another Big Business executive has given up and resigned his gov ernment appointment—Charles E. Wilson of General Electric, a s De-. fense Mobilizer. .^phn Steelman, presidential assistant, has been named temporary head of the office of defense mobilization in his place. Mr. Wilson, able business execu tive, has made many mistakes since he took over the job, the first in not naming any labor leaders to top spots in his organization. He tried- to remedy this when labor took a walk from the wage stabil ization board. Maltese Cross Group To Meet Here A meeting of the Maltese Cross sub-district will be held on Monday night, April 21, at 7:30 at Broad Street Methodist church here, it is announced by Miss Evelyn Clark, publicity chairman. 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