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Thursday, April 17, 1952
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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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.
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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.
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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..
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- 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. At this time
officers for next year will be elect
ed and all members of the district
are invited to attend.
Magistrate Johnson
For Re-election
R. Eugene Johnson, well known
citizen of the Belfast community,
announces his candidacy for re-
elctrorr in today’s paper as magis-
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the office the put six years.
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