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By PETER EDSON and WADE JONES Times Special Writers : CHICAGO, July 26—The enviable position of Gov, Adlai Stevenson is that he emerges from the Chicago Democratic National Convention completely uncommitted and unbossed. He has made no political promises to anyone. No money has been collected on his behalf to wage any political campaign.. He § owes nothing to anybody. . This leaves him perfectly free ¥ in case he should be elected President in November—to clean house as Ne sees fit in Washing: © ton. He can drive out the tired old & party hacks who have been clut- § tering up the political landscape the past 20 years. He can start fresh. It is only on this basis that the Democratic party has any chance of winning the election in No- | vember, 4 Predicting the outcome of this § election is, of course, futile. But t ## not a shoo-in for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, as the

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during World War II and United:

years just after the war.

When Mr. Stevenson began campaigning for governor in 1948 he’d never campaigned for office

ting started.

“I just had to start out on my own,” he says, “learning by doing, sweating it out on every street corner all over-the state. Money was so short 1 got out my own press-réleases and drove the car. “At first I wasn't sure of my- ! self: so I worried all the time when the political veterans told ie, ‘Say this, don’t say that, straddle on the other.’ “Then I realized I was being all .sorts of dishonest characters I really wasn’t, so I n to say what was in my heart and mind. The voters seemed to like that.”

Voters Liked It

They sure did. In the election Mr. Stevenson polled a 572,000 majority, the biggest any Illinois

gp top U. 8. Navy troubleshooter| And that’s still below what it was

Natiohs smoother-outer in the!

before and had little help in get-|

in 1948, Mr. Stevenson is proud of the {financial accomplishments of his administration.

the way in which it was done. | “In the long run” h& says, Ld {believe you win" by doing what you think 1s right, and explaining Your reasons sensibly and straightforwardly to the voters. “You've got to assume that the people of the state are just as able as“you are to understand what's best for the state, and want what's best for the state just as much as you do. You can't be contemptuous or tricky or condescending or secretive with | the electorate.” ‘A Gold Nugget’ Mr. Stevenson was a “trouble shooter” on United Nations affairs before, during and after the 1945 United Nations conference at San Francisco. When ‘James Byrnes. became Secretary of State he used Mr. Stevenson in similar work in London and New York. Mr. Byrnes wrote Mr. Steven-

But he is equally happy about

By RICHARD KLEINER WASHINGTON, ‘July 26—John J. Sparkman has a skeleton in his closet.

He's the

jman who is now heading up the Republican ticket. It happend in 1948, when, for

sue threatened to upset Democratic equilibrium, Before the '48

out for Dwight Eisenhower for the Democratic Presidential gomination. - Afterwards, when Harry Tru-, man had been formally nominated, Sen. Sparkman joined the Dixieecrat movement and supported the States’ Rights candifacy of J. Strom Thurmond.

Democratic nominee : for vice president, but once upon an election he came out for the

the first time, the civil rights is-

convention, Sen. Sparkman came i

SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1952

Stevenson Free To Clean Out Party’s Old Wheelhorses

Sparkman Faithful to the New Deal, Fair Deal Except for Civil Rights

money on a cotton crop he raised

| during the summer after he grad-

qated from high school. That financed his freshman year at the University of Alabama, and he

| worked his way through the other

three years. He was a Phi Beta

Kappa student.

He graduated right into ‘World war I, and, after his discharge, tried to get into newspaper work. When he-couldn’t-find a bob; he went to law school instead. He practiced law in Huntsville, Ala.

. until he was elected to the House

of Representatives in 1936. Appropriately, his first speech in the House was in support of a law to aid tenant farmers, After five sucessive terms, he

| ran for the Senate, to fill out the 1 unexpired term of the late Sem? ' John H. Bankhead, of the Tal-

lulah Bankhead clan. He was re-

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Stevenson bandv to a victorious fi Led by Gov. nominating speet chief executive which set off th the delegates cal antly to open th ‘the fall election, Gov. Schricker the U. 8. senato

Except for the question of civil

governor ever got. He carried/son on Mar. 6, 1946, when the:

X Ranohiio——_ had hopéd. elected again in 1948. ® accepted relucta

(ov. Stevenson can take a great deal of credit for having ieliberately planned it that way. FIRST--Stevenson refused to accept President Truman's preconvention urgings that he be-

come a candidate.

The Governor's original mo- _&

tive in this refusal

the Truman administration record from rubbing off on Gov, Stevenson, And it leaves the Governor unbossed by Harry Truman.

Avoided Feugs

SECOND — Gov. Stevenson stayed out of all state primary and state combination convention contests, That left him freé¢ from any of the feuding. THIRD-—-Gov. Stevenson took “no part in any of the contests over the seating of Texas and Mississippi delegates. He took no part in the fight over rules and the adoption of the delegates’ loyalty pledge. Though a delegate to convention, he stayed away from the floor while these fights were on. This leaves him in a position to ask for and receive the support of not only Texas and Mississippi, but also Virginia, Louisiand and ' South Carolina—the three states that refused to give

assurance of loyalty to the ticket.|Sound indeed in a season when

This provides a good opportunity Presidential Pp 5 ig y apparent self-doubt whatsoever,

FOURTH—Gov. Stevenson has| Vere confidently prescribing for

for restoring party unity.

been able to steer clear of influence by union labor bosses. When Mr. Stevenson was just a little tot he yanked the table cloth one day, as little tots will, and considerable china got broken. . No ‘God-Given' Powers Whereupon, in what has come to be a characteristic Stevenson

gesture, young Adlai betoek himself: to the dog kennel, where

may have been his genuine unwillingness to run. Its effect, however, was

markable cure-alls.

the straw. From that day to this he has| been casting himself in so many figurative doghouses for his imaginary shortcomings that some people are wondering how he| would bear up under the many, woes of the White House.

Adlai . (rhyme it with “gladly”)|

ing last Spring, a Democratic nomination which was virtually | assured, he said in explaining his| Gecision; . . I just didn’t feel that I had any God-given powers to figure out the solution to co-existence with the Soviet Union and all our other problems. “I had no such self-confidence at all but yet I didn’t want to seem to shrink “from the job out of fear. I didn’t want. it —it seemed to me to mean honor, yes, but also misery.”

Writes Sweet Speech That kind of talk had an odd

fiopefuls with no

the world’s ills all sorts of re-

Then there was the time back in 1948 when Stevenson, plucked from political nowhere, had just received the Democratic nomination for governor of Illinois. Troubled by characteristic doubt as to his worthiness, Mr. Stevenson® was on his way to Springfield hy train to receive the nomination ' formally from the state committee. Mr, Stevenson asker Jake Ar-

h parents found him

New Victory Sparkle Injected Into Democrats By Nominee

By CHARLES LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer CHICAGO, July 26—A Democratic Party bright with new vigions of victory was heading home today militant and cocky about a sixth straight presidential triumph in November behind Adlai Stevenson. It's 90 years since the Repul» licans sent an... ; Illinois man, Abraham Lincoln,

of history haunted with those

has wondered, too. After declin-!

ADLAI E. STEVENSON—He owes nothing to anybody.

to prevent any black marks on{several hours later sleeping on|gie, whether he should give the

[committee a speech of acceptance. (Mr. Arvey expained that under the circumstances such a speech was in order,

So Mr. Stevenson started back ito the club car to write out a lit[tle talk, saying “I suppose I'll {make a mess of it, as usual, but still I'll try to work something out.” “He was back in the club car {about an hour,” Col. Arvey re|1ates, “and when he came back he thad a speech that would take about eight minutes to deliver. I read it over and then I’ said, ‘Don’t ever let anyone change a word of it, or of any speech you ever write. You've got a new approach to politics.” What he had written was short, pointed, and exactly what he felt. It carried conviction and it was spiced with wit and it went over great with the commit-

“8 It was to be the Keynote of one of the most remarkable political careers in Illinois history and it revealed a“great deal about Adlai Stevenson, the man. One thing it revealed is a good bit of the reason for his unusual personal modesty. The point seems to be that he sets extraordinarily high standards for himself. Then when he fails to meet his self-made goals, a very active conscience begins goading him.

i where corruption was almost the

{Bureau of Roads called the worst in any major state. He pushed

§ downstate Illinois for the Demo-

crats for the first time in history. And that was only the beginning.

When Mr, Stevenson became governor of Illinois, he started out to clean house in a state

rule instead of the exception. And he succeeded, despite the fact he was working half the time with a Republican legislature.

The Commerce Cdmmission, which ‘regulates public utilities, had become heavily bogged down in graft. He shook it up and put it on a nonpolitical basis. The school system was virtually starving for lack of state help. He gave it a big boost by doubling its aid from about $30,000,000 to $60,000,000 a year. When he came into office, Illinois’ once fine highway system had lapsed into what the Federal

axes and trucklicense fees, despite heavy opposition of the gas*and trucking lobbies, and set out on'a road-build-ing program that will put Illinois up with the best in a few years.

; Strikes Swiftly The state police, which had be-| come soft and ineffectual because

it ag fu) of political appointees, was en up and put on a merit

through gas

{system. The state hospitals had reached a notoriously low level. But changes were made and ‘they now rank among the top 25 per cent in the country. The recent horse-meat scandal rose up to muddy this record of solid accomplishment. But to Mr. Stevenson's credit, he dealt with the situation quickly and firmly, firing an old friend who was one of the top state officials involved as well as several others.

Top Troubleshooter i

That's the way he is now, that's the way he has been during his four-year m as governor of Il-|

vey, ithe Chicago Democratic big-

all respect but who has been called upon to minister to a hopeless case of political schizophrenia?” More important than winning the electign is governing the na-

tion, he said, and he assayed the in

task befone any president: “When the tumult and the shouting die, when the . . . lights are dimmnped, there is the stark reality ofj responsibility in an hour

linois, a e way he was as a

Myers and Mayor David Lawrence of Pittsburgh steered a 32vote chunk of the Pennsylvania delegation in Mr. Stevenson's direction. Two actions showed plainly the old pros were moving

The Stevenson vote seemed to start slowly as balloting began. Mr. Kefauver got their fastest with the mostest, 340 votes, as the Illinois Governor got 273 and Sen. Russell 268. On the second

out of Spring-] ballot, Sen. Kefauver climbed to field to the pres} gaunt, grim specters of strife (362, Mr. Stevenson to 324, Mr. idency. The dissension and materialism at Russell to 294. Democrats be- f \home, and ruthless, inscrutable Deary Work lieve they can do and hostile power abroad. But it was dreary, almost

it with today's Illinois governor. A national *onvention which flip - flopped for 5 a week between rancorous feud- Mr. Lucey ing rose today to a kind of evangelistic fervor as Mr, Stevenson won a dramatic third-ballot nomination. The dismal Democratic defeatism that followed the 1948 convention which nominated Harry Truman had no counterpart today. The 1200 delegates came here wanting to nominate: the - Nlinois Governor and they did it| after much agonizing and travail. | Now they think they're on the « march.

No Bolting

There was no bolt from this| eonvention as from Philadelphia four years ago. One after another in today’s early hours the candidates beaten! by the Illinois Governor marched to the platform to assure Democrats everywhere they lost withont bitterness; regard Gov. Stev-| enson as a great American, and| will try to help elect him this fall. In Mr. Stevenson's acceptance speech - to a wildly happy and] tumultuous convention, Democrats found they had a new cut

of man for a candidate. Like his}

welcome to the convention last

Monday, it had just about every-

tihng.

& (nation, it had the stamp of the f [inevitable from the start despite the Gowernor’s unwillingness to

|in the north.

As to. Gov. Stevenson's nomi-|

leave Springfield. For one reason or another, the rest of the candidates just didn't answer the specifications the Democrats needed in 1952. Sen. Estes Kefauver mowed] down his opponents in some spring primaries, but many of his victories were strictly token.

“The ablest man of the lot”|

was the tribute they paid to Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia. Yet his southern ties made him { politically difficult to put across

gruelling work, this balloting. It| took more than six hours for just two ballots and at last, recess was called at 6:30 p. m.

Estes Kefauver had been an| astonishingly lucky man 28 he made the right turn in the road| time after time in recent months.| But last night his luck ran out.| {He needed to crack at least one or two big states but he couldn’t| do it. Massachusetts was appealed {to but wouldn't budge. Mr. {Kefauver had been playing ball] with Mr. Harriman all during the convention, but when it came to the breakup of the Harriman votes, he got nothing.

Averell Harriman was called] “too rich and too little known.” | Vice President Barkley's age] was, against him. And so on. | Tén days ago, Gov. Stevenson's | closest friends came to Chicago] | bel®eving-he was all but out of it.| But when they saw the extent of {delegate sentiment for their man, [they went to work. At an Illinois caucus Sunday, they told him he; would be nominated and Illinois! | would vote for him regardless of| {hid wishes }- The same night, ex- Sen. Francis!

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Shortly after the recess, Gov. (Mennen Willlams and Sen. Blair Moody of Michigan went to see [Ben, Kefauver in the Stockyards Hotel near the Chicago Aphi[theater. They told him what was (Plain to almost everyone—the convention would start to break for Gov, Stevenson on the next ballot. { At the same time, Gov. Paul {Dever of Massachusetts cast off his. favorite son pretentions and got set to break for Mr. Stevenson. He turned _Mmissionary and

WANTED

money, but the new governor cut

These increased services cost

a lot of fiscal corners where he could and the result is that the annual budget of Illinois is now only a little over $600,000,000.

lafter resigned to return to Chicago, that “you have helped greatly to get the United Nations started as a going concern.” Mr. Stevenson expressed hope he could serve again “in the field of my first interest.” One day in 1947, Mr. Byrnes attended a luncheon at the Capi-| tol with Col. Arvey. Col. Arvey, according to accounts, was looking for a good man to run on the Democratic ticket for IHinois governor. He mentioned the problem to Tr Byrnes who thought there redlly was no problem. “Don’t you people in Illinois know you've got a gold nugget out there?” Mr. Bynes asked. “Who do you mean?” Col. vey asked. “I mean Adlai Stevenson,” Mr. Byrnes replied. The name of Alger Hiss and his association with Mr. Stevenson are sure to be used by Republican campaigners for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. That association was entirely governmental, not personal with opinions of those who knew both men at the time. Where, Hiss Comes In iss and Mr. Stevenson both rked together in the Agriculture Department's AAA in early New Deal days, They met again in the State Department ten years later, Mr. Stevenson was asked later to make a formal statement as to Hiss’ reputation. He it was good. Mr. Stevenson later explained, “I never heard even a syllable of suspicion about him. If I were asked to answer the same questions tomorrow, in all honesty I would have to give exactly the same answers; and also. I would have just as little cause to quarrel with the final verdict of the court which found Hiss guilty of perjury.” These remarks, friends say, are typical of Mr. Stevenson. As one former co-worker put it, “he shoots straight from the hip.” If Mr, Stevenson goes back tol Washington, he will be among

Ar-

urged New York delegates to] break the same way. To Averell] Harriman it was plain*he'd have fewer than 100 votes on the third ballot, ‘and he prepared to lay down his arms.

It was a 120-minute period when every Democratic leader

‘of it.

many old friends.

[cheeked face -—— someone once

rights—and allied issues, such as the filibuster problem—Sparkman has diligently and faithfully walked the New Deal, Fair Deal road in both the House and Senate. But, as a native Alabaman, he has broken with Pres. Truman over civil rights and makes no hones about it, ” » ” HE IS, however, not as vehement as most Southern legislators. He simply says he does not favor a federal law compelling fair employment practices, and lets it go at that. He makes no enemies over it. And that’s fairly typical of John Jackson Sparkman in action. He has many friends, few enemies. He's a big, genial, popua man, given to the gay social fe. He has a youngish, ruddy-

called him “the only cherub in the

only a short way when Sen. Paul [Douglas and Mr. Kefauveri ‘mounted the platform. Mr. Ke- | fauver wanted to be heard at| once, but Permanent Chairman Sam Rayburn was having none!

What Mr, Kefauver had sought |

was conferring with other Demo-|t0 do was to tell delegates he was

cratic leaders. was ready to go hell-bent for

This convention |retiring.

{ Against tradition, he said. |

But the. chance never ra

Gov. Stevenson and there was Adlai Stevenson won on that bal-

no stopping it.

lot—before Mr.

Kefauver could

_ Third ballot roll-call had gone speak.

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