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Di Salle Faced With Problems In Ohio Race
(This is the sixth in a series of articles on gubernatorial and congressional races in the 1962 campaign.)
Roles are reversed in the Ohio political campaign this year as Democratic candidate, Gov. Michael Di Salle plays the part of challenger rather than defender in his race with Republican James Allen Rhodes.
By Janice Pauls
Di Salle, who was elected governor by a 454,000-vote margin in 1958, has found it necessary to hit the road in the generally Republican Ohio in an effort to obtain votes during the fall election. He has stumped every one of the state's 88 counties and has visited some 130 unfamiliar towns. Unlike the customary incumbent, standing firmly on his record while the challenger moves to activate interest, Di Salle is eager to confront Rhodes in any sort of head-on debate.
RHODES, ON the other hand, campaigns on the road only a few times a week, holds no press conferences, and refuses to meet Di Salle in a debate. Silence has been his answer thus far to Di Salle's question, "Will you support public-school education at existing state levels, lower levels, or higher levels?"
The self-confidence of Rhodes stems from the fact that ever since De Salle's smashing victory in 1958 he has been slowly falling behind in his own political problems.
jems. During his first two years in office he persuaded a Democratic legislature to raise state taxes by some $310 million. This money was to support his determination to upgrade Ohio's highway, education and mental health programs.
ALTHOUGH DI SALLE still argues today that more and better highways are being built in Ohio and that irrespective of the sales tax wages have increased, the people were hit hard enough to elect Republican majorities in the Ohio house and senate in 1960.
Ohio house has on On the Republican side, Rhodes has not committed himself on taxes, but has called for a new industrial development authority financed by $100 million in revenue bonds, villages established to remove people over 65 from state institutions, and a $150 million expansion of the state universities.
Rhodes proved himself to be a sound administrator during his nine years in office as mayor of Columbus. In 1953, he advanced up to state auditor where he served three terms.
CONTRARY TO the popular conception of political mud-slinging, the two contenders have refrained from verbally tearing each other apart. The closest approach to an attack was Rhodes' observance that "the attitude of the elected official must be reasonable."
Rhodes, who has become known as a political independent, may attract some Democrats in the election, but his chances for a clean sweep over Di Salle are far from what they were a month ago. As of two weeks ago the consensus was that Rhodes is still leading but now Di Salle is likewise gaining ground.
Of lesser degree in Ohio but of higher national significance, young Robert Taft is making his first entrance into political bigtime. Now a state legislator, Taft is running on the Republican ticket for Congressman-at-large. His opponent, Democratic candidate, Richard Kennedy, is a political novice who is wasting no time in declaring his anti-civil rights opinions.
IN THIS AREA of the race, Taft is flashing his famous family smile around political circles while at the same time wondering if his opponent's name, although not a part of the Kennedy tradition, will pull in enough public sentiment to swing the election.
IVANHOE, by Sir Walter Scott (Signet Classics, 60 cents)—a handsome edition of the book that has enthralled young readers (6 to 60, as the movie ads say) for generations. Dash and derring-do, villainy, black knights, racial prejudice, tournaments, Robin Hood, King Richard—the whole landscape comes alive under Scott, though the characters seldom are more than sticks.
One of the most readable of our popular historians offers us here a history of reform movements in America since the Civil War that reads as swiftly and entertainingly as a novel. One is forced to suspect, on occasion, that Goldman is catering a bit too much to popular tastes.
There are a good many heroes in this history—Tilden, Bryan and the people of the farmer's revolts, the ministers who preached the Social Gospel, Henry George, Steffens and the muckrakers, Herbert Croly of "The Promise of American Life" and the New Republic, the dashing Teddy and LaFollette, Lippman, Wilson, FDR and his associates. Truman and Henry Wallace.
But it is a scholarly work. Goldman's concern is with liberalism and the liberal tradition and what has happened to it. By taking the strict 19th century definition of "liberal" one must concede that there are few liberals around today. But out of liberalism came populism and reformism and progressivism, and these seem more valid to us today than the liberal shibboleths of laissez-faire.
RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY, by Eric F. Goldman (Vintage,
$1.65).
The story ends before the American reaction of the early fifties. One questions whether a rendezvous with destiny was achieved, in view of what transpired in the days of McCarthy.—CMP
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TIME OF HOPE, by C. P. Snow (Harper Torchbooks, $1.95). THE AFFAIR, by C. P. Snow (Scribner Library, $1.65).
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Tuesday. Oct. 30, 1962
Many writers, especially when they deal with conflict among individuals, scream at the tops of their voices. It is difficult to imagine restraint by other writers who might deal with the themes of "Time of Hope" and "The Affair."
Yet it is restraint which best keynotes these fine novels, the first a comparatively little known volume in the "Strangers and Brothers" series, the second perhaps the best known of the group. "Time of Hope" gives us the young Lewis Eliot, the boy, growing up with a ne'er-do-well father and an ambitious mother; the youth, involved in controversy, trying to make a name for himself; the young lawyer, miserably wed to Sheilah, and determined to make the marriage succeed.
IT IS A BLOW TO THOSE OF US attuned to happy endings to see what Snow does in "Time of Hope." This is the realism of the man. Here is a probing and always interesting story of youth, love and marriage.
"The Affair" is the stuff of which popular drama is made. Here we have the dons of Cambridge, involved in the case of a young scientist who has been discharged—falsely, he contends—for falsification of a photograph in his thesis.
He is no knight in white armor, no victim of McCarthyism. The man himself is as unlikable as any character in contemporary fiction, but his disagreeable qualities do not keep several persons from enlisting themselves on his side, simply because they believe his incredible story, which involves the good name of a deceased and honored colleague.
This is a gripping story, told in Snow's best matter-of-fact manner. It is highly recommended.—CMP.
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GOP Fight in N.H.
(This is the seventh in a series of articles on the gubernatorial and congressional races in the 1962 election.)
In New Hampshire, a Republican governor who has served two terms in a traditionally Republican state has lashed out against state Republicans and endorsed the Democratic candidate for governor.
The present governor, Wesley Powell, charged in mid-October that New Hampshire Republicans were too conservative. He denounced the "Old Guard" policy. Gov. Powell then endorsed John W. King, the Democratic candidate for governor.
GOV. POWELL, who lost in the September primary to John Pillsbury for the Republican nomination for governor, frequently has feuded with state Republicans.
Gov. Powell said his loss came in the primary because he appointed U.S. Sen. Maurice J. Murphy to fill the unexpired term of the late U.S. Sen. Styles Bridges. State Republicans felt that Gov. Powell should have appointed Mrs. Bridges.
William Loeb, publisher of the quite conservative Manchester Union-Leader, wanted Mrs. Bridges appointed. Loeb violently attacked Gov. Powell for his choice.
LOEB ALSO attacked Gov. Powell again. This attack came in a front page editorial after Gov. Powell endorsed King. In this editorial, Loeb compared Gov. Powell to a kid who can't be the pitcher on a baseball team and then goes home with the ball and mitt.
Shortly after this recent LoebGov. Powell clash, former President Eisenhower was campaigning in New Hampshire at a political rally. Gov. Powell did not attend.
GOV. POWELL has sent several letters to state residents endorsing King as the candidate who has a clear conscience.
It is not certain just how influential Gov. Powell can be in persuading voters to elect King. The state has elected Republican governors for the last 35 years.
There is also Republican feuding in a U.S. Senate race. Mrs. Styles Bridges lost in the primary to Republican Perkins Bass. Now she takes jabs at him whenever possible. However, she has given no indication that she will endorse the Democratic candidate.
In other races, U.S. Sen. Norris Cotton is expected to win easily. The two Republican house of Representatives candidates are also expected to win.
New Hampshire Democrats are hopeful they can profit from a Republican party split and break tradition in a Republic state.
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