Idaho Senate Race Shows Contrasts (Editor's Note—This is the second in a series of articles on Key Senate races by members of the editorial class). The Idaho Senate race, although tied closely to that farming farm prices and rising unemployment in that mining and agricultural state, promises to hinge on the contrast between liberal Democratic and conservative Republican foreign policies. The challenger, former Democratic senator Glen H. Taylor, is pushing the fight to the incumbent Republican, Henry C. Dworshak, in those terms. Sen. Dworshak is a 75 per cent administration backer. Mr. Taylor, who ran for vice president on the Progressive party ticket in 1948, is now a liberal Democrat. He was also a liberal Democrat when he served in the Senate from 1942 to 1948. The state is described by various national magazines as "usually Republican." This is no guarantee that it will be this year. And it wasn't when Mr. Taylor ran in 1942. But Sen. Dworshak will be campaigning with the odds on his side. The other state senator is a Republican, and of the two state representatives, one is a Republican—the other a Democrat. A large part of the Nov. 2 question mark will hinge on the two men's personalities. They are contrasts here, too. Although both men took leave of formal education early in life, their lives hold little similarity from that time on. Sen. Dworshak is 59. He quit school at 15 to work in a printing shop and later entered the offices of the Burley (Idaho) Bulletin. He was editor and publisher of that paper from 1924 to 1944, and in that influential position gained friends throughout the state. He is a 33rd degree Mason and was, until his election to the Senate in 1950, extremely active in the American Legion, Rotary International, and other groups. He seems to have a large amount of integrity, as shown by an incident occurring in the 83rd Congress. When he was asked to name the man for a judgesity created in a bill by the other Idaho senator, Herman Welker, Sen. Dworshak said the state did not need another judge and he would not sponsor anyone for the job. Sen Welker sponsored a man for the job, though, causing Time magazine to label the incident, "Forcing Down a Plum." Sen. Dworshak was one of the silent members of the Senate Investigations subcommittee when that unit investigated the row between Sen. McCarthy and the Army last spring. He was on the committee as the personally selected replacement of Sen. McCarthy. Newsweek magazine recently stated that the Wisconsin senator can count on Dworshak support in the McCarthy censure move. He is backed solidly by Idaho Republicans, and has served four terms in the House of Representatives. Sen. Dworshak's last senatorial term marked him as an administration Republican. In 1953, he voted with the majority of his party 73 per cent of the time, but also during this time he "yea'd" 77 per cent of all bi-partisan issues before the Senate. In the last session of Congress, he backed Ike 74 per cent of the time, but the rest of the time he voted anti-administration. He voted on every measure to come before the Senate a 100 per cent voting record. Glen Hearst Taylor, Sen. Dworshak's Democratic opponent, is better known nationally than the incumbent. He has been described as "the singing cowboy," "one of the greatest speakers of our time," "a Taylor ham," and "Idaho's hot potato." Mr. Taylor quit school in the eighth grade to work as a sheepherder. Since that time he has been a movie manager, a sheetmetal worker's apprentice, a senator, a vice presidential candidate, a carpenter, an actor in his brother's traveling stock company, and a western singer. During the depression, Current Biography says, Mr. Taylor started to read about economics, and Stuart Chase's "A New Deal" of 1932 became the foundation of his thinking on economic matters. He sought election in Idaho in 1927, 1938, and 1940, all three times being defeated by the state's Democratic machine in the primary. But in 1944, he returned without his horse and cowboy regalia and with only $75 for a campaign fund, and beat the machine for the Democratic nomination. He had to repeat the same feat this year for the nomination, and his support in the coming contest will have to come from the same groups which supported him in 1944—the miners and lumber workers of northern Idaho and the labor vote in industrial Pocatello. In that campaign, he concentrated on two main issues—the need for a strong international organization to preserve peace, and a Columbia Valley authority modeled after the Tennessee project. In his first year in the Senate, Mr. Taylor became known as one of the hardest working "freshmen" senators. He was reportedly never at a loss for words on any subject, no matter how controversial. He won the praise of labor officials when he said jobs for all are necessary to preserve private enterprise. Other major crusades of the "singing cowboy" were to strengthen the United Nations, to urge the country to break relations with Franco Spain, to keep U.S. grants-in-aid to other countries from becoming "oil grabs" and economic pressure moves, and to curb monopoly in business. He supported other liberal and progressive measures and paid close personal attention to Idaho voters during his one term in the Senate. In 1948, Mr. Taylor left the Democratic party to become the running mate of Henry Wallace on the Progressive party ticket. In this year's Idaho primaries, the national Democratic party was reluctant to see Mr. Taylor win, but the party has reversed its stand. National Democratic leaders now apparently look upon Mr. Taylor as the man who can pull an upset in the predominantly Republican state. Page 2 University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 12, 1954 Sen. Dworkshak will be waging a vigorous campaign to "clarify the issues" in Idaho. -Ron Grandon Oklahoma made 28 first downs against Kansas State in 1942 as the Sooners defeated the Wildcats 76-0. University or Kansas Student Newspaper News Room, KU 251 Ad Room, KU 376 Member of the Kansas Press association, National Editorial association, Inland Daily Press association, University Association, Represented by the National Advertising service, 420 Madison ave., N.Y. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 year (add $1 a semester if in Lawrence). Published at Lawrence, Kan., every宴会 day. Published at Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays and examination periods. Entered as second class matter, Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence, Kan., post office under act of Daily Hansan EDITORIAL STAFF Editorial Editor Gene Shank Editorial Editor NEWS STAFF Business Manager Dave Riley advertising Mgr. Audrey McIntosh Martina Chumbers Circulation Mgr. Dave Conley Classified Kee Winston Kerri Adigser BUSINESS STAFF NEWS STAFF Executive Editor ... Stan Hamilton Executive Editor ... Stan H. Hamilton Leah Lemon Elab Eubur Manar ng Editors ... Wohlgemuth Dana Leibengood Jot Taylor News Editor ... Amy De Yong Asst. News Editor ... Ron Grandon Sports Editor ... Jack Lindberg Asst. Sports Editor ... Tom Lyons Society Editor ... Ness Weiss Society Editor ... La Verte Yates News Adviser ... Calder M. Pickett Four hundred sixty-two years ago, on a distant eastern coast of this hemisphere, a group of sailors led by the courage and persistence of their captain weighed anchor on the shore of a new land and stepped onto the beaches of America. Thoughts for Columbus Day A long and arduous voyage was completed. A scientific theory, scorned by all but a few men, was proved. A captain, whose daringly new ideas were the butt of the world's jokes, was now the toast of the hitherto jeering civilization. The new land was discovered, and the work was done. But in the pages of history the pens were only beginning to write. In scribbling "finis" to the epoch-making voyage, historians found an entire new chapter unfolding before them. Beyond the misty seas of the Atlantic, a country was to be built which in future years would be called upon to wear the cloak of leadership and weight the scales of the world's future. Politicians and John Q. Public alike in this country of ours are concerned with the significance of America's decisions. The eyes of older countries are turned toward the United States, often looking to us for a program or policy to lead them in the paths of peace. Our adversaries, too, realize that the major power with which they contend lies within this new country of ours. It is a difficult responsibility that has been placed in America's young hands. It is a heavy sceptre that we are asked to wield. Yet the events of four and a half centuries have molded the character of this nation and fitted it for this task as no other country in the modern world can be. Immigrants came to American shores weary and penniless, yet bringing the vigor of their determination, and they created here new opportunities and a fresh chance for their families. The golden fields of grain, the purple mountains and the spacious skies smiled on the pioneers, and grateful hearts commemorated these elements in a national song. When tyranny and intolerance threatened the European continent and our mother England, America opened eager arms to those men daring and courageous enough to find and found a new way of life. Our vast and unexplored territory gave generously of its resources that these colonists might have a sanctuary. But the early Americans and many generations since also took from these fields their bread and meat, took from the mountains the ores which built our powerful industries, and took from the sunny skies both faith and courage. Thus the resources of this nation and the untiring efforts of its first citizens built the life we have and secured the standard of living we enjoy in 1954. Is it any wonder then, that the Old World asks us now to give our strength? The Old World from which we drew our nation's leaders...from which we took the men and women who gave us America? But we have nearly forgotten, in 1954, the man who first looked upon this America of ours. In setting forth upon the difficult voyage which we must now captain, what better motto could we choose than the words of that first sailor whose dauntless courage broke the ocean barriers and discovered this land? 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