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VOL. LXII, No. 180 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1952
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98- Years of Battle
Mark GOP History
By HARRY LUNN
Ninety-eight years ago today a group of influential Michigan
citizens gathered in a grove of oaks at Jackson to form a new "radi-
cal" political party.
With great fanfare and enthusiasm they named themselves the
Republican Party and adopted resolutions pronouncing slavery a
moral, social and political evil and renouncing all legislation that
promoted its extension or continuance.
* * * *,
A COALITION of elements from the old Whig, Democratic, Free
Boil and Know-Nothing parties, the Republicans quickly grew in
power. In 1856 they entered the explorer James C. Fremont as a
presidential candidate. Unfortunately for the Republicans Fremont
was not a particularly auspicious or outstanding candidate and he lost.
However, he polled enough votes to make the young party a
definite threat to the incumbent Democrats who were having
trouble determining a consistent stand on the slavery issue.
Under Abraham Lincoln the Republicans were triumphantly
carried into office in 1860 to begin a 24 year term of presidential
power, broken only by the close election of Democrat Grover Cleveland
in 1884.
Ironically, in its early days the Party's strongest newspaper back-
ing came from the Utopian Socialist Horace Greely and his "Tribune."
Karl Marx was first known to "Tribune" readers as the paper's chief
European correspondent. However, the party was primarily composed
of the strong American middle-class of farmers and tradespeople.
* * * *
AFTER LINCOLN'S DEATH the party was taken over by a group
of opinionated, vindictive congressmen who hated the South and
intended to make it pay for the Civil War. When President Andrew
Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, tried to carry through Lincoln's
rather humanitarian reconstruction program, they attempted to im-
peach him, but failed in their effort by one vote.
Eventually Johnson's term ran out and in 1868 the GOP won
easily with the Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant, who was returned
again in 1872. Grant's two terms, marked by railroad finance
frauds and stock-market scandals, came to be known as a low
ebb in American political morality.
Grant's hopes for a third term were frustrated by the nomination
of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876. Hayes' election was one of the most
bitter ever waged, and he won it by a one vote margin only after the
House of Representatives had granted him 20 contested electoral
college votes.
A period of extremely close political balance came in the eighties
and nineties, and a series of political swings sent Democrat Grover
Cleveland into the White House in 1884, Republican Benjamin Harri-
son in 1888, Cleveland back again in 1892 and Republican McKinley
in 1896.
* * * *
FROM THE 1896 ELECTION to 1912, the GOP once again held
sway over the country although its inherent conservatism was tem-
pered by Teddy Roosevelt's liberalism. Roosevelt took over after
McKinley's assasination in 1901 and was elected on his own in 1904.
In 1908, TR retired to hunt big game and left William Howard
Taft in the White House. Teddy was not pleased by Taft's drift
to extreme conservatism and returned in 1912 to try and seize
the nomination. However, Taft had gained control over the Na-
tional Committee in a manner comparable to his son's in the
current campaign and he railroaded his nomination by seating
over 200 of his own contested delegatese.
TR ragingly formed the "Bull-Moose" Party and got more popu-
lar votes than Taft, but their feud split the party and Woodrow
Wilson won on the Democratic ticket. Wilson won again in 1916.
With the cry of "Back to Normalcy" the Republicans caught the
imagination of a war-weary nation in 1920 and elected Warren G.
Harding. The subsequent 12 years of "normalcy" saw a national
scandal in the Harding regime, election of the puritanical Coolidge in
1924 and the unimaginative Hoover in 1928 and a huge financial fire-
works in 1929 which started the Great Depression.
Today the GOP, out of office for 20 years, is getting hungry
for the glory and patronage which goes with the presidential job.
Some observers suggest that a loss in the fall election may mean
the end of the party as a powerful force in American politics. The
battle now is whether the "old-guard" or the younger faction will
lead the group to glorious victory or ignominious defeat. This week
will tell the tale, and perhaps foretell the demise of the Grand Old
Party.
Registration
Tomorrow is the last day vot-
ers may register for the Aug-
ust 5 state primary, according
to City Clerk Fred J. Looker.
Voters can sign up from 8
a.m. to 8 p.m. tomorrow inthe
City Clerk's office in the City
Hall.
Besides state candidates, the
August 5 ballot will include two
city charter amendments. Cir-
cuit Judge James R. Breakey
will decide tomorrow whether
the controversial amusement
tax proposal will be on the bal-
lot for the second time.
Ann Arbor attorneys are at-
tempting to dismiss the But-
terfield Theaters, Inc., request
for an injunction to prevent a
vote on the tax proposal, which
was defeated April 7.
Row Stops
Adj ourn-ment'
Of Congress
WASHINGTON- (P) - A hot
Senate row over a mite House-
opposed curb on spending for
atomic weapons expansion held up
adjournment of Congress last
night.
The Senate rejected the House-
passed restriction and sent a 10
billion dollar supplemental ap-
propriation bill back to confer-
ence for a third time.
Congress also took action on
the following bills:
1. They completed action on
a bill hiking social security in-
surance and public assistance
payments by about 540 million
dollars a year.
2. They authorized more than
two billion dollars' worth of mili-
tary construction throughout the
world next year after slicing 629
million from Presidential requests.
3. They completed action on
a compromise bill guaranteeing
that prices of six basic farm
crops will be supported by the
government at 90 per cent of
parity during 1953 and 1954.
4. They wrapped up a 10 bil-
lion dollar catch-all bill, provid-
ing funds for foreign aid, expan-
sion of the atomic energy weapons
program,
5. They passed a 667 million
dollar civil functions measure,
to pay for scores of river, harbor
and flood control projects.
Secret Truce Talk
Held, Adjourned
MUNSAN, Sunday, July 6 --(P)
-Allied and Communist truce
negotiators held a 33-minute sec-
ret session in Panmunjom today,
then adjourned until tomorrow.
Today's meeting was the third
since the Allies agreed to off-the-
record talks in hopes some agree-
ment could be reached with the
Reds on the question of prisoner
exchange.
2000 Attend
Prog ess ive
Convention
Dubois Attacks
U.S. 'War Drive
Editor's Note: David R. Luce, Grad.,
is a local delegate to the convention
of the Progressive Party.
By DAVID R. LUCE
Special To The Daily
CHICAGO-Two thousand Pro-
gressive party delegates in a heat-
struck Chicago auditorium yester-
day made peace the central plank
in the Progressives' platform.
Michigan sent 125 delegates to
the convention, including eight
delegates, plus four observers,
from the Ann Arbor area and the
University. The delegates arrived
Friday to hear Dr. W. E. Dubois,
historian and writer, deliver a key-
note address which attacked the
current "war drive" as the pro-
duct of deliberate misinformation
and colonial imperialism, and put
forward a program of expanded
social security.
YESTERDAY'S session, chaired
by former Congressman Vito Mar-
cantonio of New York, took up
the task of drafting a platform.
This was the chief business of the
convention as local Progressive
Party caucuses and the National
Committee had already agreed on
running Vincent Hallinan, West
Coast lawyer, and Charlotta Bass,
editor of a California newspaper,
as candidates for President and
Vice-President respectively. ,,. .
(Candidates have been named
prior to the convention in order
to meet the requirements for
getting the Progressive Party on
the ballot in certain states.)
The Progressives' platform made
peace the central issue and de-
clared that unqualified support
for the Negro people's demand for
full equality now, and the de-
fense of the civil, liberties of all
Americans, were essential parts of
this fight for peace.
* * *
A VETERAN just returned from
Korea asserted that "the men who
are doing the fighting want no
part of this war." The platform
demanded an end to the war with
"no ifs, ands, or buts." Specific
resolutions supported the cause of
the steelworkers and organized
labor, and detailed a program for
ensuring security and full employ-
ment.
Later in the afternoon the
convention officially nominated
Hallinan and Bass as the Pro-
gressive Party's candidates.
Upon Vincent Hallinan's nom-
ination the convention hall be-
came a flood of cheering banner-
waving delegates; only the police-
men in the auditorium stood aloof
from the general enthusiasm.
Mrs. Hallinan delivered the ac-
ceptance speech for her husband.
Hallinan is currently in jail on
contempt-of-court charges result-
ing from his defense of Harry
Bridges in the latter's recent trial.
Both Determined
To Get GOP Nod
Senator's Total Reaches 550;
General Claims 427 Delegates
By The Associated Press
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen. Robert A. Taft stormed
into Chicago yesterday for their toe-to-toe struggle for the GOP
Presidential nomination.
The General ripped off a promise that "I will never give up" in
the battle for the nomination in the Republican National Convention
that opens tomorrow.
The Ohio Senator pledged that he will go "all-out" himself for
the big prize.
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BUT RANK AND FILE delegates who swarmed into town with
the main combatants were wondering openly whether the bitterness
-geneated in the Taft-Eisenhower
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ON TO CHICAGO: Local GOP Convention delegate Joseph C.
Hooper and Mrs. Hooper board a train for Chicago and the Con-
gress Hotel, where Michigan delegates will be accommodated dur-
ing the whirlwind convention week.
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Hooper Sees Michigai
Support for Eisenhower
By VIRGINIA VOSS
Michigan's 46-man Republican delegation has shown a definite
leaning towards Eisenhower during the past two weeks, according to
Joseph C. Hooper, Ann Arbor's sole delegate to the GOP Convention.
Hooper based his statement on recent reports that several of the
32 uninstructed delegates intend to vote for Eisenhower because popu-
lar support seems to lie with him.
Prior to recent developments, Hooper said all indications were that
the Michigan delegation was "evenly divided."
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A LOCAL ATTORNEY on his first trip to a National Convention,
Hooper is one of the few com-
Ana Pauker
Discharged
ByKremlin
VIENNA, Austria-(R)--Rom-
anian Foreign Minister Ana Pau-
ker, the international darling of
Communism and one of Stalin's
former friends, has been shoved
from her office in a tightening
Soviet stranglehold over the Black
Sea nation.
Her ouster was formally an-
nounced by Communist news
agencies yesterday. Western dip-
lomatic reports from Bucharest
said the fact that she is a Jewess
was a major factor in the inter-
nal cut-throat rivalry for power
that led to her purging.
A Russian-indoctrinated offi-
cial who formerly was Romanian
ambassador to Moscow, was given
her job to make sure Romania is
kept under the Kremlin's heel.
mitted Michigan delegates. His
vote is pledged to Eisenhower.
In the prediction line, Hooper
feels that the GOP nomination
will be made on the third bal-
lot. "The first ballot won't make
any definite disclosure," he said,
"and the second would show the
comparative strength of the fa-
vorite son movements and the
uninstructed vote."
Because both Taft and Eisen-
hower have more than 400 dele-
gates, Hooper predicted there will
be no possibility of a "dark-horse"
candidate.
"THE REPUBLICAN party is
fortunate in having two capable
candidates," Hooper commented,
"If either one is nominated, the
party is sure to come back into
power."
Hooper indicated that Ann Ar-
bor interest in this week's conven-
tion was high, judging from cor-
respondence, phone calls and per-
sonal comments he has received.
He said he noticed at county and
state conventions that women's
groups and younger voters were
taking an increasing interest in
choosing delegates.
U' Faculty
Favors Ike
Over Ta ft
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first
of two articles on a Daily, poll on
which faculty members were asked
to indicate their Presidential nomi-
nation choices. The following article
shows Republican Presidential nom-
ination preferences. The results of the
Democratic nomination survey will be
published July 20, prior to the Demo-
cratic Convention.)
University faculty members give
Eisenhower a five to one edge over
Taft for the Republican nomina-
tion, according to a Daily poll
completed yesterday.
Of 179 summer session faculty
members who fille out question-
naires, more than 100 indicated
Eisenhower was their choice for
the GOP nomination. The Senator
from Ohio, despite his substantial,
delegate margin over Eisenhower,
got 23 votes.
Only one of the other GOP no-
mination possibilities - Gov. Earl
Warren of California - got a size-
able showing, indicating that the
faculty sees slim chance for a
"dark horse" nominee.
* * * .
ALTHOUGH ONLY a third of
the faculty responded, The Daily
survey polled a representative sec-
tion of the campus teaching staff.
Schools and colleges covered
were: the literary college, the
engineering school, ths College
of Architecture and Design, the
public health school, the School
of Music, the medical school, the
School of Education, and ROTC.
Answers to a party preference
question indicated that faculty
members on campus are over-
whelmingly 'Republican. About 52
per cent showed GOP membership,
while Democrats and indepen-
dents picked up just under 20 per
cent each. Approximately 7 per
cent were undecided. ,
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victory in November.
Here and there, however, there
was talk of efforts to restore
some sort of harmony within
the warring GOP. Arthur Sum-
merfield, National Committee-
man from Michigan, said in
fact, that he and Gov. John S.
Fine of Pennsylvania have been
working in that direction.
And Gov. Earl Warren of Cali-
fornia, an outside contender for
the Presidential nomination, rode
in from the coast declaring him-
self more interested in Republican
harmony than in anything else.
Another hopeful, former Gover-
nor Harold E. Stassen of Minne-
sota, wasn't so sure of his chances
either. But he told a reporter he
thinks both Eisenhower and taft
may "fall short" of the nomina-
tion on early ballots, leaving the
way open for their supporters to
flock to him.
ON CONVENTION eve, the dele-
gate scoreboard stood as follows
Taft 530.
Eisenhower 425.
Others 131.
Uncommitted 120.
Included in the Taft total are
the contested delegates awarded
to Taft by the Republican Nation-
al Committee in four days of hard-
fought hearings run off this week.
Taft won most of the disputes.
* * *
IN OTHER Chicago develop-
ments yesterday, the following
events stood out:
1. The Republican National
Committee proposed new party
rules designed to keep everyone
except "legal and qualified" party
members out of state and district
conventions in future Presidential
years.
The recommendation followed
closely the arguments by back-
ers of Sen. Robert A. Taft in
the bitter dispute this year.over
the Texas delegation.
2. A proposed national defense
platform plank stressing greatly
increased air power today threat
ened efforts of the Taft and Eisen-
hower forces to reach agreement
on a "harmony" stand on foreign
relations.
3. Republicans from Dixieland
are getting set for a possible fight
on their party's convention, floor
over a proposed Civil Rights plank
promising federal efforts to end
racial discrimination.
4. Michigan's 46 delegates to the
convention were summoned yes-
terday to a caucus this morning
which will lead to the first test of
strength between Eisenhower and
Taft supporters in the state
First Gothic Film
To Be Presented
Opening its second consecutive
summer season, the Gothic Film
Society will present a German
sound film "Kameradschaft" at
8 p.m. tomorrow in Rackham Am-
phitheatre,
Memberships to the six-film
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Late Scores
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 5, St. Louis 0
Cleveland 3, Chicago 2
Washington 4, Boston 3
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 5, Boston 3
St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 0.
'U' Student Killed
In Auto Accident
William P. Snowball, '54PbH.,
was killed yesterday morning
when his car rammed a tree on
US-23, a quarter-mile west of Fen-
ton.
State Police said that Snowball,
who lives in Flint, had been driv-
ing alone in his car about 5:20
CHICAGO THREE-RING SPECTACLE BEGIN?
Pre-Convention Excitement Shakes Windy City
* * * *
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an account of the Republican Convention as
former Gargoyle editor, Peg Nimz, '53, sees it. Miss Nimz is a present mem-
ber of the Board in Control of Student Publications.)
By PEG NIMZ
Special To The Daily
Walked into Conrad Hilton Hotel about 1:30 p.m. on the fifth.
Pushed past a maze of hot sweaty specimen of Republican human-
ity and into the middle of an Eisenhower brass band which was run-
ning around playing "Hail to the Victors." Impressed.
*; * *; *
THE LOBBY WAS a large mass of Taft supporters listening to or-
gan music. Conservative. Fourteen elevators going up and down all the
time. Everything very orderly. Like a high school fire drill.
Uncovered a young Taft supporter sporting a Taft visor, a gi-
gantic Taft button and various and assorted paraphernalia adver-
tising the great man. Promptly talked him into handing said at-
tachments over to me and hotfooted it up to Eisenhower head-
By MIKE WOLFF
Special To The Daily
CHICAGOr - Pre-Republican convention excitement reached a
fever pitch yesterday afternoon as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and
his party arrived by special train to the cheers of nearly 5,000 enthus-
iastic supporters at Chicago's Northwestern Station.
With Sen. Taft and California's Gov. Earl Warren scheduled to
arrive last night, the big convention city hotels were jam-packed with
delegates. Sight-seers and throngs of banner-waving backers of the
chief contenders and possible dark horses.
NATIONAL Republican convention headquarters at the Conrad-
Hilton hotel was the scene of colorful parades and songfests by
cheering Taft, Ike and Stassen- enthusiasts.
Throughout the day the demonstrators surged through the
lobby waving pictures of Stassen, "Win with Warren" umbrellas
and color photographs of Gen. Eisenhower.
Supnorters of the various candidates circulated through the
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