National Reports
RICHARDS, FOUST & VOTAW, ALBERT N.
National Reports Political Maneuvers in the Windy City By Albert N. Votaw Chicago Political alarums and excursions accompanied the preparation for the big three-day meeting of the Democratic...
...The price for this will be high...
...But backers of other hopefuls, such as New York Governor Averell Harriman and Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver, grumbled that a party gathering might be made a Stevenson promotional affair, so Adlai threw his hat in the ring four days earlier...
...In Lacayo's case, he and his paper might be expelled from the association if the charges against him are sustained...
...The newspaper is still operating despite Robleto's absence, so it would not appear that Somoza's purpose was to stifle its criticism...
...Edward Barrett, now County Clerk, formerly Secretary of State (he was barely nosed out in the 1952 Republican sweep) and the man who Stevenson insisted not be slated for Governor in 1952...
...Action in the El Tiempo case would involve an official protest...
...To an observer at this distance there seems little doubt that Rojas Pinilla closed El Tiempo to silence its voice...
...Tradition requires that their Senatorial candidate come from downstate, inasmuch as Douglas is a Chicago resident...
...Governor William Stratton is completing a successful first term...
...On the other hand, there are quite a few of Daley's constituents who would like to try for the Governorship...
...Daley specializes in "blue ribbon" tickets for public office, and his slating of high-caliber men for county office has been successful in wresting some of these posts back from the GOP...
...Whether the newsmen and their publisher were involved in the plot is not clear...
...Significantly, Governor Robert Kennon sat next to Nixon and for most of the luncheon had his arm securely wrapped around the young Vice President's shoulder as he smiled and whispered in his ear...
...Mitchell is to address the liberal Independent Voters of Illinois "Best Legislator" awards dinner November 21, just two days after the National Committee meeting ends...
...The Democrats are less fortunate...
...Barring the sort of Democratic sweep that will make possible coat-tail riding on a substantial scale, Illinois Democrats may have real trouble finding strong men for their state ticket...
...Stahlman assailed Holland's public embrace of former Argentine dictator Juan D. Peron and Dr...
...No major scandals have arisen to trouble his administration, and he possesses one of the most formidable vote-getting records in state history...
...Milton Eisenhower, and Henry F. Holland, Under Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs...
...Canelas was jailed but later released, primarily through the intervention of the IAPA...
...Inter-American Press Parley Chides U. S. By Foust Richards New Orleans Government censorship in Latin American countries came in for a barrage of criticism at the Inter-American Press Association meeting which just ended here...
...He also charged that a revolt from the political "center" had failed in Bolivia because of this U.S...
...The actual decision will probably be made by Chicago's Mayor and party boss, Richard Daley...
...One involved the shutdown by Colombian President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Bogota's famed El Tiempo...
...There is talk that, in the interests of putting forth the strongest possible candidate against Dirksen, he may violate tradition and call for the nomination of a Chicagoan...
...Most of the convention's time was occupied with a discussion of two controversial cases...
...Douglas's unsuccessful opponent last year...
...In fact, he is highly regarded by many liberal students of Latin affairs for his fight to break the oligarchic rule exercised for centuries by the tin-mine owners in Bolivia...
...In the end, the IAPA voted to let its tribunal examine both cases and take action accordingly...
...National Reports Political Maneuvers in the Windy City By Albert N. Votaw Chicago Political alarums and excursions accompanied the preparation for the big three-day meeting of the Democratic National Committee here...
...The GOP is standing pat...
...The dictatorship of Victor Paz Estenssoro exists only by virtue of the yearly handout of 50 million U.S...
...The party's titular leader, Adlai Stevenson, was scheduled to address a $100-a-plate dinner November 19 at the windup of the affair...
...Otilio Ulate, former President of Costa Rica, likewise attacked Holland's and Dr...
...backing...
...and he has been assiduously wooing his party's more liberal wing by attending functions in Cook County and publicly praising President Eisenhower...
...He has a distressing way of being prophetic in political matters...
...His speech said little, but his appearance undoubtedly helped Hemisphere relations...
...The difficulty is that neither Stengel nor another downstate hopeful, State Senator James Gray of East St...
...His Cook County organization is overflowing with would-be candidates for the nomination for Governor and for Secretary of State, a post second in patronage powers only to the Governorship...
...It should be noted that Paz Estenssoro is not universally regarded as a dictator...
...Dirksen...
...Chief targets were the President's brother, Dr...
...dollars which Dr...
...Eisenhower persuaded his brother, the President, to send to Bolivia," Dubois said...
...A mob, allegedly inspired by Paz Estenssoro's agents, destroyed the property...
...He said their implied support of Peron had discouraged Latins in other countries who were working for democracy...
...Eisenhower's kind words for Peron following his Latin American tour in 1953...
...Louis, are too well known or have much strength among downstate county chairmen...
...and Stephen Mitchell, former Democratic National Chairman and a strong Stevenson rooter...
...At stake are state offices, now occupied by Republicans, and the scat of Senator Everett Dirksen...
...Lacayo insisted that the two were agitators who had participated in a plot on the life of President Anastasio Somoza, but the newsmen's former employer, Hernan Robleto, himself an exile, vigorously denied this...
...Eisenhower's "coddling of dictators...
...Eisenhower's "meddling" in Bolivia was further condemned by Jules Dubois, chairman of the IAPA Freedom of the Press Committee and a long-time Latin expert for the Chicago Tribune...
...There are other problems facing local Democrats which involve the formation of a full slate for next year's election...
...Therefore, despite the fact that, under Illinois law, convention delegates cannot be bound in the preferential primary, it would appear that Stevenson will be less plagued by dissent within his own state delegation than he was in 1952...
...The widely respected journal has long been a champion of the Liberal party, Rojas Pinilla's political opposition...
...It was generally assumed he would use the occasion to launch his formal drive for the 1956 Presidential nomination...
...In fact, some of Stengel's backers regard next year's Senate race as simply a convenient method of building up a statewide following for their man with an eye to the Governorship in 1960...
...Complicating matters are the persistent rumors that Jacob Arvey, Illinois Democratic National Committeeman who was general chairman of the dinner, has Harriman tendencies...
...The other concerned a defense by Leonardo Lacayo Ocampo's Managua Novedades, of the expulsion from Nicaragua of two newspapermen...
...who can shake his silvery locks and orate with the best of them, is a strong campaigner in this heartland of Old Guard Republicanism...
...Finally, Vice President Richard M. Nixon flew down to New Orleans to address the meeting...
...Among them are Herbert Paschen, now County Treasurer, formerly Lieutenant Governor under Stevenson, and the unsuccessful Gubernatorial candidate in 1952...
...This is scarcely a recommendation to party leaders looking for a winner next year...
...policy in that area...
...No matter who heads the national ticket, on the state level the GOP will offer a solid slate...
...certainly the Governorship and possibly also the post of Secretary of State will have to be offered a downstater...
...The most unexpected critic of the two was the IAPA's new president, James G. Stahlman, publisher of the Nashville Banner and a warm admirer of the President...
...with the possible creation, if the Democrats win, of a rival power center to the Daley-Arvey leadership within the state organization...
...This Arvey has vigorously denied...
...The IAPA's objection to him is based on the burning of a newspaper owned by Demetrio Canelas of Cochabamba...
...If the nomination is to go to a downstater, labor preference may well go to State Representative Richard Stengel of Rock Island, a young (41) and able legislator with a commendable record...
...And Senator Paul Douglas, a 1952 Kefauver booster, has placed himself in Stevenson's corner...
...But the editors and publishers, both Latin and norteamericano, also heavily criticized present U.S...
...The timing would be right for Mitchell to enter the race for Governor...
...In addition, since his retirement from the Senate he has been functioning as a lobbyist in Washington, and Democrats remember well how effectively they raised the cry of "lobbyist" against Joseph Meek...
...However, sentiment in the Cook County organization is reportedly against him, and the slating of a Chicagoan for Senator might eventually also make sense as an anti-Mitchell maneuver...
...Wily old Kennon may figure that Nixon is the heir apparent to the Eisenhower mantle...
...It likewise seems clear that Novedades, owned by President Somoza, would be obliged to support whatever he did...
...To date, the strongest contender appears to be Scott Lucas, the former Senate Majority Leader who was trounced by Dirksen in 1950 by nearly 300,000 votes...
...But Lucas is considered unacceptable to labor...
Vol. 38 • November 1955 • No. 46
