Indiana

...Mayor Tucker is waging a vociferous campaign, making the most of his histrionic talents and emphasizing such original themes as his orphanage, "economy," and "time for a change...

...perhaps he will also lead Capehart...

...Even without the President...

...Handley acquired the Republican nomination over the politically dead body of Governor George Craig and has been steaming along since...

...He seems a rather topical pre-Eisenhower species of Republican, but that does not inhibit him from wrapping himself up in the Eisenhower flag (little mention of Dirk...

...One significant omen is the organization in the last few years of several Farmers Union locals in a bastion of the Farm Bureau...

...Senator Homer Capehart (about 2.000 acres on his farm) and Claude Wickard, ex-Secretary of Agriculture and ex-Rural Electrification Administrator (a real dirt farmer, no doubt...

...The outcome of these contests and some of the Congressional districts may well turn on the length of Eisenhower's coat-tails, which in 1952 carried along the Republican state ticket...

...The Democrats are expected to acquire the South Bend district with strong union support, and they also have a chance to retrieve the Indianapolis district...

...He lias campaigned for peace and prosperity, against Federal aid to education (thought control, you know), and with emphasis on local issues (like the tariff), where he sometimes makes more sense than his opponent...

...A manifesto of the Terre Haute ADA chapter denounced Tucker as "morally unfit" and urged Democrats to scratch their ballots...

...Stevenson and Kefauver, and there are two real horse races for the offices of Senator and Governor...

...Senator William Jenner, and ten of the eleven House districts...

...Capehart has been racing to catch up...

...Since Congress adjourned...

...They have been regaled by those self-styled "preachers of the Democratic gospel...

...Whether Tucker can win may depend on whether his "campaign oratory" can offset the Terre Haute tag, or perhaps on how many people over the state are aware that in Terre Haute "progressive" reflects only a charitable view of vice...

...Major interest is focused on the forensic battle between the two Hoos-ier farmers...

...No other changes appear likely...

...Everyone agrees that Wickard will lead the Democratic ticket...

...Hoos-iers are enjoying another hot campaign season...

...INDIANA Eisenhower leads, but Senate and Governor races are tighter By Howard D. Hamilton Indiana State Teachers College Terre Haute Most dopesters and the Republican command agree that Indiana is in the Eisenhower bag, and the President will make his select campaign addresses elsewhere...

...How dissatisfied are the farmers, now that they are getting soil-bank money...

...Wick-ard has been stumping steadlly since January, lamenting the miserable condition of the farmer...

...four of the Republican districts are impregnable (planned that way) and three others are relatively safe...

...Democratic hopes appear to hinge largely on the unknown quantity of farm discontent, the effectiveness of labor political action, the length of Ike's coattails, and the significance of the 1955 municipal elections, in which Democrats recaptured Indianapolis and took 70 of 105 mayoralties...

...Indiana voters probably will augment the House Democratic membership in the 85th Congress...

...He berates the spendthrift GOP for squandering the state's surplus (and providing needed facilities), and promises more schools, roads, etc...

...and boss Frank McHale of the Paul McNutt era...

...But Indiana was in Dewey's bag in 1948 also—until the votes were counted...

...Currently Republicans have all but the two metropolitan districts of Evansville and Lake County (the Chicago spillway...

...extolling his record and Ike's, and displaying "my bill" to solve the farm problem by appropriating millions for research in industrial uses of agricultural products...

...The Gubernatorial race is between two professional political hucksters: Harold Handley, furniture salesman and Lieutenant Governor, and Ralph Tucker, radio announcer and Mayor of Terre Haute...

...Each is campaigning furiously as the greatest friend of the farmer since Wendell Wilkie...

...Like Handley, he won the nomination by beating the big bosses at the state convention, including national Democratic Chairman Paul Butler, ex-Chairman Frank McKinney...

...with "no new taxes" (but with all Federal aid cheerfully accepted ). This "progressive Democrat" heads the most entrenched local party machine in Indiana, a small-city copy of the Chicago model...