Why the South Likes Lausche

When the Democratic Convention meets next August in Chicago, the single candidate with a touch of political greatness will be Frank J. Lausche, Ohio’s five-time governor. On the record, he would make the best President in many years; under his restless, skeptical, hesitant, but determined leadership, the United States might change the drift of world events. There is an off-chance that the Vice-Presidential nomination may be pressed on him; very little that he will get first place on the ticket. For the Washington bureaucracy, represented at Chicago by Joseph L. Rauh’s ADA and Walter Reuther’s labor cohorts, will prove immovable.

Lausche’s status as a dark-horse candidate is due chiefly to a few words of endorsement last October by Senator Russell of Georgia. For reasons unfathomable to those born north of the Mason-Dixon Line, Russell stirs intense emotion in Southern breasts. Southerners look at him, and see the ghostly form of Lee; they listen, and hear the far off voice s of Calhoun and Clay. Russell is taking no part in the pre-Convention maneuvers, and may not even go to Chicago as a delegate, but other Southerners volunteer to explain the South’s feelings.

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When the Democratic Convention meets next August in Chicago, the single candidate with a touch of political greatness will be Frank J. Lausche, Ohio’s five-time governor. On the record, he would make the best President in many years; under his restless, skeptical, hesitant, but determined leadership, the United States might change the drift of world events. There is an off-chance that the Vice-Presidential nomination may be pressed on him; very little that he will get first place on the ticket. For the Washington bureaucracy, represented at Chicago by Joseph L. Rauh’s ADA and Walter Reuther’s labor cohorts, will prove immovable.

Lausche’s status as a dark-horse candidate is due chiefly to a few words of endorsement last October by Senator Russell of Georgia. For reasons unfathomable to those born north of the Mason-Dixon Line, Russell stirs intense emotion in Southern breasts. Southerners look at him, and see the ghostly form of Lee; they listen, and hear the far off voice s of Calhoun and Clay. Russell is taking no part in the pre-Convention maneuvers, and may not even go to Chicago as a delegate, but other Southerners volunteer to explain the South’s feelings.