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- September 1, 1952THIRD PARTIESIt's a Free Country
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- A surprising number of American boys (& girls) grow up to
- run for President. In 1952, in addition to Adlai Stevenson and
- Dwight Eisenhower, there are at least eleven presidential
- nominees. These eleven are the candidates of the "third parties"-
- serious, sinister or silly. Among this year's notable third
- parties:
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- Progressive. For President, wealthy San Francisco Lawyer
- Vincent Hallinan, who recently spent five months in jail for
- contempt of court during the perjury trial of Labor Leader Harry
- Bridges; for Vice President, Mrs. Charlotta Bass, 62-year-old
- former publisher of a California Negro newspaper. Candidate
- Hallinan, whose followers favor immediate disarmament and
- "cooperation" with Russia, last week asked Harry Truman for the
- same intelligence briefing given Adlai Stevenson and offered
- Dwight Eisenhower. He got no answer. Hallinan's predecessor as
- Progressive candidate in 1948 was henry A. Wallace, who has
- repudiated the party as a Communist front.
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- Socialist. For President, 55-year-old Darlington Hoopes, a
- Reading, Pa. lawyer; for Vice President, Samuel Friedman, second
- in command of a New York social workers' union. Hoopes and
- Friedman hope to get on the ballot in 25 states, plan a
- nationwide campaign to promote the Socialist gospel.
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- Socialist Labor. For President, Eric Hass, editor of the
- party organ, The Weekly People; for Vice President. Stephen
- Emery, a New York subway dispatcher. Hass, who dismisses British
- Laborites as "phony Socialists," is plumping for establishment of
- a "Socialist Industrial Republic" with a legislature based on
- industrial rather than geographic divisions.
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- Socialist Workers. For President, Farrell Dobbs, 45, former
- A.F.L. Teamsters' Union organizer; for Vice President, 35-year-
- old Mrs. Myra Tanner Weiss, party organizer in Los Angeles. As
- followers of the late Leon Trotsky, the Socialist Workers are
- considered fallen angels (or "lousy deviationists") by orthodox
- Communists. This year the Socialist Workers Party will try to get
- on the ballot in 20 states, will campaign for immediate U.S.
- withdrawal from the Korean war.
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- Prohibition. For President. Stuart Hamblen, cowboy singer,
- former race-horse owner and "converted alcoholic": for Vice
- President. Dr. Enoch Arden Holtwick, retired history professor of
- Greenville, Ill. The Prohibitionists hope to get on the ballot in
- 30 states.
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- Church of God Bible. For President. Bishop Homer A.
- Tomlinson, general overseer of the Church of God; for Vice
- President, Bishop Willie I. Bass, North Carolina overseer of the
- church. Tonlinson and Bass, who favor righteousness and peace,
- hope to get on the ballot in 30 states, but admit that New York
- looks like the only sure bet. They plan to stage a five-day peace
- conference this month at Childersburg, Ala., the feature of which
- will be the beating of swords into plowshares. From a blacksmith.
- Bishop Tomlinson recently took lessons in sword-into-plowshare-
- beating and has been practicing the art regularly in his Queens
- Village, N.Y. home.
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- America First. For President (without his consent), General
- Douglas MacArthur; for Vice President (without his consent),
- virginia's Senator Harry Byrd. party Chairman Lar Daly, a Chicago
- businessman "a dignified silence," but Party Chaplain E. Douglas
- MacArthur of Bensenville, Ill, is sure that the general, whom he
- claims as a second cousin, "is watching our progress with great
- interest." Progress to date: petition to get on the Illinois
- ballot rejected because it was submitted without the outside
- binding required by law.
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- Christian Nationalist. For President (without his consent),
- General Douglas MacArthur: for Vice President (without his
- consent). California State Senator Jack B. Tenney, Blood brother
- to rabblerousing Gerald L.D. Smith's anti-Semitic anti-Negro
- Christian Nationalist Crusade the Christian Nationalist party has
- filed for a place on the Texas and Missouri ballots.
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- Poor Man's. For President, Henry Krajewski. Secaucus, N.J.
- pig farmer and tavern owner; for Vice President, Frank Jenkins of
- Rahway, N.J. Krajewski-whose campaign buttons read "For President
- Krajewski I Like"-has gotten his ticket on only one state ballot
- (New Jersey).
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- Greenback. For President, 72-year-old Seattle Grocer
- Frederick Proehl; for Vice President, Edward J. Bedell,
- Indianapolis contractor. The Greenbackers, who favor immediate
- abolition of Government bonds and issuance of paper money
- unbacked by metal reserves, had 14 Representatives in the
- Congress of 1878. This year, admits Proehl, they "won't make much
- of a scratch." Grocer Proehl is not discouraged, however. "The
- great majority of my customers," said he recently, "feel that it
- is quite an honor to do business with a presidential candidate."
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- American. Still a gleam in the eye of Colonel Robert
- ("Bertie") McCormick. McCormick has been wrestling with his
- conscience ever since the Republican Party nominated Dwight
- Eisenhower, whom the colonel considers little better than a New
- Dealer. Strong factors operating to keep the colonel in the fold
- were the influence of his wife, who is reconciled to Ike, the
- heritage of his Chicago Tribune, a bulwark of Republicanism since
- 1856, and family tradition ("My grandfather founded the
- Republican Party"). Last week, however, the colonel decided that
- "I will be imposed upon no longer" nd announced that "the time
- has come to organize . . . the American Party." Though he
- suggested that the American Party should not nominate a
- presidential ticket until 1956, the colonel nonetheless had a
- current battle plan for would-be members. The McCormick plan:
- Give no support to either Eisenhower ("I Too Ike") or Stevenson
- ("the nominee of the C.I.O."), but concentrate on voting for such
- "patriotic candidates" for Congress as Wisconsin's Senator Joe
- McCarthy, Indiana's Senator William Jenner and Washington's
- Senator Harry Cain.
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- Washington Peace. For President, Mrs. Ellen Linea W. Jensen,
- 50-year-old Miami grandmother and astrologist who claims to be in
- close communion with George Washington "on the other side"; for
- Vice President, a man whose identity Mrs. Jensen doesn't feel
- free to reveal. Candidate Jensen, who says she was a "Himalayan
- Master" in a previous incarnation, promises to stamp out
- Communism "within nine minutes" of her inauguration. Though her
- party is "very loosely organized" and has only "a bare
- possibility" of getting on the ballot in Texas and Washington,
- Mrs. Jensen believes she is a shoo-in, since her horoscope is
- favorable.
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- American Vegetarian. For President, Brigadier General
- Herbert C. Holdridge (ret.); for Vice President, Symon Gould, a
- N.Y. rare-book dealer. The party is firmly pacifist and opposes
- the slaughter of "any living thing." "We believe," says Gould,
- "women should be childbearing instead of fur-bearing." The
- Vegetarians don't want to get on any ballot. "The only good
- parties are those that don't get on the ballot," says Gould. "If
- we got into office, we'd probably be like the Republicans and the
- Democrats. Only thing they have is power. And you know about
- power. Breeds evil."
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