Abstract

Stassen of Minnesota

Harold E. Stassen, who has very little chance of becoming Republican candidate for President of the United States but a very good chance of being named for Vice-President, is easily the most impressive of the men whose names will be placed before the Chicago, Illinois convention. Stassen has a program. It could be a more inspiring program, but this year even a firm stand on widows' pensions makes a Republican sound forthright. Stassen is in favor of world organization and of abandoning most, though not quite all, New Deal controls on the economy. He is fairly specific in saying what he means by world organization and in telling which controls he would relax, which he would abandon. If Stassen is in fact a liberal, his record as Governor of Minnesota offers no more proof than his record in party politics. The national and international issues on which he has spoken so well in other parts of the country yield to strictly local concerns to Minnesota. He has used the spoils issue to good effect, denouncing patronage in campaigns and paying off with it the day after election.