The Daily Mail from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 16

SIXTEEN--THE DAILY MAIL, Hagerstown, Md. April 13, Marlow Ponders On Alcorn And His November Forecast By JAMES MARLOW Associated Prtss News Analyst WASH ING! ON Wt For frankness Meadc Alcorn takes the cake, coffee, knives, forks, spoons, napkins and tablecloth. As chairman of the Republican National Committee he's supposed to spark and pcp-talkthc Repub- licans to victory in next November's congressional elections Yesterday he admitted he does not think his party can win the Senate and predicted only a bare majority tor it in the House. Could anyone remember such forthrightness from the chairman of a national political committee Republican or Democratic? This writer took a very small poll at once amprjg newspapermen. None could remember.

But the 50-year-did Alcorn, a Hartford, lawyer, had rapidly been leading up to yesterday's predictions which, however true they may be, can hardly, make him popular with all Republicans. Twice before this month he expressed doubts his party could take the Senale and said he thought it might win the House if the recession didn't get worse. Alcorn was President Eisenhower's choice for party chairman and the national committee duly What Buys in Room Lots! WALLPAPER for every room Over 100 Pattern! HILLS TOY and NOVELTY STORE elected him. That was Jan. 22, 1957.

Immediately, there was a mixed reaction within the party on the wisdom of picking Alcorn, considered a liberal. Highly conservative Rep. Hoffman, Michigan Republican, reacted at once this way: "The conservative wing 1 of the Republican parly has been liauidated and is about to be Alcorn's job pays him no salary. Since January 1957, he has traveled many thousands of miles around the United Stales, making speeches, trying to stimulate Republicans' confidence in themselves and public support for them. As, time went on the liassasje he had to carry Kot heavier by the month.

He had to socnd a lot of his time defending the Eisenhower administration from attacks on its fiscal- and foreign policies, its missile program, and its handling of the recession. Like all other Republican party chairmen before him, he did the usual with gusto: slam-banging the Democrats. As time went on judging from the increasing of his April statements -he became less hopeful of victory. This was his staled reason for his gloom about the Senate: "Because so many Senate seats exposed this fall are in traditional Democratic territory." Next November all 435 House seats and 34 of the 96 Senate seats are up for grabs. The Democrats won control of both houses in the 1956 elections while Kisenhower was winning the presidency.

In Hie now with five vacancies Democrats out number Republicans 232 to 198. Of the 34 Senate seats involved in the November elections, 21 now are held by Republicans. Of the 13 Democratic seats, six are in the Democratic South. So Republicans will be running far the greater risk. An insurmountable risk, Alcorn seems to feel.

State Line Dual Drive Scheduled The State Surltan Club has announced that a double drive will tivkc place in the village this Saturday. Goodwill drive will be made during the morning hours for clothing, toys, shoes, books, small electrical appliances and items that may be. restored at the Goodwill workshops. Beginning at 1:00 p. the Scouts will conduct a drive for newspapers and magazines, for the benefit ot Troop No.

35, Girl Scouts of State Line. The canvass will extend to the airport on the southside, Kuhn's radio shop on the west, the Drive-In on the north, and the Ridge Hoad intersection on the east. All persons are asked to place, the Goodwill Bags, available all business places in the area, on their front -porches not later; than 10:00 a. m. The papers magazines are asked to be; placed for disposition not later' than 1:00 p.

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