REPUBLICANS: Steamroller Stopped

Overconfidence beat the Republicans in 1948—and it can beat them again in 1952. Two years ago the Democrats began to slip, and that smug feeling overcame one wing of the Republican Party. The whole Taft candidacy was based on the assumption that millions of voters were panting to vote Republican for the first time.

Bob Taft and his friends deny that they think this, but last week at Chicago their decisions showed they did not care how much ammunition they handed over to the Democrats.

"You're Another!" The contested-delegates fight is a moral issue, and the circumstances of the 1952...