Imperial Valley Press

'Stop Wallace
Democrats Eye
Parley Strategy

By LYLE C. WILSON

WASHINGTON, May 29. (UP)— Frustrated conservative Democrats are turning from their futile anti-fourth term campaign to the problem of preventing renomination of Henry A. Wallace of Iowa, for vice president.

There is increasing belief among Democrats here that President Roosevelt will insist on Wallace's renomination this year as he did in a surprise maneuver in 1940. Even some cabinet members are known to oppose Wallace now and the mere thought of him gives avowed anti-Roosevelt party men acute melancholia.

Any one of 50 or so democrats would satisfy the anti-Wallace forces, but their weakness is that they have not gotten together behind a single individual and forcefully presented his qualifications to Mr. Roosevelt. Many of them would like a stand-out business man for Mr. Roosevelt's running mate but concede that there is hardly any chance of that.

Primarily they want a vice presidential nominee who, if the president did not serve out a fourth term, would restore party control to the Democratic organization as it existed before 1932 when the new deal organization was born.

If Mr. Roosevelt insists upon Wallace, the vice presidential nomination will arouse a bitter, if one-sided, contest at the Democratic national convention, perhaps even upsetting chairman Robert E. Hannegan's plans for a short three or four day meeting.

More likely, however, the anti-Wallace faction will go down fighting on the first ballot after warning the convention - and suggesting to the nation's voters - that keeping Wallace on the ticket will make it doubly hard for many organization Democrats to support the ticket this year.

Mr. Roosevelt is believed to want Wallace for precisely the reason that the conservatives do not want him—the President evidently hopes that Wallace can carry on in command of the new deal-democratic party after he steps down.