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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, has requested MacArthur to maintain "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.
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 rabble-rousing Gerald L. K. Smith's antiSemitic, anti-Negro Christian Nationalist Crusade, the Christian Nationalist Party has filed for a place on the Texas and Missouri ballots.
Poor Man's. For President, Henry Krajewski, Secaucus, N. J. pig farmer and tavern owner (TIME, March 17); 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).
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."
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 (TIME, Aug. 11, 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" and 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.