ABSTRACT
The Scripps-Howard “dry creek” complaint became the campaign’s most memorable editorial. Its appearance that August had confirmed the trepidation surfacing in the Dwight D. Eisenhower ranks. The most partisan foreign-policy position taken by Eisenhower during the campaign adopted the views of John Foster Dulles. Eisenhower, who was only superficially acquainted with its author at the time, responded in his characteristic manner of contesting another’s position. Whatever private agreements Dulles may have reached with the General after their meeting in Paris, the lawyer’s public deportment suggested loyalty to the party rather than to any of its potential candidates. Eisenhower could even agree, but his political mission was in McCarthy’s terrain, not Stevenson’s. Wisconsin’s Governor Walter Kohler, also a candidate for re-election, pleaded that the Marshall reference was unduly provocative, that Eisenhower could praise the General at any other time, that it could jeopardize the entire Republican statewide ticket.
