Hi-Yo Taylor!

Unlike Henry Wallace, whom he admires extravagantly, Idaho's extraverted Senator Glen H. Taylor throws no boomerangs, chews no rutabagas. But he has his moments. Once he plumped his family on the steps of the Capitol and, banjo in hand, crooned a tune about how he needed a home. Last fall, he rode up to the Capitol steps on horseback, following a countrywide "peace" tour.

For all his shenanigans, Democrat Glen Taylor is no fool. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he got little formal education, made up for it by wolfing every volume on social and economic matters he could lay his hands on. He herded sheep for a while, for several years made a living as a tent-show cowboy in a Western stock company.

His first three tries to get into Congress, during which he campaigned by singing hillbilly songs from a sound truck, failed. In 1944, he cut out the tomfoolery and was elected to the Senate.

Taylor's record in & out of Congress has been nearly everything Henry Wallace could ask for. He was a rank isolationist in 1940, a total-war man after Pearl Harbor. He stands foursquare with Henry against the Marshall Plan. In the Senate, he voted to keep interim aid funds for Europe down to less than half the amount ultimately granted. He fought the Taft-Hartley Act, favored continued price & rent controls.

He began to be talked about as Wallace's running mate the day after Henry announced his third party. For a while Taylor was coy, but this week he made up his mind. He went on the air in Washington with a speech entitled "Is This the Time for a Third Party?" His not surprising answer: yes. He accepted the invitation to be Henry Wallace's candidate for Vice President of the U.S., and said: "I am, going to feel good inside."

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