"Which One Is He?"

As Adlai Stevenson's motorcade rolled into Democratic Baltimore last week, housewives craned out of open windows to catch sight of the first Democratic presidential candidate to visit their city since 1932. Through the small street-corner crowds gathered along Stevenson's route rippled the question "Which one is he?" It was a question which haunted the Stevenson party. In the West, crowds had sometimes given their cheers to Campaign Manager Wilson Wyatt, mistaking him for Stevenson, to whom he bears a slight resemblance.

At Baltimore's Fifth Regiment Armory, Illinois' governor strained the enthusiasm of a strongly Democratic crowd with a serious discussion of inflation. Suggesting that tight price and wage controls might be necessary, he also made a point of governmental economy. Said he proudly: "I've vetoed more appropriations than any governor in the history of Illinois, and I kind of like the exercise."

Three days later, at Indianapolis, Stevenson again promised to keep federal spending at a minimum, and hit at Ike with the charge that military men are notoriously careless of costs. Then, moving on to Paducah, Ky., the Stevenson party stopped off to visit "Angles,".home of Veep Alben Barkley, who served 140 fried chickens and eleven hams to his guests. During lunch at Angles, Stevenson was presented with a trophy of the 1892 presidential campaign--a watch-fob bearing the pictures of Democrat Grover Cleveland and his vice presidential running mate, Stevenson's grandfather. The giver, a Paducah lawyer, explained that he had had the watch fob for 60 years and he wanted Stevenson to keep it for another 60. "And when I get through with it." quipped Stevenson, "I'll give it to Barkley."

After lunch, Stevenson mounted the steps of McCracken County Courthouse for an informal speech in which he sang Barkley's praises and expressed himself unsurprised that a platform had collapsed under Eisenhower at Richmond, Va. Cracked Stevenson: "I've been telling him for two months that nobody could stand on that platform." At Louisville, later the same day, the Illinois governor blasted Ike's foreign policy views in less whimsical terms (see col. 1).

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