See How They Run

In the several states, campaign-year plans sprouted last week like crocuses in the spring sunshine:

P: In Utah, windmill-tilting Republican Governor J. Bracken Lee, 57, who has refused to pay his 1955 federal income tax because "the Constitution says nothing about spending tax dollars in foreign lands," picked the eve of income-tax day to announce his candidacy for a third term. Almost certain to be aligned against him are such powerful forces as educational groups, angered by the Lee economy ax, and Republican Party regulars, resentful of his attacks on the Eisenhower Administration. Despite such opposition, and a widely quoted Leeism ("No honest man would want more than one term as governor"), he goes into the campaign a slight favorite over formidable opposition in both parties. Reason: Utahans admire his bodaciousness, regard him as one of the best governors they have ever had.

P:In Vermont, the nation's first woman lieutenant governor, Consuelo Northrop Bailey, 56, declared that she would not seek office in 1956, thereby upsetting a long-standing Vermont tradition that the lieutenant governor inevitably runs next for governor. Since flouncing into politics 30 years ago, Consuelo Bailey has handily defeated male opponents for such offices as county prosecutor, state representative, state senator, speaker of the Vermont house, and lieutenant governor. Understandably nervous male politicos noted that while last week's statement took her out of this year's gubernatorial race, it carefully avoided mention of the future.

P: In Oregon, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, home from Washington to start running hard for Democrat Wayne Morse's U.S. Senate seat, walked into an unexpectedly tough fight in his own party. While McKay has been winding up his Cabinet duties, Philip Hitchcock, 51, public relations director of Lewis and Clark College, has been wringing Republican hands from Hell's Canyon to Astoria, and gaining strength in rural areas where McKay has lost friends because of the Administration's power policies. "Everything will be all right," said a McKay worker confidently, "when Doug gets out and meets his old friends again."

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