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OLY FOR PAPE CHASIMG LEWIS COLUSN. AOOH: ADV. HIS COLUNN FX. TR A.M. AND P.M. PA RS.MUST IDT BE PUBLISHED BE MASHINOTON REPORTS BY FULTON LEWIS, JR. COPYRGHT, 1Y6I, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, WASHiNGroN, Sept. 4--The end may be near for Paul J garrulous native of Manitoba, Canada who somehow wangled a. ispenser-in-chief of Democratic patronage. Corbin is a wisconsin Democrat who hooked on to campaign train as it rolled through that state last spring. He played a key wie in tne cagpaign that foliowed Jrk's primary victory cver Hubert Humphrey. He was named last month as special assistant to John M. Bailey, chairman of the Democratic Nationa Cownlttee.d C Bailey and Attorney General Robert Kennedy agreed to put Corb2n In charge of patronage for the new Administration. One Washington source put it this way:. "He talka to persons looking for jobs on the New Frontier anc. also recruits likely prospects. He advises on these matters with leaders of the Kennedy Administration, but principally with Attorney General Kennedy, his political sponsor and patron.". Reaction to the Corbin appointment was swift and violent.. Democrats from across the country protested to Bailey and the Attorney General. Rep. Clement Zablocki of wisconsin was particularly angered, charging that Corbin was an opportunist, "unknown" in the state's regular Democratio organization. , The Milwaukee Journal, leading Democratic newspaper in the state, then jumped into the fight against Corbin. State reporter Corbin's past, which included: *Working, some fifteen years ago, with top Wisconsin Communists. These included Fred Bassett Blair, Emil Costello. and Harold Christoffel (who served a perjury term in federal prison for swearing under oath that he was not a Communist) among others. *Soliciting membership and furds for the Communist Party. Corbin denies the allegation.. #Being activein left-wing unions in the Midwest for many years, dating back at least to l939, when he was an organizer in Illinois for the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. (MORE) 77- 51387-143