| Show tf I Willkie Again 44 If G. G O. O P. P Him It Will Make History Dr By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Already Washington Is talking about 1944 as if it it were just around the cor cor- ner The political prognosticators prognosticators prognosticators are burning midnight juice and slinging Ink from Page 1 to Classified trying to guess the future of Wendell L L. Willkie and the part he will play In the Republican party In the coming years Lets Let's leave that to the Pol Really they dont don't know much more about lt iti than we do as most of them will admit The shape of things to come will mold the future of the Republican can party and the Democratic party too and of Wendell L. L Willkie but but but- IF Mr Willkie is nominated for forthe forthe forthe the presidency again in 1944 he will be upsetting another Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican cart apple-cart and one that has been running smoothly for 86 years because he will be bethe bethe bethe the first defeated candidate in inthe inthe inthe the history of ot the party ever to have been nominated for a second sec sec- second ond try Not only that but if Mr Willkie Willkie Will WIll- kie kle should even be considered as a serious contender for the nomination by next convention time he will be kicking over a precedent that has been broken by only two men in either of the major parties since pre pre- Civil war days dars Democratic Exceptions Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan both were nominated nominated nominated nomi nomi- on the Democratic ticket three times Bryan of course never won the election Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- Cleveland land did twice and although he was a defeated candidate when he was nominated in 1892 this was somewhat offset by the fact that he had been president for four years BEFORE his defeat These are the two exceptions and both were Democrats Lets Let's look to the roster of ot defeated Republican candidates The first candidate of the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican party as we know it today was General John Charles Fremont Indian fighter California California California Cali Cali- fornia hero and veteran of a dozen western ventures that had made him a national figure James Buchanan beat him in 1856 and although Fremont re remained remained re re- in the limelight a good many years he was territorial governor of Arizona and he was nominated by a rump convention convention convention conven conven- tion of Republican radicals at Cleveland in 1864 but withdrew in favor of Lincoln when he was convinced his candidacy might split the party vote he never really counted as a political force after his defeat James G G. Blame Blaine defeated by CI Cleveland v l nd in stayed sta stayed ed in the picture long enough to become Benjamin Harrisons Harrison's secretary of state 92 1889 but when Harri Harri- son was defeated he turned t to to International law 5 Took Court Posts William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes went on from defeated candidacies to become become be be- come chief justices of the supreme supreme su su- preme court a position which precludes political activity Former Former For For- mer President Hoover and Alf AU M M. Landon are of course still on the political scene but conventions conventions con con- since their defeats have passed them by with little more more than a nod of courtesy On the Democratic side since 1860 there have been Stephen A. A Douglas who died shortly after Lincoln's first inaugural General George B. B McClellan Horatio Seymour and Horace Horac Greeley who were beaten betten by Grant Samuel J J. J Tilden defeated defeat defeat- ed by Rutherford B. B Hayes inthe Inthe in inthe the famous contested election General Winfield Scott Hancock the brilliant Union general wh who was defeated by Garfield and Alton B. B Parker who lost to Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 In nearly every instance these men mert retired to private life after their political Waterloos as did James M. M Cox the Dayton Ohio publisher and John W. W Davis the New York attorney Al Smiths Smith's defeat in 1928 has haj brought in its wake only his well-known well walks of succeeding succeeding succeed succeed- ing years and a split with the party to which he had given lifelong allegiance This is the record that Mr Willkie has to look back upon He may of course become the Republican Bryan or Cleveland but if he does hell he'll have to smash another Republican precedent prece prece- dent one dent one that Is probably even more firmly established than those he broke when he ran away with the party nomination in Philadelphia |
