| Show T 1 4 It :i I : t ' '' " ' f T h 1 f 4 1 : Mee 11 I :: I " t ) r ' ' iana's I 1 Oh f I I - t - - 14 No strict GOP ' L — lkie's son Wendell "party-liner- " i tJ 1 !'':''' ' : f 1 s - '0v WEIL FAULK breathe yea en opteolate en ilea pellikal center el Franklin D teenevell At leneees Democrat tether item is sea el temees lepoislicso me Mlle WiOkla sioreemp ea LAST A i':1' : i ri I - - I f c? i 1 40 ( ':"1 train stopped in Nampa one day last month a crowd pressed close to see the President Mr Truman broke Into a grin as he spotted two men in the crowd-tfamiliar figures The pair listened attentively as the President began to speak For these were Mr Truman's Republican "shadows" Their job: to look to listen and to report on his tour to GOP headquarters in Washington One was Victor Johnson executive secretary of the Republican Senate Campaign Committee The other younger was the Committee's assisAS : I :: i rit ( 1 : t- I - - '' ' 1 if t 'f': i i 1 rkr I ' ir 9 e : '! i i - I i4 4 4' '4'4' p - i 4 Willkie's son In 1940 when this husky young Hoosier Republican was 20 more than 20 million Americans had voted for his father and against Franklin D- Roosevelt for President Now ten years later the Hoosier has his own crumpled hat planted firmly if peripherally in the GOP ring It's a long political climb from the Indiana capitol at Indianapolis and a station platform in Idaho to the national scene But it's a climb friends believe Philip Wilkie can make if he wants It was no accident that he quit the bright lights of the east to cut his political teeth at the grass roots level in the Indiana legislature The young lawyer wanted it that way So did his Dad "A man" Wendell Willkie once told his son "has to succeed in state politics before he can be of consequence in the national picture" Philip took the advice In 1948 he went from New York back home to Rushville to seek the GOP nomination to the Indiana legislature His opponent was an Republican wheel horse popular Raymond C Morgan Willkie's campaigning his hand train-watch- er k i : 'i: ft 111'"41k:1113) 1 4 g Indiana state legislator He was Philip Winkle the late Wendell tant chairman a k ''f fi 1- 1 4 :'' - '" ' REPUBLICAN Chairman Wolter Norris of Rush County offers some advice to young Winkle ! 4 ' wo p :1 s:::1' HARRY TRITMAN'S 11 Idaho H i :1 re-p- '2 I' q - ' ''- - - - ' LUNCHEON CLUBS are best Willkie's boards His on indefatigable ing sound- speaker : 4 Princeton-and-Columbia-educa- - t h 11!74"$4' I i t' 1 i- N jvf -- - - st - 1 - - " --s- : '''' -- - - s 1 ' 7?"- - - ' 1 :1 '? tt 1 g "A"''' L ' 01 - 1 t - I ':( door-to-do- or WILLKIE supervises one of mother's Rushville farms Tenant Joe Kramer does the fanning 1 1' ""-' ii t :i ' tt '' j i 1AL - e 4i: LI q - "- 71' f i qt - ' '41r --'''' ' I tqlt- 41 444416'-- d "1 i I '- r--ed ' 1 "If We lose the Form Vote 1 ' towns former librorion is "second mother" to young Willkie in Rushville I ?MADE Atm I soul-searchi- ng sufficient observers believe to send him to Congress any time he chooses to run Winkle goes to great lengths to point out thatt the ideas he propounds are his own: He discourages the thought that he's anyone's protege "My mother has taught me a great deal about getting along with people" he says He has called Senator Robert Taft "the ablest man in public life" and when he visits the east he usually drops in on Senator Owen Brewster of Maine He also admires Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr of Massachusetts When he's not "politicking" Willkie oversees ce ng - r '' 1 I t - " 11141104 tóUed around WilUde ways nit the Democratic entry by 5000 votes legislator his record has been about par for the course: newcomers aren't expected to hog the spotlight and he has shrewdly refrained from sowing political wild oats A Navy veteran he was one of six members of the Indiana House As MARY SLIETH "He'd make a Good Husband" AND Mon young Willkie sounds like a IT man who wants votes And if his penchant for GOP has not endeared him to some party stalwarts — his prestige in his home counties has not been lost on local leaders It's ' -- '4 ' - i 't - A4 I 1 4 and back-fenshaking chatting voters off of Rush and Henry Republican paid Counties gave him better than 84 percent of the primary vote Even Morgan was impressed "Half the places I go" he said during the campaign "he's been there The other half he is there I'm afraid to go to sleep tonight for fear 111 find him under the bed!" dog-patti- to vote against the veterans bonus He has yet to introduce a bill of his own But if he hasn't made brash noises that doesn't mean he has nothing to say When he speaks it's in a low key with a natural twang and drawl "I'm a Rushville farmer from the streets of New York" he likes to say As a politician he is about the most indefatigable luncheon club speaker most Hoosiers can remember And like his father he's as likely to lecture his own party as dig at the Democrats Typical sallies: Of the President: "I don't think we should call Harry Truman c man following an ideology To hear some Republican speeches you would He IS just a man think Truman was a crusader trying to keep the best lob he ever had" About the GOP: "If we lose the farm vote all we'll have left is the social register" About Democrats: "Don't call them socialists Call them conservatives That's They aren't what they are Their only solution is government and more government" About "plain talk": "President McKinley talked about the full dinner pail and things plain people understood Republicans then didn't talk like a convention of bankers" '- w q px41 '''Ilwhorgints' 7 fi t 1 ' 1 - ' 7 -- 01!- 7- t'Av T"'!4” 4A a- '1- - I f i I --- I - - $ V I - - 1 t' - -' - 4'' ' :-- SHADOWING the President (and learning?) young Winkle followed Truman on trip west |
