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Show High-Lighting Politics By John Randall Page What type ot man will the Republican Re-publican National convention be neeking when the delegates convene con-vene late in June? This is the question that is pulsating, or agitating, Republican Republic-an minds in Washington and over the country today. The agitation agit-ation increases us it becomes more apparent that hd one candidate cand-idate for the Presidency will go tuts the convention with dominant domin-ant strength. Senator Taft and District Attorney Dewey will have it appears, almost an equal number num-ber of delegates, with the great block of uninstructed delegates finally determining the nominee. This means that instead of the! nomination coming on the first two or three ballots, the convention conven-tion is likely to resolve itself into a truly deliberate body to choose the ablest man to occupy the White House. It is thig growing indication that convention deliberation rather ra-ther tliaa pre-convention man- J euvering will determine thenom-inee thenom-inee which is giving greater em-phasis em-phasis to the question of what type of man is the Republican I Party, and the country, seeking. The specifications to which the nominee must be fitted are some, what as follows: Two-thirds of the nations of the world are at war. It is prob- able . that the war will continue with growing fury and increasing economic exhaustion of the belligerents bell-igerents through much of the administration ad-ministration of the next President. Presid-ent. While avoiding military participation par-ticipation itself, America can not avoid the repercussions frcjm the war. Who is the best man qualified through experience and ability to handle this critical situation; best able to make the commitments which will fall to America's lot without risking the costly entanglements entan-glements which might lead the nation into armed conflict itself? When peace finally comes, who is the man most qualified to wield America's influence at the peace table without handicap of the bitterness which President Roosevelt has so aroused in certain cert-ain sections of Europe as to negate neg-ate the natural influence of a Chief .Executive of the United' states? If the war continues and spreads who is the man who can regulate regul-ate the nation's economic forces with a devotion to American principles prin-ciples of free enterprise without moving in the direction of a permanent per-manent totalitarian state? Ten million people are still un employed in the United States after seven and one half years of the New Deal. Agriculture is prostrate, pro-strate, living by the margin of of governmental subsidies. Business Busin-ess is stagnant, with the flow of capital in-to new, job-creating enterprise virtually barred by New Deal experiments in government govern-ment control. Taxation is at its highest peak in history, oppressing oppress-ing little business, big business, and the individual worker. Subversive Sub-versive influences are spreading, with reports reaching Washington Washing-ton of attempts to establish "Fifth Column" movements such as destroyed Norway. All of these factors add P to onlv one thing: the November election will be the most important import-ant since that of 1860 when Abraham Ab-raham Lincoln was elected. The The Repulican National convention convent-ion will be the most important since I860, for there 1,000 persons per-sons will be charged with selecting select-ing the next President of the United Un-ited States. |
