Show dispelling THE FOG by charles michelson mr willkie says that the selection of edward J flynn boss flynn was the designation he employed as chairman of the democratic national committee speaks for itself the mildness of the utilities candidates di dates comment in camp comparison arlson with his virtuous reflections on the iniquity of other conspicuous democratic political leaders is quite understandable when tammany county committeeman wendell willkie collaborated with and worked in A accord accod d with the democratic colleague from the bronx the latter was still doss boss flynn and it is not on record that mr willkie found the association it ir any way distasteful and that was only a few years ago the republican candidate for president is naturally contemptuous ous of bosses except such bosses as mr joe pew of pennsylvania fa whose exploit according to published accounts in literally locking up the pennsylvania delegation to the G 0 P convention so that it could not reach the convention floor to vote for taft made will kies nomination possible beside he probably figures that the favor of those who boss the republican bosses is more important that that ot of titular leaders the minority party has referred to the democratic convention in chicago as a steamroller steam roller show well the democratic candidate had approximately of the 1100 delegates elected in the primaries pleda cd to him the bosses of the boss the republican candidate carried no primary election he had no delegates worth mentioning but he had what was more important at philadelphia he had the backing of the men who pay the bills they wanted one of their own and picked for the job the head of one of the biggest mergers ever launched in wall it was a logical choice a leader of the big interests to challenge the leader of the plain people consequently we have in the present campaign a perfectly definite division between the r reactionary and the liberal groups among our people naturally every newspaper ca capable P of being influenced by the pressure direct or indirect of the great corpo corporations rations and the men who pull the strings in wall street are enthusiastically for the election of the president of the commonwealth and southern corporation to the headship of our government naturally they are parading the names of fugitive democrats who have announced themselves on tha th republican side this year individual defections from either party have marked every election fo for r a century and this year nearly all of these names are those of disappointed politicians like senator burke of nebraska who was defeated for the democratic nomination to succeed himself because the nebraska people felt that he had already I 1 deserted his party others are th those ose whose natural affiliations are with the money crowd in fact nearly all of them are men who turned their backs on their party long ago they are the folks who formed the liberty league that made so much noise and accomplished so little in 1936 the disgruntled man in politics politic can deliver his own vote and no more it would have been bad news had most of these people been bean democrats this year and not merely dem of long ago it is not news that they are still on the outside looking in it is not surprising that mr mf willkie half poses as a liberal in view of the very considerable element in the republican party he could not intelligently do other otherwise he was a successful corporation 1 alyer during nearly ul ill of his professional fess ional life and he was a sincere corporation man in ns nis capacity vs as lead head of the commonwealth and S ahern empire which dominated dimina abed ted ie e power world much as did the he insull corporation wyach crashed jat about the tim amr Will kies corporation was attaining its zenith lie was an opportunist as a corporation c head and it is reasonable to expect the same devotion to expediency as a national candidate however the coming election will i not be decided on what mr willkie did as a corporation head but on the simpler issue of whether this country is willing to take a chance on what sort of an administration crin ann i e expected ex P acted from a candidate of cf his training affiliation ard and environ went it really is not very hard to figure the outcome the registration figures show that in nearly every eat ry state the democrats have huge majorities jori ties and the defections are arc nc negligible li the reiteration of half a dozen names of the alleged converts to lo the G 0 P suggests the expedient of the old theatre where they marched I 1 a few soldiers across the stage into tie the wings and round and round again to give the impression of an army such a procession has no political meaning the overturn of an administration is heralded by definite evidences by the alienation of an important and numerous group for example and of such a movement there is no sign moreover rarely has there been a change of administration unless it was preceded by the election of a hostile Congress and the democrat ic party holds the senate almost three to one and controls the house by nearly a hundred majority |