Show WILLKIE WONT DO IN 1944 wendell L willkie the real man of the hour for the republican party in 1940 who polled the biggest popular vote ever given to a defeated presidential nominee and who still seems to be very popular with the rank and file of the voters of that party wont woric do as the presidential nominee in 1944 according to the big shots of the party who dom binate ina teits its policies we always had an idea that any person who wanted to could run for the nomination to this great office with the national organizations of the two parties supposed to campaign to elect the man after he is nominated but this is not so with the 1944 republican national committee or at least its chairman and part of its members while willkie is stumping the country and is claiming that some state delegations are pledged to him this early in the game with his name being entered in preferential primaries in others the national republican organization under chairman harrison spangler has apparently turned thumbs down on him they dont do this with the idea that he will lose as he did in 1940 because their chairman has made the asser ion that the republicans can win in 1944 with anybody therefore other reasons must be back of their determination to side cack him this year one of these afons may have been demonstrated by a recent speech given by govnor wills of vermont the most republican state in the union wills accuses the republican national commatee Comm itee of political manipulations ions to prevent a tree free choice of the 1944 nominee he says that mr air willkie is the outstanding republican of our tune time and the only person certain to win over the strongest democratic candidate he even went so far as to name the bloc of G 0 P leaders who were assuming the republicans can win with anybody and who were united on nothing but hatred fox for wendell willkie the men he accuses of being in on the deal to stop willkie are alt alf london landon 1936 republican presidential nominee john hamilton 1940 republican chairman who went the limit in trying to elect willkie then joseph pew who rules republican politics in pennsylvania and the isolationist group headed toy by senator nye the rev gerald L K smith and the mccormack patterson newspaper syndicate the last last two two and the newspaper chain are arc known to be rank isolationists and the first named although isolationists at hearth heart are keeping their mouth shut on that score until after the election it is therefore pretty plain why that group wants to stop willkie the latter who was almost what might have been called a stooge or a mouthpiece for the above named group and their partners in 1940 has turned into a man with definite 1 ideas about national as well as international ter problems and the way should pe e settled in fact his ideas are too plain and so much different from theirs that they would stop him at any cost they would rather name a man who if elected will be nothing more than a mouthpiece for the clique they represent and we are fairly sure that this clique is imperialistic big business and the isolationist wing of the rc he publican party |