Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-04
Wi||kie Urges
All Voters TO
Cast Ballots
Pledges Support
For 2-Term Limit
On Presidency
Tert OF Willkie Statements
on Page Al
BY j. A. O'LEARY,
Star Staff Correspondent.

NEW YORK, Nov. 4-On the eve
of the hardest-fought election in
many years, Wendell Willkie, the
Republican nominee, today urged the
American people to take advantage
of their right to vote tomorrow, re
gardless of weather, distance or diff
ficulty."
After having announced last night
that one of his first acts, if elected,
would be to recommend constitu-
tional limit of eight years, or less.
on the presidency, Mr.. Willkie also
assured the Nation today that he
stands before it without pledges or
promises to any one, except those he
has made to the people as whole.
Referring specifically to the Cab
met, he said he has neither offered
nor discussed with any person any
appointment to any Cabinet position
or any other position, and have
never authorized any one else to DO
So"
Tomorrow, he said, sis the day
on which all Americans of voting
age have their chance to show the
world the force and power of the free
ballot in a democracy dedicated TO
peace and progress.
Duty to Vote.
voting is the only way our cit
liens have to control their Govern
ment. Failure to vote is not only
an abdication of the high privilege
of American citizenship, but is an
acouiescence in whatever loss Of lib
erty may come if the power Of the
bosses be not out-voted."
During the seven weeks in which
he campaigned from coast to coast
Mr.. Willkie encountered less than
two days of rain. Day after day
he arose to find the sun shining
along the path of his campaign. If,
as many observers believe, there is
a Republican wing in rural areas.
rain tomorrow over any extensive
part of the country might prove
more serious to his chances than
cloudy skies would have been last
month.
Mr.. WILKES close advisers are
confident, however, that the great
majority of his supporters would
not be deferred from voting by rainy
weather. In the cities rain should
not prove any more of a handicap
to one side than the other.
Barring a last-minute change in
plans, Mr.. Willkie will devote this
last day before the polls open to
radio appeals to the voters this aft
ernoon and tonight.
Mr.. Willkie is scheduled for three
radio broadcasts today. The first,
at 3:15 pm. over c. B. S., is spon-
sored by the Associated Wilkie
Clubs of America on the Kathleen
Norris program.
Over the same network, the NOM
inee will join his running mate,
Senator Charles L. McNary, and
Representative Martin, Republican
national chairman, in a program
from 1918 to II pm.
Ridicules Roosevelt.
Ridiculing the Presidents state
ment at Cleveland Saturday night
that he would not seek a fourth
term, Mr.. Willkie said "All of us re-
call that nearly four years ago, on
February %, 1887, he talked then Of
the time when he would leave the
White House in January, 1e41."
But now" the Republican nomi-
nee continued, he talks Of leaving
the White House at some subsequent
and more remote date, and of the
condition in which he hopes to leave
the country then"
Meanwhile, as the zero hour in
memorable campaign grew near.
Willkie supporters scanned all avail
able information on the probable
(See wILLKIE, Page A-3D