The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-09-05
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Willkie found that his ardent sup
porters consisted of two groups: the
independent Willkie clubs, and the
dissident Willkie Democrats. His
less ardent supporters were a good
deal more basic. They consisted of
the Republican party regulars, in
and out of congress. The regulars
were grumbling like Napoleon's Old
Guard before Moscow.
Willkie himself is an ex-Democrat
and very Independent Of the regu-
lars in his ways and habits. He is
disinclined to lean on the Old Guard,
although the Old Guard begs to be
leaned against. Old Guardisti COM
planned that the candidate was too
casual about consulting-and obey
ing-them. Then again, many of
the 0. G. are isolation-minded, while
the Independents and Democratic
refugees are inclined, like Willkie
himself, to be interventionists. De-
spite all the Hoosier getup, Willkie
definitely, they said, has an eastern
outlook (and maybe he has).
Some of the regulars, too, thought
that their man" Willkie was too
New Dealish. He did not denounce
many of the Roosevelt reforms, but
adopted them in principle. He
merely promised to Improve" the
administration of what the regulars
thought was racket. In fact, the
New Dealers said that Willkie was,
substantially, their man." too.
This made the regulars-the o. c.
huffier than ever.
F. d. Bonaparte
F. D. Roosevelt Bonaparte found
himself in the same position as Ma
poleon, in the decisive year 1915.
Bonaparte proper had then served
two terms, and he wanted third
one. His first term had lasted for
IA years. Then came Elba. His
second term lasted 100 days. Then
came Waterloo. But the point was
this:
Bonaparte (like Roosevelt) de-
pended on the proletariat, as against
the economic royalists and Bour-
bons. The French proletariat hated
the Napoleonic CONSUMPTION like poi
son, and many American proletari-
ans dislike the prospect of conscrip-
ton, too. But regardless of their
anti-conscript attitude, the French
plebs rallied round Napoleon, be-
cause they feared the Bourbons
would repeal all the Napoleonic so
cial reforms. The American plebs,
against CONSUMPTION though they
may be, have the same attitude.
They fear that if the "Bourbons"
recapture the White House, even
though they would scrap conscrip-
ton, they might also scrap the
Roosevelt reformation. Hence, the
man in the street is for Roosevelt
Bonaparte.
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They died like flies, the bigshots
did. Sir Oliver Lodge of England
was one of them. He was the great
scientist, mental telepathist, and
spiritualist. He was 80, and much
beloved by everybody in all coun-
tries. Then there was LeonTrotsky,
or Comrade Braunstein. He was the
organizer of the Red army, the bril-
liant author, the mortal foe of Stain,
Hitler, Churchill and others.
He was pickaxed by a "good
FRIEND" down Mexico way. Every
body blamed it on Stain and his
dread secret Gestapo, but this was
really rather unlikely. Trotsky was
no longer of enough importance to
poster, and Stain is no fool, or time
waster.
There was also the notable Max
Steuer that died. He was New York
city's best-known lawyer-though
not its bestowed legalist. Senator
Wagner of New York indicated that
he was such a philanthropist and
humanitarian, but many people
shook their heads.
All agreed he was brilliant, smart,
and able to the humph degree. Lord
Strickland also died. He was the
famous British governor of the
Malta naval base, himself half
Maltese, but big social up-and-up
in the British Isles and in the col
onies. Strickland was a Catholic,
but he fought the pope for four
years, then suddenly collapsed and
apologized most abjectly. That was
in 1892. He was also Count Della
Catena and Baron Sizergh. Trouble
some Malta is quasi-dominion
and Mussolini means to get it before
he's through.