Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-05

or whether traditional Jeffersonian
principles shall be restored.
The Republicans are united on
domestic issues but they are divided
on the extent to which a postwar
program shall approximate the in
ternationalism of Woodrow Wilson's
day. The so-called "isolationists"
who have been somewhat anethet-
lied by the war will revive their OPP
position to "entanglements" abroad
and revert to the 1920 position unless
the international elements in the
party can win the upper hand.
The fight was renewed recently
because of the proposal of the Mid
western Republicans to name man
who was prominent as an isolation
list before Pearl Harbor. This
aroused the opposition Of the Willkie
Republicans and is believed to have
resulted in the withdrawal OF the
name of the candidate in question
for the Craftsmanship.
HOLSTER Has Support.
Ordinarily the picking of a ma
tional chairman has little to do with
issues and usually it is a matter
that Is based on organizing ability
and familiarity with local political
situations. If compromise candi-
date has been chosen, his previ-
Gus stand on public questions will
not have been sufficiently con-
spicuous to hail him as a faction
alist.
One name being mentioned-that
OF former Representative John
HOLSTER Of Ohio-received wide
support. But his business affairs
were said to prevent him from de-
voting full time to the job and the
task certainly requires 100 per cent
of party chairman's time, especial
ly as the minority party has an up
hill road to travel.
Mr.. HOLSTER was one of the aides
who journeyed with Wendell Will
kie in 1910 and yet he was also one
of the managers Of Senator Taft's
pre-convention campaign. He is
popular in Congress and with the
press and would make a successful
chairman.
But who wants to take the post
OF national chairman in the Repub-
lican party if the feud between the
iSolationists and the international
co-operationists is to be carried on
with the same intensity that it has
before And what chances are there
for success in 1912 if the Republican
isolationists are going to drive not
only Mr.. Willkie but his immense
following of independent voters
away from the Republican party?
The Jeffersonian movement in the
Democratic party will make a bid
for the support Of these independ-
ents and the Democratic party
would win signal victory in 1914
If a Senator Byrd of Virginia, for
instance, were named to head the
ticket and an isolatlonist were run
ming on the Republican ticket.
1t Is widely believed that Mr..
Willkie lost the election last time
because hundreds Of thousands of
Independents who had absolutely
no use for the New Deal were afraid
that Mr.. Willkie would surrender
to the isolationiSt wing Of the Re-
publican party on foreign policy if
elected and that the whole future OF
the Allied cause might be imperilled.
the election how wrong were those
who failed to understand his in
ternational views, but there has
been no mistake about the con-
scientious adherence of many Re-
publican groups and leaders to the
1920 Republican doctrine.
1t may be, OF course, That When
the troops come home again many
of them will be as isolationist and
anti-foreign as they were after the
last war, and the isolationists may
prove to be the more successful vote
getters, but at the moment the
Gallup polls indicate that ma
jority of both parties seems to favor
strong international organization
to Keep the peace,
That is why the independent Re-
publicanS are insisting that foreign
policy for the postwar period shall
follow the international rather than
the nationaliStic point OF view.
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