Evening star., 1944-03-26

eAsess wv ~SWOJ Wdo ltOb a
date" he said. TT was a draft
movement. 1t still is draft move
ment. The Republicans are con-
vinced that Gov. Dewey is the only
man they can nominate who can
win and beat the 221 bureaus in
Washington"
Senator Gettlemap is serving his
fifth term in the State Senate. He
headed the fight for Borah delegates
in 1886, which wound up with 81
Borah delegates to the national con-
vention that year.
While no one has come into the
State to make speeches for Gov.
Dewey, he said that job is being
attended to by the Dewey delegates
themselves, of whom Secretary of
State Fred Zimmerman, former
Governor, Is one. There is no gen.
eral Dewey headquarters in Wis
consin, and according to Senator
Gettleman, no money is being sent
into the State for a Dewey cam
|paign and little is being spent.
Money" said Senator Gettleman,
won't win the campaign this time. "
Ball Backs Stassen.
In answer to a question whether
money for Gov. Dewey was coming
from New York, he replied:
If any one is spending money
from New York in Wisconsin for
delegates it Is not being spent for
Dewey"
The Willkie and Stassen cam
paigns apparently are being we'll
financed. The Macarthur campaign
is being conducted on a purely VOL
untary basis. Speakers who have
come into the State fol Comdr.
Stassen include Senator Ball, Repre-
sentative Mas and Gov. Thye, all
of Minnesota.
The Willkie campaign In Wiscon-
sin has been well organized. Start
ing In Richland Center, the candi-
date has gone up and down and
across the State, making three and
four and even five speeches a day.
He and his party have travelled
almost entirely by automobile. with
seven or eight cars in the caravan.
Mr.. Willkie has been well received
wherever he has gone. Good crowds
have turned out to see and hear him.
They have listened attentively-but
have applauded comparatively little.
But Wisconsin audiences at political
rallies usually are critical rather
than tempestuously enthusiastic.
Speaks Earnestly.
He speaks simply, and frequently
in the vernacular, but always earn
estly. Usually before he has COM
pleted a speech he turns on the
evangelitic technique, with his ar
dent plea, Help me, help me-" He
speaks as crusader for the liberal
ization OF the Republican party and
for world collaboration by the
United States. Part of the time he
spends lambasting the ultraconser-
vative and isolationist groups in the
Republican party-which he is out
to convert to his way of thinking
II they do not hit the sawdust trail
then, he makes it clear, he wants
none Of them. And part of the time
he assails the New Deal administra-
ton, not only for its acts but be-
cause. as he says, it has been toe
long in power and has become
cynical"
Mr.. Willkie has not hesitated to
call on the Wisconsin Progressives
and Wisconsin Democrats to 60 into
the Republican primary on election
day and help elect Willkie delegates.
They are at liberty to do so under
the law. The Progressives have no
national ticket of their own, and in
the Democratic primary the dele
gates are pro-Roosevelt.
There are two groups in the Pro-
gressive party-one more interna-
tionally minded, under the leader
ship of William T. Evjue. editor of
the Madison Capital Times, and the
other the La Toilette group. The La
Follettes have lined up with the
isolationists ever since the days of
old Battling Bob" La Toilette. It
Is conceivable that the votes of the
two groups will offset each other if
they go into the Republican
primary.
The Progressive Party organiza-
ton has recommended that the Pro-
gressive voters tend to their own
knitting on election day and remain
out Of either primary Mr.. Evjue,
IN an editorial, has suggested to
the Progressives that the thing to
do is to vote for Willkie delegates,
as an insurance against isolationism