Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Gov. Wills Sees COP Suicide
If 1t Lets Bosses Stop WiIIkie
standing Republican of our times
Wendell Willkie.

STOP WHIkIe
standing Republican of our times
Wendell Willkie.
"Willkie, they buzzed sough
unity on foreign policy long befor.
Pearl Harbor," said Gov. Wills
Therefore, they said, he is too mucf
like Roosevelt. Willkie is too liberal
Why, they added, Willkie isn't !,
Republican at all.
Nov lot of us in Vermont wouls
like to know on what grounds thes'
few discredited mouthpieces of re,
action base their charges that Wen,
dell Willkie is not a Republican. /.
| it because, with a world in flames
Wlllkie spoke out clearly and cou
rageously for national unity wher
other men were silent or timid? L
it because Willkie is world figure
the only one of the Republican can
didates who is known and respected
wherever. men fight for freedom?
Gov. Wills conceded that Mr.. Will
kie is not the only Republican
qualified to be President" He sale
he could think of fine men amonl
his fellow Republican Governor.
who could fill the Office with dis
tinction.
Nevertheless" he said, It think
that Wendell Willkie is the only
Republican certain to beat tn,
strongest Democratic candidate. My
plea is for fair play in our conven.
| ton. If Willkie is given an homes
chance to win the Republican nomi-
nation and loses it. our party will
still be one of which We can be
proud, even though we go down tt
defeat at the polls with lesser
man as candidate.
IF however, he becomes the vic.
tim of smart political manipulation
in stop Willkie drive, with hand
full of bosses dominating the Re-
publican national convention In
1914 as they did in 1920, fear fol
our survival. Such a course, I fear
means suicide for the Republican
Party.
Has Double Strength.
only Willkie packs wallop In
both fists. Roosevelt's right arm is
in a sling labeled domestic short
comings.' In sling, too, is the left
arm of every Republican challenger
except Willkie, and this sling is
labeled No Foreign Policy
mo sings hamper Willkie. Both
arms are free. WILKES left glove i.
stamped Sound Foreign Policy, his
right glove is marked Sound Do
nestle Policy.
Il ask my fellow Republican Gov
errors to complete the splendid jot
they began at Mackinac Island last
September (where the Republican
Postwar Advisory Council adopted 9
resolution pledging international col
Liberation after the war ends.
ask them, backed up by the over
whelming majority of Republican!
everywhere, not to permit discreditee
forces of negation to manipulate oul
choice of a candidate for President
this year.
Il ask the members of the Re.
publican National Committee now
gathering in Chicago for their meet.
ing with our State chairman ane
vice chairman to remember this.
am sure they will"
Meet First Tomorrow.
The first meeting of the nationa
committee members is slated for to-
morrow afternoon, with the chair
men and vice chairmen of the Re.
publican State committees. Tomor
row night, the committee and tn,
State Republican officers will din,
at the Stevens Hotel, where thu
committee meetings are to be held
Representative Halleck of Indiana
the new chairman of the Republican
Congressional Committee, is to max,
the principal speech at the dinner
On Tuesday the National Com
mittee will 60 into session to selec
the date and city for the nationa
convention-now regarded as Ger.
tain to be Chicago. Chairman
Spangler has strongly intimatee
that the convention will be held the
latter part of June, possibly open.
ing June 26.
While none of the Republican
presidential possibilities is expected
to attend the Chicago meeting OF
the committee, several of them will
have representatives there. Mr.
Willkie is not going to Chicago, but
Lamoyne A. Jones, his press score
tary, is already there. Gov. Bricke,
OF Ohio, who has announced his
candidacy for the presidential nom
nation, also will be represented.
The National Committee will be
called upon to adopt the new an
portionment of delegates to the ma.
tlonal convention among the States
territories and the District of Co.
lumbia. The number of delegates
will be slightly more than 1000. il
is said.
Democrats Meet January q.
The members of the national com.
mlttee, 106 in number. will be at the
Chicago meeting or will be repre-.
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