Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-08
BEHIND
The. NEWS
BY Paul.
MaIIon

WASHINGTON, April THE
" Dewey people suspected in
advance, Mr.. Willkie might get
as many&as 20 delegates in
WlSconsinA
Republ leaders here con-
coded d 2bad boy GEN
orally fri 1p "a Even the
Brlcksr ca wlth the best
line 1slttD figured at
least cstes, probably
ran fouftE dsDewey, Stas-
sen and MS4Afthur, who we're
not even running, the surprise
was a little more than any one
could adequately explain.
COMMENTS of the leaders
" here naturally we're mostly
jibes at this most ignominous
defeat of modern political his
tory,
InaSmuch as Willkie claimed
he was candidate of the
people against the bosses, the
common rejolnder now IS that
he apparently has more bosses
for him than people.
Rtf the complete sinking Of
- a popular national figure
needs more explanation than
this. -
His reIpark. only half ex-
planned, that one of his 1910
utteranceszwas only campaign
oratory' obviously discouraged
some support.
More important perhaps, he
refused 70 support whomever
is to be nominated by his own
party, and his whole method
suggested, he was at least
equally strong against his Re-
publican opponents as against
Roosevelt,s if not more so.
Even soS all these facts seem
to fall short of. the complete
SiGnificance. of the defeat of a
national figure who made q
speeches Nhrough state in
which no 9ne else was talking,
and then Sgan last.
THE people these days are
i think nsg and talking
prlmarilysabopt the conduct of
the war, syae confusing steps Of
leading ,sYpyld statesmen and
what XIII be aEeace we can get
out Of @ksused situation.
tsxes.sff %lS iutur ,a'G social it,i
secufiy,s3 y fsgf
Thes M3tfy 3has changed
since the kMff6ys of the war
when tifei &ffciAties of apply
Tng even the four freedoms TO
Russia, Poland, et al, were not
yet apparent TO the people.
In short, this is a failure not
alone Of Willkie. but for the
whole thin garment of false
liberalism that his vociferous
left-wing followers in New York
tired TO drape around him.
THEY tried, for instance, 10
Il divide the country into two
camps, saying they were the
internationalist Der ! s. and
every one else was an isola-
ZIONIST.
The people Of the country
just have not divided as di-
rected.
Certainly they have not ex-
pressed themselves for any de-
fined policy in any noticeable
way.
How could they, in view Of
the news from London, Moscow
and all world capitals the last
six months?
nOMESTICALLY. with taxa
~ tion at the breaking point
upon the great middle class Of
people, Willkie demanded the
Roosevelt. recommendations for
great increases he doubled -
whereas Roosevelt's own party
in Congress overwhelmingly re-
Stricted increases 10 a fraction
of what the President asked
This agitation just did not
make sufNient common sense,
or prove3f Efficiently interesting
10 draw nping NATIONAL fol-
! !: !. !.
elect IRE apparent
long Apublicans of
Wisd
suCG Suffer defeat
formers Ninnesota,s ex-
Gov. sta ylN the time he IS
sued his Mthdrawal announce
ment.
4 RISEyin the stock Of Gov.
n BricGfr may ensue. He may
hope 10 ga a portion of the Re-
publican Reorganization group,
although clearly the rank and
file Of thesparty want Dewey
Some Organization people still
oppose the New Yorker on the
ground that he is immature or
not quite regular enough
The moNement 10 smoke him
ont however is now more apt to
fail