The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-31
Wallace Supporters Must
Dig Deep To Support Him

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those signers.
In Michigan, which casts q
big labor vote in Wayne county
(Detroit), qualification is by I'll.
Ing petitions with signatures o.
from one to four per cent OF
votes cast for secretary OF state
in the last election.
In Wallace's home state OF
Iowa the method is so simple
that as few as two voters can
hold a convention or caucus and
sign a certificate Of nomination.
And in Washington state a con-
vention of only Is can be held
to organize a third party.
Politicians Differ
Politicians differ as to h o W
many popular votes a Wallace
drive may corral, but pretty
well agree he will not capture
any electoral college votes.
In only about three instances
has a third party been credited
with changing the outcome OF a
presidential election - in 1874,
1884 and 1912. The last date was
when Theodore Roosevelt split
the Republican vote with his
Bull Moose ticket and gave the
presidency to Woodrow Wilson.
The last third party ticket as
distinguished from the socialist,
communist, and prohibition la
bells, appeared in the 1886
election. Rep. William Lemke
(R-ND), under a union party
standard, polled 8S2,47 popular
votes, but failed to capture an
electoral vote.
Chairman Reece of the Re-
publican national committee to-
day described Walla e's
peace" crusading entry into
the presidential race as mark
ing the "disintegration" of the
Democratic party.
His counterpart on the Demo
cratic committee, Senator Nc
Grath of Rhode Island, had said
it will "clear the atmosphere in
the coming campaign" Nc
Grath added today that the
Democrats don't expect any
heavy loss of votes over it.
Senator Sparkman told a re-
porter that some of Wallace's
prospective campaign planks
may parallel the platform on
which a Republican nominee
might be running and ne thinks
his party will take pains to point
this out.
Opposes Military Training
AS an example, Sparkman
noted that Wallace had an
nounced opposition to universal
training. The Alabama
senator recalled that Senator
Taft of Ohio, an announced can
didate for the COP presidential
nomination, also has opposed
compulsory military training in
the form in which it has been
proposed in the past.
Sparkrnan observed that Wal
lace said he intends to run on
a "peace" platform, adding
that Taft recently called on the
peace loving element" of the
nation to "speak out against
those who regard war as one
of the various weapons of ma
tional policy in diplomatic ma
neuvering."
Rep. Mccormack of Massa-
house Democratic
whip, contended the Democrat
ic party will be strengthened by
move.
'The votes we may lose," he
told reporter, twill be more
than offset by those voters who
will vote the Democratic ticket
because of Mr.. Wallace's at
tempt to create confusion"
Senator Hawkes. GRIND said
the voters will have the choice
between foreign isms" and
"Americanism" while Mrs. Ed
monia W. Grant, acting admin.
istra ator for the Southern Con-
ference for Huma an welfare,
commented that Wallace will
get "strong support in the
south" in his independent bid.
The former vice president
and secretary of commerce said
selection of a name for his par
ty and national headquarters
will be decided at a meeting in