Evening star., 1948-06-13
Another Republican Dark Horse
Not Interested in the
Second Spot on His
.Porty's Ticket

young nor an old man. He Is 81.
He has grown and broadened physi-
cally and mentally with the years.
He is married and has six chill
dren-one of the reasons he pre-
fers to remain In California, where
he is bringing them. up to be useful
citizens.
When Mr.. Warren took over the
Governors chair in Sacramento,
the country was in the midst Of a
desperate war. California had its
problems. Huge industries had
mushroomed overnight. bringing q
great influx of population. The
Army and the Navy operating in a
major way out Of California ports
to the Far Eastern war theater
Before the war ended, Warren, as
Governor of the State. was host
to the United Nations Conference
in San Francisco,
Progressive, Not Radical
Mr.. Warren has never been a
desperate political partisan. That
is one reason that a small group
of hard-boiled conservative Repub-
lican businessmen has fought him
in the past. He was too popular,
however, and they have had to take
nim-like it or not. The Governor
is progressive, but not radical. He
has tackled the postwar problems
of California with as much vigor
as he did the States war problems.
He is tremendously interested in
getting the States huge new popu-
lation located and the States new
industries continued.
In the opinion of Gov. Warren,
the Pacific area and its problems
are to be the major questions of the
near future. He himself has given
much study both to our own part in
this great area but that which may
be played by Japan and China and
Russia.
California, although it has had but
one elected President of the United
States, has made a number of bids
for presidential nominations. Hiram
johnson in 1920, who ran with
Theodore Roosevelt on the Bull
Moose ticket in 1912, was Califor-
MAS favorite son and more. He
helped to deadlock that convention,
which eventually compromised on
Warren Harding. William Gibbs
McAdoo, Georgian by birth, led a
big California Democratic delega-
ton to the Democratic National
Convention in New York in 1924.
Wooed by Everybody
No other Republican leader has
been wooed more ardently than Gov.
Warren by other candidates for the
presidential nomination. It began
with Senator Taft of Ohio last fall.
The Ohio Senator made it clear he
did not want to step on Mr.. War
ren's toes, but he would be delighted
to have the support Of CALIFORNIA;
big delegation in the Republican
National Convention - after the
delegates have voted for Warren on
a ballot or two. Since then both
Stassen and Dewey have spent time
with the Governor, trying to con-
vince him that he should throw his
support to them. 81
Gov. Warren, however, has re-
ceived them all graciously. If he has
made any commitments-and he in
sists he has not-they are carefully
guarded. He is going his own way
as candidate himself, stirring up
no rancor. His admirers in the
State regard him as the logical
compromise nominee for the Presi-
dent when the time comes" and
they express confidence it will.
One thing Republicans generally
should bear in mind, Gov. Warren
has been as successful in returning
his own great State to the Republi-
can Party-after a long period of
Democratic domination-as has Gov.
Dewey in New York.
zone OF a Series of Sketches on
Presidenfi1I Possibilities