Evening star., 1948-06-13
Gov. Warren Hasn't
Compoigned, But
Is Available
By Gould Lincoln

JuSt h SCOic VI yCaAo o6o 'AAS ~~~
publican Party nominated - and
elected-Herbert Hoover, President.
Today another Californian, Gov
Earl Warren, seeks the Republican
presidential nomination. Seeks Is.
perhaps, too strong a term. although
the genial governor has announced
himself a candidate. What he really
did was to make himself "available"
for the presidential nomination. He
has made no active campaign what
ever outside of his own State. For
that matter, his mere announced
candidacy assured him California's
So delegates in the Republican Ma
tional Convention.
The California Governor occupies
a strategic position as the pre-
convention campaign draws to- a
close. He is an outstanding Repub-
lican Governor and the only presi-
Dental candidate from the great
West. AS a candidate for President
he would assure the COP victory in
the key state of California-which
turned the tables in 1915 and
brought Woodrow Wilson home a
victor after the election of Charles
Evans Hughes had been conceded"
Doesn't Want Vice Presidency
The grip which Gov. Warren has
on the State of California is amaz-
ing. Six years ago he was its At
torney General. The then Demo-
cratic Gov. Culburt Olson, became
Mr.. Warren's target, and when the
shooting was over, Mr.. Warren had
been elected Governor by 100000
votes. 1t was major political per-
Torrance in a State that for 10
years had been rolling up huge
Democratic majorities. With a war
on-against Japan and Germany
Mr.. Warren nevertheless broke the
hold of the Democratic administra-
ton. He did it by hard campaign
ing and the conviction he had Gre
ated in the California mind that he
was both honest and efficient.
No wonder that Warren was the
choice of Gov. Dewey of New York,
in 1914, to run as a candidate for
Vice President. No wonder that to-
day any one of the leading candi-
dates for the Republican presiden-
tial nomination would be delighted
to have Mr.. Warren's company on
the party's national ticket. But Mr..
Warren frankly says he is not in
terested in becoming a vice presi-
Dental nominee. He would rather
stay as Governor of his State for
another two years. Or perhaps he
would prefer to enter Republican
Presidents cabinet as Attorney
General or Secretary of the Interior.
In 1916, when Mr.. Warren was Up
for denomination, he won both the
Republican and Democratic nomi-
nations for Governor. It's an old
California habit for candidates to
run in both the major party pri-
maries-and if there is third-party
primary they sometimes run in that,
too. But for a Republican to win a
Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor was decidedly out of the usual.
1t is indicative, however, of the vast
popularity of the man.
Would Make Strong Race
No slightest doubt exists that Mr..
Warren would prove strong runner
in the presidential campaign next
fall. The great hurdle, for him, is
winning a Republican nomination
in June. His chance, like that Of
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan
and of Speaker Martin of the House,
seems to rest on a definitely dead
locked Republican National Con-
vention. If and when it becomes
apparent that Gov. Dewey of New
York, Senator Taft Of Ohio and
Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota
cannot make the grade, the hour Of
the so-called dark-horse candidates
will have arrived.