Evening star., 1953-09-30

earlier, as child in Bakers
field. he witnessed a street gun
battle in which Deputy Sheriff
William E. Tibbett, father of
Lawrence Tibbett, the opera bar
itone, was slain by an outlaw.
He said he never felt a sense
of personal satisfaction in cop-
victing a defendant. Yet he was
relentless in going after law
breakers, and inSistent on high
standards of training and per-
formance by police and enforce
ment agencies.
The international Chiefs of
Police made him an active life
member. The United States Flag
Association awarded him its
medal in 1894 for outstanding
work in law enforcement. Later
he became president Of the Ma
tional Association of Attorneys
General.
Stressed Legal Processes.
His association with the courts
became less direct when he was
Governor. but his concern for
legal processes, improvement of
the penal system, and the fight
against rackets, organized gam
bling and general crime never
Jagged.
Years later, in an address at
an American Bar Association
convention he noted "a wide
spread belief that our regular
courts are too slow. too expensive,
too out of touch to do the job"
He linked this widespread belief
to a trend toward establishment
of numerous governmental agen-
cies with quasi-judicial powers.
He warned that such admins
trative activities could de
generate into something akin to
a kangaroo court"
It was Mr.. Warren's success
as a prosecuting attorney that
began to bring him to political
prominence, Coupled with this
was the engaging personality of
the 6-foot-1 Californian who put
smiles and handshakes and mat
ter-of fact speaking in place of
oratorical flights or high pressure
publicity.
He has been described vari-
ously as a middle-of-the-road
candidate and a man who min
gled charm and caution in max
ing well-calculated moves in
winning elections or court cases.
His career indicates he had con-
siderably more than that in re-
naming SO long and so promi-
nently in the national and State
political picture.
Headed State COP.
AS long ago as 1884 he was
Republican State Chairman in
California, and as early as 1886
he headed State delegations to
national nominating conven-
tionS.
His continued achievement in
winning elections in a State
where Democrats normally out
numbered Republicans three to
two in registration gave rise to
some supposition that his Re-
publicanism was at least diluted.
Yet, so great was his ability to
unity" California voters that,
as Governor. he always had a
State Legislature controlled by
Republicans. There was no ques-
ton that he was the Republican
leader in California.
On the national scene his
nomination as vice presidential
candidate in 1943 was hailed by
the internationaliSt branch of
the party and also by the liberal
as distinguished from conserva-
tive wings. Notwithstanding his
encouragement of many domes-
tic policies identified with the
New Deal, he attacked it as
lacking a dominating princi-
Pile"
Urged Strong Foreign Policy.
When he formally opened his
campaign for the presidential
nomination in 1852 he was even
more explicit in declaring war on
corruption and inefficiency in
government and urging a strong
foreign policy.
He wanted the Republican
Party to stand for honesty in
government, bipartisan foreign
policy. support the United Ma
tions, medical care on reasonable
terms. slum clearance, "the right
of every segment of our society
to a measure of security" and a
determination Ito preserve peace
and,.i war should come, to have
effective allies"
He could point to his own rec
ord of having managed a bal
anced budget continuously while
he was Governor, and of having
helped to put through substan-
tlal social welfare, education.
reclamation and fiscal measures.
while keeping. pace with a tre-
mendous growth IN population
Of the State.
In the field of labor relations.
he figured in an early contro-
versy growing out of his prose-
cution of a murder case in 1886.
But in 1851. a poll of labor union
leaders named him as the Re-
publican presidential nominee
who would receive the strongest
support of labor. And on several
occasions in recent years he ex-
pressed dissatisfaction with some
provisions of the Faft-Hartley
Act