Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1940 — Page 3

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( TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1940

~~ BEITPRO OR CON,

T'S WILLKIE WHO

Hoosier’s Unorthodox Tactics Have Conven-|

~ DOMINATES SCENE

tion in an Uproar—They Haven't the Slightest Idea of What Comes Next.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Staff Writer

PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—This Republican conven-||

tion was in a state of mind today where it might succumb

to a blitzkrieg—and that would be Wendell L.

Indiana delegate-charmer.

Or—it might tie itself in a series of knots and dead-.

locks from which anybody might emerge, maybe even IHerbert Hoover, perhaps someone whose picture beams from no posters, whose buttons are in no wrinkled seersucker lapels,

- Whose name is rarely on any lips. Ee The Willkie strategy, to borrow military sists of quick pocketing maneuvers, like those of the Nazis

terms, con-

in cutting between armes, surrounding them, and forcing

~their surrender. The utility

man is surrounding handfuls

of delegates here and there, luring them with his persuasive line of talk away from their designated political straw-bosses, and gradually increasing his delegate strength.

The rumors of delegate desertions flash like poison darts into other camps and undermine morale. Little fifth

columns are set up.

The next move is the psychological smash, like the descent of tne German armies upon the French lines in full fury. This depends for its effectiveness upon. the yearning of every delegate to get on the bandwagon before it is too late, so that when the little spoils are divided later he can hold out his hands with some justification.

‘Don’t Wait Too Late!’

The Willkie sirin cry now is: “Don’t wait too late.” ‘While Mr. Willkie, who is his own manager and his own publicity staff, talks to delegation after delegation, his managers dangle the latest tro- . phies, Today they hoped to add another to their first big prize, who was Governor Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut. ; The rumor spread that none other t the 6-foot-4 keyunoter, the 33-year-old Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, was ready to declare himself for Mr. Willkie, and this would have its effect. ¥or not only is Governor Stasssn regarde as a level-headed young man, with a successful record as Governor of a large state, a fellow given to no snap judgements or emotional sprees, but he also is looked upon as a spokesman for the Western Iarm counfry. Mr. Willkie’s charm has been turned upon Western delegations, and he has collected some converts here and there, but generally there is a disposition to hold back. Many delegates from that section are afraid of his utility connection, while some are just parcy men enough to complain that he was until recently a Democrat. i A sizable group of Western Congressmen are - trying to organize a “Stop Willkie” drive. The Willkie forces would like to have Governcr Stassen’s open support to offset this. The power of the Willkie candidacy is no better illustrated then in the Western congressional revolt. For the 50 or so House members loosely banded together in the aatiWillkie movement, did not inention the candidate by name—thoughn they said privately that they meant him _—and only a few were willing’ to “sign their names.

He May Head the Ticket

After all, he may be the nead of | the ticket when they run Ior re-|

election this November. They do not bring into the open the charge that they use privately in ialking against the Willkie candidacy — the charge that he is the favorite of Eastern financial interests. The obvious strategy of the antiWillkie forces is to unite behind one

candidate, but the first definite step| W. Gillie (R. Ind.) were among the

in this direction remains to be made. The candidate usually mentioned in this connection is Senator Taft of Ohio. But eandidates are loath to eliminate themselvés from the picture. The higgest single block of votes other than those of Senator Taft belongs, for the moment at least, to Thomas E. Dewey of New York. While the Willkie forces are reported to have made inroads on his delegates, Mr. Dewey still has a sizable following, and if he shows up well on the first ballot he certainly will hang on for a while. Delegates Independent-Minded

This convention lacks the direction familiar in the past, of three or four big leaders. It consists also of rather independent-minded delegates, far more -than a majority of them uninstructed, and the supposed state bosses find themselves unable to keem their delegations in line. The Pennsylvania delegation often in the past has pointed the way to the bandwagon. But Joseph N. Pew, the oil magnate who aspires to political power, seems to lack the whip hand of former Pennsylvania posses. A ‘Willkie faction, reputedly numbering 18 to 20, is straining at the leash, with Mr. Pew reported to be inclined against the Hoosier.

Mr. Pew has lavished millions on |

the Republican Party in his own state ow nationally. The late Andrew W. Mellon did the same. "And there was a time when Mr. Mellon, merely by rising to his feet and saying hardly above a Whisper. «I thing Pennsylvania should support Herbert Hoover,” swung the 1928 Republican convention at Kansas City into paeans of : «California, here I come! Mr. Hoover May Coine Back Mr. Pew may conceivably swing the convention x 1940 But it doesn’t seem that way now. Republicans who want to stop Mr. -willkie are depending upon a voice rather than upon strategy. 1t is the voice of Herbert Hoover himself. - . They count on his speech tonight to bring order out of confusion, to point the way. He stirred them ears ago. fo nile the stop-Willkie delegates hope for guidance, Mr. Hoover's lieutenants hope for Mr. Hoover. It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the former Presi= dent may come back. ro Ie

FAVORITE SON SEEKS 28 VOTES

Willkie Breakfasts With Hoosiers; Watson, Lyons Reported Holdouts. (Continued from Page One)

was held by Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Willkie manager, with former Governor James P. Goodrich, 10th District delegate and long one of the powerful figures in the Indiana G. O. P. Two Listed in Opposition Reports were current that the principal opposition to the plan of Imaking Mr. Willkie of Elwood

and New York the 100 per cent favolite

[son comes from former Senator ‘James E. Watson and Robert Lyons,

Indianapolis.

| The two are close allies and while {both are still sticking with the \rapidly dwindling hopes of Thomas E. Dewey, the Senator has said he would be glad to support a TaftDewey ticket. Mr. Lyons. is a Twelfth district delegate and Senator Watson a delegate-at-large. Considerable consternation was caused. yesterday afternoon when a tabloid paper here published the following: “Glenn Hillis, candidate for Governor in Indiana, and Raymond Willis, running for U. S. Senator from there, made the statement at least three times today that if Willkie is nominated, Indiana cannot be delivered to the Republicans in November.” Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt of the Indiana G. O. P. denied that either candidate had said any such thing and later Mr. Hillis did likewise.

Raise Wall Street Cry

Earlier in the day the Robert A. Taft forces capitalized on an antiWillkie post card sent out by Samuel E. Boys, Plymouth, co-delegate with Rep. Halleck from the Second district. Mimeographed sheets were put out introducing the text of the Boys’ car das follows: “Fed up with the avalanche of Wall Street propaganda and high-pressure methods, Samuel E. Boys, Plymouth, Ind., codelegate with Charles’ A. Halleck, campaign manager for Wendell L. Willkie, today issued a statement against the Willkie candidacy.” Another Indiana angle was given the anti-Willkie forces when Reps. | Forest Harness (R. Ind.) and George

[Congressmen signing the petition | directed against the Willkie tarrif stand without naming the candidate. Mr. Willkie repeatedly has expressed himself in favor of the principle of the Hull reciprocal trace agreements. .

Willkie, the|

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Staff Writer

PHILADELPHIA, June 25. — “That man speaks our language.” A half-dozen delegates, elbowing

their way through a packed cor- | ridor of the Benjamin Franklin | Hotel, halt to catch their breath. | For 15 minutes ‘they have’ fired questions at Wendell Willkie. Tough questions, not vague stum- | blings; many of them questions inspired by President-makers who want none of him. What are you going to do about L war? {| Aren't you against TVA? | Why did you vote for Roosevelt | in 1932? Do you favor the New Deal | rpciprocal trade treaties? The big-chested man with the | heavy black hair has given back the answers as fast as questions were thrown at him; Direct answers, not tongue-in-cheek talk. Delegates, .used to evasions on questions as pointed as these, like tt. That's the story of Wendell Willkie in Philadelphia. He talks their language.

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THOUSANDS POURED IN and out of. those corridors outside the small Willkie suite yesterday. At. one time the mass of people trying to get to him became so dense that Rep. Bruce Barton (R. N. Y.) had to climb to a table and try to . direct the traffic of delegates. Politicians went back to Theodore Roosevelt for comparison to a convention reception such as this. Delegates from one state after another shook his hand and conferred with him—Alabama, Tennessee, Maine, West Virginia, North Carolina, Connecticutt, New Jersey, Iowa, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Oklahoma, the Philippines. “Why say,” the big man would begin, “I'm glad you asked me that question—” : Trade treaties? “Taft, Blaine and McKinley, all Republicans, favored the reciprocal tariff prin-

IT'S SHOCKING

Democrats Claim

‘Right to G. O. P.

CHICAGO, June 25 U. P).— This will shock Republican orators at the Philadelphia convention, but University of Chicago lexicographers swear it's true: The term “Grand Old Party”’— G. O. P——reaiuly belongs to the Democrats by prior claim.

Researchers for a new dictionary of American English asserted today that the term was used first in 1879 by Senato enjamin H. Hill, Georgia Democrat, in eulogizing “Democrats of the North.” The Republicans picked it up nine years later.

BOREALIS BLAMED FOR WIRE INTERRUPTIONS

“He Talks the Pe ~~ Who Refu

BOSTON, June 25 (U. P.).—Communication lines throughout: New England were partially disrupted) today by what technicians of West-, ern Union, Postal Telegraph and | the American Telephone & Telegraph companies described as “earth disturbances.” The disturbances were generally reported at 7:10 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) and continued more than an| hour. ' Severest interruptions to lines operated by these companies were |in central and western Massachus-| .etts, particularly in the Springfield (area, but the disturbances occurred! at various other points in the six | states. | Telephone company employees dejscribed the disturbances as caused by the Aurora borealis and said they {were similar to those throughout the {United States in a cosmic electrical storm in March. All companies said they were able |to maintain service but that “repeats” were necessary because of garbled messages.

HIT BY TRUCK, KILLED VALPARAISO, Ind. June 25 (U. {P.).—An unidentified man, about 0, was killed last night when hit [by a truck on U. S. Highway 30 near here. ‘

Alf Swings the

home state amid group of Iowa convention. :

Kansas Banner N Ga

Times-Acma Teleooio.

Alf M. Landon, 1936 Presidential candidate, grasps banner of his

"THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ —— ople’s Language’ — That's Willkie ses to Put His Tongue in His Cheek

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Wendell Willkie, dark-horse candidate for the G. O.P. Presidential nomination, looks over a booster sign with William Harman (left), local chairman of the Willkie-for-President committee.

PLANK OFFERED TOREPUBLICANS

Raps New Deal Defense and Foreign Policies; Wagner Act Changes Sought.

PHILADELPHIA, June 25-(U. P.). —An “America first” plank, vigorously denouncing New Deal defense and foreign policies, was offered to

‘| the Republican Resolutions Com-

mittee today as a substitute for the “aid-to-oppressed-peoples” proposal already tentatively in the platform. Hot debate over the foreign policy plank put the brakes on efforts to complete the platform today. , The substitute, it was learned, accused the Roosevelt Administration of spending billions for the Army and Navy in the last seven years with nothing to show for it. It was reported that it would put the Republican Party on record in favor of strict isolationism. It charges Democrats with having “weakened morale” and destroyed defense efforts by “viciously attacking” business and industry. “Zero Hour Is Rere”

“The zero hour is here,” the proposal was understood to read at one

ciple- There's no world trade now, and Hitler has made this question moot, but after this is all over we're going to have to have larger trade areas if we maintain our living standard without deficit financing. The way to do it is through Rgjpoments”

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SOCIALIZED MEDICINE? Bluntly—I'm against it.” War? “If you elect me President, you've got to tell me to go to war, and that’s the only. way youll get there. The President - should be a deterrent against war.” . That 1932 vote -for Roosevelt?

MARTIN CALLS FOR VIGILANCE

Check Drift to Absolutism

At Home and Strengthen Defenses, He Pleads.

PHILADELPHIA, June 25 (U.P). —Joseph W. Martin took office today as permanent chairman of the 1940 Republican national convention and summoned his party to check the drift toward absolutism at home and strengthen American defenses against threats to her liberty from abroad.

Mr. Martin, Republican leader of the House, declared that:

“Eyes that are clear, hearts. that are fearless, minds that are free must maintain our ideals of liberty in the midst of world chaos and confusion.”

New Deal Trend Denounced

He denounced a seven-year trend under. the New Deal ‘toward oneman government and national bankruptcy” and warned that “personal liberty, equal rights, equal justice, constitutional government — these are in danger of being extinguished.” “This convention,” he said, “will nominate a president to lead America out of the wilderness of economic chaos. We are here to rally all patriots in a crusade for Americanism.” ! “We must see to it,” he said, “that our national reason is not warped and befuddled by political propaganda, "pleas for power, bureau-

section or class. This is no time to be stampeded into hasty decisions.

Fears Economic Betrayal

“We must preserve our country from the schemes and treachery of those unsympathetic to our constitutional republic and who would destroy it. } “Destruction of our Constitution, our Government and our freedom can be brought about, unless we are vigilant. by economic betrayal just as readily as by military betrayal.”

“At first the New Deal appeared to be a great liberal crusade—but it hadn't gone far before it became a grab for power.” Standing hour after hour meeting those who want to see what he looks like, how he talks and what he stands for, Willkie runs a big hand through his hair, ‘pours water from a pitcher, drains the glass, tells, them: Cy “I want you to li pe as I am. If you're for me, all@#@ht, and if not, all right. But don’t believe any of the yarns some of these jittery people ‘are handing out.” 2 ” ” :

one repm jammed with people from wall to wall; as he finishes

he moves to an adjoining room and meets another group. The first room is emptied, filled again, and soon he moves back here. The thousands who see him soon circulate the personal messages he has given them; quote his answers to their questions. Willkie talk dominates all talk here. His pictures are everywhere and banners hail his name. A delegate pledged to an opposing candidate sent his suit to be cleaned.

It came back with a Willkie

THE CANDIDATE TALKS to

button: on the lapel. .

Anti-Willkie Bloc Swings to

Taft as the Man to Support

(Continued from Page One)

except Governor Stassen were elected permanent officers, Mr. Stassen apbointed Harrison Spangler of Iowa, Mrs. Helen Warren of Minnesota, and Arch N. Bobbitt of Indiana as a committee to escort Mr. Martin to the platform. Tonight former President Herbert C. Hoover delivers a speech which may pull. the plug on all the other contestants and give the nomination again to the man from California. The Hoover boom. is small but real. Good news for Mr. Taft and bad news for Mr, Willkie came from Pennsylvania, whose organization leaders privately indicated that they might soon desert Gov. Arthur H. James a “favorite son,” in an effort to throw the nominafion to the Senator from Ohio. The strategy would be dictated by a desire to prevent Mr. Willkie's nomination. The organization controls about 55 of the state's 72 votes and Mr. Willkie is believed to have about 16 of the others.

Colorado May Turn to Willkie

Gov, Ralph L. Carr of Colorado, announced that he would second Mr. Willkie’s nomination. Colorado’s 12 votes, which is wuninstructed but generally regarded as divided among Mr. Taft, Mr. Dewey and Senator ‘Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, are expected now to go

Democrat until 1938.

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uel E. Boyd, Plymouth, Ind. publisher, a member of the state’s delegation, took a pot shot at Mr. Willkie with the charge that he was a

The credentials committee was| in session all night, hearing chal-| lenges against various delegations the South. It refused to seat ‘Tieless Joe” Tolbert, 74, National Committeeman from South Carolina, who every convention since

Governor Stassen of. Minnesota, one of the few Republicans in publife who honestly can say he has no chance for this nomination, keynoted the convention into battle with the Roosevelt Administration last night. Mr. Stassen, 33, is too young by two years to be

Delegates received his address with alternate periods of cheering and silence and it failed to provoke a parade which is the final gesture of appreciation from : a political convention audience. But Mr. Stassen, after a prelude of assurance that the nation would support the Roosevelt Administration on a national unity basis so long as it remained in office, called on Republicans to turn the New Deal out

n, 8 He denounced President Roosevelt's John W, Haigis started a Hoover| ment service for the nation's young |

|movement in "the Massachusetts ; ; cratic blundering or. selfishness of | men and seemed to favor, instead, Mr. Roosevelt: had developed his |

ping. “America must declare herself.” ’ It went on to say that no steps ought to be taken that might impair our defense. On domestic issues the drafting committee decided that the Wagner Act should be changed—but did not specify how—and thus went beyond the labor subcommittee report which merely ¢alled for “more equitable” administration of the law.

Debate Farm Plank Wording

The agriculture plank, pledging party efforts to restore farm prices to parity but in the meantime to continue Federal subsidies for soil conservation, was mot put in final shape "ecause of differences over wording. Bidding for return of the Negro vote, historically Republican but pro-Roosevelt in 1936, the. tentative platform pledges the party to work for their economic, social and political equality. including repeal of the poll tax in eight Southern states and passage of a Federal antilynching law. The reciprocal trade plank may cause a dispute in the full committee between advocates of high tariffs and supporters of the reciprocity principie. The subcommittee compromise condemns New Deal administration of the law, and proposes requiring Congressional approval of all treaties.

ing in vocational schools and in industry and moral training in churches, schools and homes. Compulsory training as suggested by Mr. Roosevelt, he‘ said, was ‘not the American way.” : Mr. Stassen condemned the Administration for failure to prepare the nation for national defense, charging that: “Our leaders have been jauntily knocking, chips. off shoulders without. preparing our Army and Navy. $

‘Big Noise and Little Stick’

“For a long time our foreign policy has been a policy of big noise and little stick—and even that little stick on order. We need again; and how we need again, a calm, resolute voice and a big stick.” Delegates leaped up cheering, when he proposed that Federal payrolls be purged of all those supporting “Naziism, Fascism or Communism.” 4 His language seemed to imply a desire for an embargo against ship-

war to Italy, Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. He charged that

Jelegation; aphouncing Lie the some kind of military training un- energy to realization of an “unormer President wou ave Nive ger Army officers, technical train-' American desire” for a. third term.

to seven second ballot votes after a courtesy vote for Mr, Martin on the first. Mr. Willkie still appears strong . with this delegation. with claims of up to 25 second or third ballot votes. The Willkies supporters claimed they: were boring into strength in the Illinois delegation and ‘ Rep. Bruce Barton, of New York, who will second Mr. Willkie, said New York would give him

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SESSION KEYED HIGH WITH SONG

Convention Cheers Mightily Democratic Greatness of ‘Ballad for Americans.’

By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—Even’ the most. hard-boiled veterans of: political conventions will tell you: that they always experience a! curiously heady and blood-tingling

thrill when thousands of human beings, simultaneously stirred,’ jump to their feet and cheer their heads off. |. : Such occasions normally occur: when a speaker says something which peculiarly. satisfies or excites his hearers. : But last night, the Republican: Party’s 2000 delegates and alter= nates, and the convention’s 15,000 guests, staged a spontaneous dems: onstration that had nothing to do’ with politics or speeches or candie dates. : For nearly 60 seconds, and that i¥ a long time in the electric atmo+' sphere. of a great convention, the: thousands in Philadelphia’s vast aus ditorium stood and cheered and ap<: plauded a song. : Lo - But is was small wonder, for the song was “Ballad for Americans,” as stirring in its exultant proclamae= tion of the nation’s democratia greatness as the most inspiringly: patriotic speech could be. ~ = “Ballad for Americans,” written by Earl Robinson of Washington and John Latouche of Virginia, was: a sensational song hit before the: Republican committee on arranges ments thought of presenting it at: the Philadelphia convention. ; But it had never been sung before: so large an audience under a single : roof before, and never under condie tions ‘which served so well to ace: cent the meaning of its chants and + the simple pervasiveness of its minor - melody. - . :

JR. C. OF C. TO HEAR HUNTER

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