Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1940 — Page 3
. own platform in some particulars, though the official docu-|{ probably won’t have to follow
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C 0. P PLATFORM IS UP TO- NOMI
Candidate will Have to Write His Own Ticket
In Some Particulars Because Official ‘Document Is Purposely Vague.
By THOMAS
L. STOKES
Times Staff Writer
PHILADELPHIA, June
27.—Analysis of the : Repub:
lican. Platform leads to two conclusions.
- One is that President Roosevelt’ s imprint is strong],
pon the document.
- The other is that the Republican nominee will have ‘to put his own imprint on it, which is-to say he must interpret | and explain its. many vague passages. :
-
The candidate, in fact, will virtually have to write his
ment is so generalized that he
the course of Alfred M. Landon in 1936.
In that year, after adoption
“of the platform and before
‘an
his nomination, Mr. Landon told the convention in a frank message that he would amend the platform on three points as a candidate. As for the Roosevelt#éimprint, the platform bears proof he Presi«dent has pulled ¢ publican ‘Party along with him in some major
domestic policies, while he has divided the party into two camps
on. foreign policy—as is manifest in|
‘the compromise between isolationists and those who would take a more direct part in European affairs.
Broad Gesture to Labor
Domestically, in numerous com-=-promises with the New Deal—and in some. significant omissions—it is evident that the party is making broad gestures to various powesful economic groups, including labor. It seems to have its eye cocked on John L. Lewis, C. 1. O. chieftain, over whom the platform. committee hung with honeyed words when he appeared here a few days ago. To woo’ back the farmers, once the party’s backbone in the Middle West, the platform “promises ' to continue present benefits until it ean substitute its own, program— Which is not greatly modified from the New Deal's. : To labor it offers an olive branch by omitting prickly and objectionable particulars. Republicans in ' Congress. have been demanding certain specific amendments to the National Labor Relations Act. Most of the House Republicans supported the Smith Bill providing somewhat drastic reyisions. The platform-makers skated around this troublesome obatacle by merely asking that the act be amended “in fairness to employers and all groups of employees so as to provide true freedom for, and orderliness in self-organization and collective bargaining”—with no details,
Wage-Hour Act Not Mentioned
This was designed to satisfy industry; to satisfy the American Federation of Labor, which has sponsored amendments to remove what it calls pro-C. I. O. discrimination by the labor board; and, by its generalities, to avoid offending ‘the C. I. O. House Republicans also have sought, along with Southern Demo~crats, to amend the Wage-Hour Act in important . particulars, but this statute is no{ even mentioned in the platform.
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Four years ago wage-hour legislation was a subject of great controversy among Republicans, On the eve of the Republican convention of 1936. the Supreme Court held that states had no power to pass minimum-wage laws for women. - President Roosevelt and New Dealers already had started their campaign against the Supreme Court because of its rulings in the field of economic and social legislation. The court’s minimum-wage decision, arousing public resentment, helped this along.
For Extending Social Security :
Republican platform - makers wrangled over the problem and came out with a plank urging state laws and interstate compacts' to achieve wage-and-hour regulation. It could be done within the Constitution as it stood, the platform said. This did not satisfy Mr. Landon, who declared in his message to the convention .that he would advocate in his campaign a constitutional amendment empowering the states to enact such laws. In the social-security field Republicans now propose to extend old-age benefits, without saying
TAFT MANAGERS CLAIM VICTORY
Reaping Benefits of ‘Siege Against Willkie, Ohio Bloc Contends.
By NED BROOKS Times Staff Writer ‘ PHILADELPHIA, June 27.—Senator Robert A. Taft's campaign managers today mapped strategy which they said would win the Ohioan’s nomination for the Presidency not later than the fifth ballot. Jubilant over their strides of the last 24 hours, the Taft generals decided at a midnight conference to limit the Senator’s first and secondallot votes to delegates who have been under the Taft banner since the start and can be counted on to stick to the finish.
Taft headquarters that their votes wil be available | when needed are being told to hold their fire for the third and ‘succeeding ballots—if the woting goes beyond three roll calls. By this strategy, the Taft board
of a gain on each pallot—the formula for a bandwagon movement. "The Senator’s “prime No. 1” vote —his first-ballot strength—was estimated by his managers at between 250 and 280. They said they were content to have Thomas E. Dewey take first-ballot leadership. “The New Yorker's vote was expected to be between 320 and 350. The. several-sided siege against Wendell L. Willkie, they said, was proving successful—and the plodding, unspectacular Ohioan was reaping the benefits. :
BANK BANDITS COW 11 TO GET $10,000
RIEGELSVILLE, Pa., June 27 (U. P.)—Armed with machine guns, four bandits herded six employces and five customers into a side room of the First National Bank here at noon today and escaped with between $10,000 and $15,000 from: the teller’s cage. -
how far, and to expand unemployment compensation to cover groups and classes not now included. This puts them alongside the New Deal. Four years: ago Republicans demanded outright repeal of the re-ciprocal-tariff law, Though most Republicans in Congress voted for such repeal recently, the platform does not ask it. Instead it proposes congressional approval of trade agreements, which, while it would probably kill the system by indirection, at least retains the principle. While supporting the SEC and security regulation in general, the platform vaguely suggests modification in the law and in SEC regulation—an overture to business and finance, but generalized lest progressive elements be frightened. In its preamble and throughout its specific planks, the platform condemns the New Deal on many grounds, but it asks repeal of existing statutes only in two particulars, the so-called Thomas inflation amendment granting the President power to issue greenbacks—which Mr. Roosevelt has never used—and the silver purchase act of 1934. Where it asks for modification of New Deal acts, it omits “specifica~ tions.
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MEETINGS TODAY pu lemocratie State Convention, Coliseum,
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MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)
Reserve Officers’ Association,
Edward Strazewski 46. of Indian Hs; Giarahells Brewer. 37, State Schl or
De William Creviston, 56, of 1134 Wooliawn: ORE! SET a3" of adi forsee TOS! Helen Guedel, 23, of 349 E. Morr 1 Mary | 0
BIRTHS
Girls
Charles, Joyce Antle, at Coleman. Michael, Joyce Dugan, at Coleman. Louis, elma Shank, at City. Charles, Dorothy | Crawley, Yt 2507 W. James, Nevada Davis, at 1309 English.
Steadman, Bernice Fe y William, Willa Monroe. at, 2 thoi ” Frank,
onroe, at Met! Dorothy Sweeney, at 383% Hoy
. DEATHS Donald Rhodes, 1, a Riley. otitis media. Belle | Meyers, 6 Layman, sardio LEvereti Barnes, 66, at Methodist, myo- | pneumonia Jones, 74, at 1042 N. Holmes, lobar 61, at 1210 Pickwich
Gilbert: ‘Hurty, Place, coronary thrombosis. i : Or, 86, at 520 E. Vermont,
Mary Tayl or, cho-pne _ Missouri Gibbens, Drive. cardio vascular re ahs Svora, 49, at St. Vinkent’s, coronary acclus Miller, I, at Central Indiana, cerebral hemorrhag Mary at Marott Hotel,
Rimberlin, | 4 8% Vincent's,
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Delegates who have informed the|
decided, the Ohioan will be assured |
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the Republican Convention.
It's Willkie vs. Tofi-Dewey As G. O.P. Nears First Ballot
(Continued from Page One)
perience in the -Senate which equipped him for the Presidency.
The convention pounded through
a steady routine of nomination oratory which was expected to continue until around 3 p. m. After the big Dewey, Taft and Willkie demonstrations of last night those today were mild. Nider of Iowa got a one-minute send-off. Senater Arthur H. Vandenberg- of Michigan was cheered for eight minutes but his delegates
'—on his: instructions—did not
parade. Senator Taft’s headquarters reported that the lineup on the first ballot would be something like: tivespessevensess 320 voles ...240 votes . .150 votes
Next up were Senator H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, Senator Charles L. McNary Oregon, James, and Governor Harlan J. Bushfield of South Dakota. The ‘three fighting leaders and Frank E. Gannett were placed in nomination last night in some five hours of oratory salted with frenzied demonstrations and fisticuffs on the convention floor: and a cry of “foul” from Taft leaders,
Propese Third Term Ban
The Republicans plunged into the oratorical deluge of nominating and seconding speeches after adopting by acclamation a preparedness and keep-out-war platform that ripped the New Deal, but in no instance mentioned the Democratic Party.. This avoidance is part of the Republican plan tor interest antiRoosevelt Democrats in the Republican Presidential nominee. The platform proposed repeal of no major New Deal legislation, but called for general chance in administrative methods and proposed a Constitutional amendment to forbid ‘a third Presidential term. The candidate who runs on this platform will be committed, if he wins, against ever seeking a third election to the Presidency. The wide open contest features stop-Dewey and stop-Willkie movements desperately seeking to establish effective organization in maneuvers which seem to boost the chances of Mr. Taft.
Report Hoover Against Willkie
Mr. Hoover was reported to be seeking -to block Mr. Willkie. A powerful figure in the convention rated now among the stopWillkie group and as somewhat more favorable to Mr. Taft than to Mr. Dewey, estimated that Mr. Dewey would lead on the first ballot by 50 votes but fall well short of a 501-vote majority. He believed Mr. Taft would pass Mr.-Dewey on the second ballot, smashing any chance of his renemination, and that Mr. Taft's third ballot nomination .would be feasible if the Willkie drive could be stopped. _ Mr. Dewey’s backers claim 410 first-ballot votes and a second or third-ballot nomination. Mr. Willkie has upwards of 70 and hac stolen
OFFICIAL WEATHER
7. 8. Weather Bureau
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Partly cloudy with local showers or . thunder storms tonight : or tomorrow; change in temperature.
cesses 4:18 | | Sunset
TEMPERATURE £" ~—June 27, 1939— 6a m.,....... 76 1p Mmioeeons.. BAROMETER 6:30 a, m......29.78 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending ’ 3» m.
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Indiana —Partly cloudy to cloudy with some - loca) showers or ci iinderstorms totight or tomorrow, except fair in north portion’ ronight: little change in tempera-
te cloudy © with owers or thunderstorms tomorrow: little change in tem-
Juinals-pattly cloudy some local night or ti perature. Lower Michigan—Mair tonight and probbly tomorrow; not quite so-cool in southi portion tonight; slightly warmer
Se iistally fair tonight and tomorrow morning, followed by local shawers and thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon; nk Zouch change in temperature. tucky—Generally fair tonight and to i ow, followed by local ray undershowers in west and north portions; not much . change in temperature.
WEATHER IN OTHER: CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Weather Bar. Temp. «..PtCldy 29.65 A 66
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“Senator Arthur Vandenburg ‘of Michigan and his daughters, Mrs. ‘Edward “Preifter. (left), of New York, and Mrs. John Bailey, of Michigan, smile happily as they attend
the show here with a last minute drive which aroused Congressional and agricultural blocs against him. He continued tp provide the color for this convention. In last night’s nominating ceremonies, submission of his name raised a howling chorus “We want Willkie” from jammed galleries and sent" delegates into the aisles for a parade and fist fights here and there.
Applause and Boos Heard
There were tremendous applause and scattered whistles and boos as Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana placed Mr. Willkie in nomination. He offered him as an Indiana farin boy who had worked his way to the top and demanded to know if the Republican Party was a ‘closed corpération” in which no newcomer might expect welcome and preferment according to his merits. + Police charged down a side zisle to the New York delegation, where Republicans were trading shoves and punches over the state standard. ‘Mayor Rolland Marvin of Syracuse won that tussle and proudly took New York's standard into the Willkie parade. There was a fight in Virginia's delegation, too, and it/ continued off and on for 10 minutes with the state standard sometimes in and sometimes out of the procession. The Virginia fracas started when paradrs from other states sought to seizz the standard as they marched by. Three Virginians rose. to battle and there were i of “get
the cops.” Taft Charges Galleries Packed
The Taft cry of “foul” was because the Willkie demonstration was supported by wildly cheering gallery guests. Col. R. B. Creager; Texas National Committeeman, came storming to the platform to charge Chairman Sam Pryor of the committee on arrangements with packing the galleries with tickets distributed without the knowledge of other committeemen. Publicity Director Franklyn Waltman said the tickets were issued in the regular order
sessions of the
HOOSIERS STILL
Jim Watson Leads Faction Holding Out for Taft And Dewey. (Continued from Page One)
the floor only at the most partisan Republican paragraphs and booing at the mention of Willkie’s former
Democratic and present utility eonnections. The first boos came when Rep. Halleck read this line: “I nominate him because, better than any man I know, he can keep us out of war.” And boos mingled with cheers at this: : : “It'll be bejter to have a public utility president than a president who has no public utility.”
' “We Want Willkie
Another line which brought boos was: “In less than nine weeks, by voluntary effort, without a political organization, and with no campaign fund, this man has been taken up by the people in every walk of life and in every corner of the land.” Rep. Halleck brought forth the candidate’s name almost at the
waiting in the old-style “man who” manner. He closed with the name also—*“Wendell - Lewis Willkie.” “We Want Willkie” came the prolonged cheering from the galleries but the €ustomary parade of dele-
of a flop as compared with those
-| of Dewey and Taft which had pre-
ceeded it. Motter Grabs Standard
Robert Motter, Marion, Fifth District delegate, grabbed the Indiana standard and led -the parade and Harold E. Minor, Hammond, carried the state’s alternate standard. Other states joining in with their standards, and some delegates, were New Jersey, Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, Minnesota, California, Maine and Virginia. Each time a new state joined the
and Mr. Pryor laughed at the ac-
parade the galleries went wild. The demonstration lasted 18 minutes.
cusation.
Hoosier Gaining, Says Stassen, Despite Efforts to Stop Him
(Continued from Page One)’
deal—the forces backing ‘Mr. Dewey might be driven into the Taft camp out of bitterness*against Mr. Willkie. The Dewey people were reported to feel that the Willkie candidacy was responsible for their own loss of ground, and to be determined to prevent a Willkie nomination. Gov. Harold Stassen of Minnesota, Mr. Willkie’s floor manager, said today that the Willkie drive was gaining steadily, especially in the Midwest. - Willkie backers give their candidate 100 votes on the first ballot, 225 on the second, 400 on the third and the -nomination on the fourth. The spectacular climb of Mr. Willkie has brought from his opponents an increasing stream of claims and arguments’ aimed at stopping him. Many of these arguments were met in the speech of Rep. Charles; A. Halleck of Indiana, nominating" Mr, Willkie—a speech stopped 40 times by applause and cheers and followed 'by the most uproarious |: demonstration of’the convention. For almost half an hour the galleries shouted, applauded and whistled, defying efforts of Rep. Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts to quiet them. Repeatedly massed thousands took up the cry “We Want Willkie!” and on the floor delegates from a dozen states swung high their banners. and paraded around the hall.
New England Leads
Three New England states led— Maine, Rhode Island and Connecticut—and then, yelling and cheering, marched delegates from Virginia, West Virginia, New York, New’ Jersey, Washington, : Minnesota and Maryland. But in the New. York and West Virginia delegations violent ‘scrambles - broke out among .
delegates when® Willkie supporters |said.
sought to raise these: ‘banners and parade. So bitter was feeling among New Yorkers that police had to ‘intervene. Several times boos were heard; always they were countered by applause and the “We Want Willkie” chant. Supporters of Dewey, Taft, Frank Gannett and. other candidates
: ment, they ssid the all
counted heavily today on resent-
ent cheering had caused among delegates.
took up the challenges that have been leveled at Mr. Willkie, Charges that the New Yorker-is the man of “big business” he answered by tracing the rise of the boy of 11 who went into business with one of his older brothers, harvested wheat in Minnesota, dressed tools in the Texas oil fields, ran a boom-town hotel in Colorado
in a freight car to pick vegetables. “I have heard it said—we all have heard it said—that he is unavailable ‘to our party because he is a businessman,” the Indiana -Con-
a success of that business and of himself. Are we to understand from this proposition that any man is barred from our deliberations who has been an American success?”
‘No” Roars Galleries
The galleries came back: “No!” And another challenge from Rep. Halleck: : “I have heard it said that we, the delegates of the Republican National Convention, would never nominate this man because he is too recently a Democrat. Is the Republican Party a closed corporation? Do you have to be born in it?
one of us—a man who believes in us —a-man in whom millions of our
ready fervently believe. » ‘The People Want ‘Hin’
Willkie, ‘Mr. Halleck contended; would attract milions who habitually belong to no party and millions from Democratic ranks. “I've been here in Philadelphia for two weeks riding in front of a tidal
been known in Bational. politics,” he :
“The people: of this ‘country are worried, and perplexed. They want the whéels of industry to turn, they
want a break for hor they want to give new opportunity to those who are now Sportons . Above all they want to defend “this country from aggression. . “This is the man the people are looking for; if any man can do that
rs insist.
Job, Wendell Lewis Willkie can.” ai
‘Wendell wilikie . gels the lowdown on how to , deliver the knockout punch to his opponents from a master of the art, former heavyweight champion Gene Tunney, between|
" BUCKING WILLKIE,
beginning of the speech rather than}
gates” on the: floor was somewhat}
One after another Rep. Halleck|
and bummed his way to California |
gressman said. “Worse, he ltas made |
, “Let it never be said that we bar| from our deliberations a man who is}.
people, members of our party, al-|
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Republican National Convention.
THE CANDIDATES—
PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (U.P.).—The Republican ‘National Con vention chooses among these men for their Presidential neminee: THOMAS E. DEWEY, 38, District Attorney of New York County, New York City, famed as a racket-buster. ROBERT A. TAFT, 50, Senator from Ohio, son of a former President and Chief Justice of the United States. WENDELL L. WILLKIE, 43, president of the Commonwealth and Southern Corp., a native of Indiana; a resident of New York City. FRANK E. GANNETT, 63, newspaper publisher of Rochester, N, Y. _ ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG, 56. Senator from Michigan. CHARLES L. MCNARY, 66, Senator from Oregon. HANFORD MAONIDER, 50, of Iowa, former National Commander
of the American Legion H. STYLES BRIDGES, 41, Senator from New Hampshire.
STACKED, INSIST OLD-UNE FOES
Bu Tickets Were Given out
By Leaders Against His Candidacy.
By FRED W. PERKINS Times Staff Writer
" PHILADELPHIA, June 27—Controversy over the spontaneity of last night's tremendous demonstration for Wendell Willkie by the Republican convention galleries continued
| to rage today. :
Stories that the galleries had been “packed” with Willkie supporters started before the cheering and applause set’ off by the nominating speech of Rep. Charles Halleck of ‘Indiana had begun to abate. - Tending to discount ‘the sacousa=
| tion® was the fact that the great | mass of tickets was distributed: "or
reserved weeks ago, before the Will kie boom took on such proportigns as to’alarm the old-line politicians of the Republican Party. 5
"og Much of. the distribution Was
through the Republican state and city organizations, which are officially lined up back of the candi=
dacy of Governor. James of Pennsylvania. ’ The distribution was controlled by leaders who have not yet shown any sympathy for the Willkie candidacy. Thousands of tickets went to. the fashionable “main line” suburbs of Philadelphia, traditionally Republican in the old- fashioned way Whoever held the tickets, most of them joined in a tumult of cheering that was not approached in the ovations - for Thomas E. Dewey and Senator Robert A. Taft. Mr. Willkie undoubtedly had a majority among the men and women Who:sat in the
pi, H. JAMES, 56,. Governor of Pennsylvania. HARLAN EUSHITELD, Governor of South Dakota.
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