Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1940 — Page 14

“Let's Elect’'a REAL AMERICAN

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as Our Next President”

«By IRVIN S. COBB

® I am.no renegade, but a Democrat, born and bred, who never voted a Republican ticket in his life . . . who joins his voice with the voices of those who mean to cast their bdllots for a genuine Democrat, running in defense of ancient democratic principles —

the only true Democrat running for President this year on any ticket, WENDELL WILLKIE.

The plain people took the Republican convention away bodily, from its proprietors and nominated him for the presidency of the United States. .

If there is one political theory, that we have had since the name first began to mean something in American history, it is the theory that we will never indefinitely perpetuate in office any one man at the head of our government; that we will never set up a political dynasty, with no checks on its tenure of office.

We are told that we must not dare to swap horses in the middle of the stream. I, for one, deny that we are in the middle of any, stream. But if we are, I, for one, would rather risk the danger of despotism from | without than the danger of despotism from within.

Without prejudice, it seems to me that WENDELL WILLKIE approximates the stature of as fine a type of American as this generation, or any other, has produced. They accuse ‘him of being an “economic royalist.” Well, let's see about that. Weseehimasa boy in a little Indiana town, selling newspapers on the street . .. Driving a junk wagon for $1.75 a week . . .

We see him employed as a day laborer .. . We see him working

his way through college and we see him as a school teacher. He

earned the title of “economic royalist,” if you want to call him

that, by the callouses in the palms of his hands and by the salty, taste of honest sweat on his lips. He is opposed by a group which might very well be called governmental royalists. For to defeat

him, they have the advantage of the greatest campaign fund, the . greatest organized group of federal employees, the greatest appeal

through pressure of patronage and pomp of political power that 'America has ever known.

As a Democrat, I like my fellow Democrat, WENDELL WILLKIE, for some of the enemies he has made. The Kelly machine in Chicago i$ against him. The Hague machine in Jersey City heartily opposes him.

I like WENDELL WILLKIE because he has never endeavored to set mass against class, or vice versa. How can we have class dis-

tinction in a country where yesterday’s laborer is today’s foreman

and tomorrow’s executive? . . . In America we either go up or we go down from the station in which we were Lorn. ‘And that, thanks be to God, is the root and branch of true Americanism which denies no man opportunity however humble his beginning.

I count it a crime for any man to seek to divide us off into hostile groups when we all should be dedicated, at this dangerous hour, to the task of cementing our country together to make

‘it enemy proof, and to perpetuating the historic and traditional in-

stitution of democracy.

I like WENDELL WILLKIE because I think I see in his plain utterances, his homely, kindly Hoosier’s face, his record as a citizen, as a soldier, as a lawyer, as a business man, and as a straightforward American, a promise of future harmony, future prosperity, and future progress for the United States. |

IRVIN S. COBB

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