Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1944 — Page 2

Personality Clashes May Be Carried Over Into the Campaign.

+ By THOMAS L. STOKES Scripps-Howard Staff Writer CHICAGO, June 27—The Republican national convention is exhibiting clashes of personality that may carry over into the campaign. A distate for one another is obvious between Governor Dewey of New York, who is to be nominated for President on the first ballot tomorrow, and Governor Bricker of Ohio, who has been his leading rival and who is a favorite with some elements in the party. And Wendell Willkie has clashed with virtually the whole party—that is, with its practical politicians— which explains their attempt to keep him as far away from this convention as possible. They kept him away, but his voice descended, as if from the wings, in his statement criticizing as “ambiguous” the foreign policy plank in the projected platform. The regulars said, disdainfully but with undertones of fear: “There's that man again!”

Still Has a Following

Mr. Willkie has some friends in this convention, and they think the managers have made a mistake in freezing him out. He still has a following in the country, and they think he is a bad man to have on the other side—which the party leaders have practically-invited him to join. Among those who. disapprove of the cold-shoulder treatment are some of the governors here, particularly Governor Martin of Pennsylvania. At a luncheon given by Mr. Martin for the governors there was some discussion of what might be done to include Mr. Willkie in the party festivities. Later, upon Mr, Willkie's condemnation of the platform plank, regular leaders stiffened their backs some more.

Bricker Stood Firm

As to the Dewey-Bricker difference, some party leaders, particularly from the Midwest, wanted to produce a show of harmony by having Governor Bricker withdraw and nominate Governor Dewey—some of them with the expectatilon that Governor Bricker might then be named vice presidential candidate. But Governor Dewey is adamant against Governor Bricker as running mate. His lieutenants made indirect overtures to Mr. Bricker to withdraw and nominate the New Yorker, but with no suggestion about the vice presidlency. There was an intimation that if Governor Dewey himself would request Governor Bricker to withdraw and make the nominating speech, it might get results. But it never happened. Governor Bricker was insisting on keeping his name before the convention.

Griswold Is Picked

Instead, the Dewey forces picked Governor Griswold of Nebraska to make the nominating speech—an effective gesture to the Middlé West, for Governor Griswold is a popular figure, twice governor and a candidate for a third term with re-election assured. Governor Dewey's plan for the eonvention, worked out some time ago, is being executed monotonously to the letter, and it calls for nomination of Governor Warren of California as running mate. The broad-shouldered, amiable Warren, who brought the convention to its feet last night with his keynote speech, has been reluctant to take the vice presidential nomination, and convincingly Sincere about it, but he has given in. His rousing speech clinched it.

May Confuse California

His nomination may create a confusing situation in California. His lieutenant governor is the Republican nominee for the senate. Election of both to Washington would leave California without its two top executives, Mr. Warren could appoint an acting governor, but he does not like to desert his state after election for a four-year term that is only half completed. But Governor Dewey was most anxious for the east-west ticket. He believes that representation for. the Pacific coast on the ticket might ewing the coast states, of which Washington and California are clearly “doubtful,” and might be infiuential in the West generally. That section has a feeling it has not got all it deserved from the Roosevelt administration.

Isolationist Issue

Governor Dewey gave consideration to the arguments of midwesterners that the Bricker-Taft influence in the party is powerful, and that Ohio might be assured for the Republicans if Governor Bricker were on the ticket. Another factor is involved, from Governor Dewey's angle. Governor Bricker has been regarded by the isolationists as their champion, and his nomination would be open to eriticism as a straddle designed to catch that element. Governor Warren's views on international co-operation are close to those of Mr. Dewey, as he revealed in his keynote speech.

RUTH DOWNEY HEADS GROUP AT BUTLER

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Bricker Bitterly Unhappy,

Gunner's mate 3-¢ Paul Bryant Hornaday of the navy (right) and Marine Cpl. Irvin Oliver, both of Indianapolis, held a reunion recently under the palm trees on a southwest Pacific island. Gunner Hornaday, 18, heard that Cpl Oliver, 21, his childhood playmate, and fellow classman of the U. B. builders of the First United Brethren church, was on an island near that of his own post. He took a plane and joined his friend for a 24-hour visit. Gunner Hornaday is the son of Paul B. Hornaday of Indianapolis and Mrs. Willis, Morristown, and Cpl. Oliver’s parents are Mr. and Mrs, Edward Oliver, Indianapolis, Both boys attended Tech high school.

TO NO. 1 LOSER

But Party Owes Him A Big Debt. By HENRY J. TAYLOR Scripps-Howard Staff Writer CHICAGO, June 27—-On the human side of politics the most appealing figure today is the convention’s No. 1 loser. The rumblings of the bandwagons have blanketed him. But behind closed doors informed Republicans are tipping

their hats to Gov. John W. Bricker, A year ago, Republicans were beating a path to Columbus urging Ohio's three-time governor to fill the sad vacuum of candidateless silence by stumping from Maine to California, carrying Republican issues to" the country and saving the party the embarrassment of having no candidate in the field. A year ago Bricker was the indispensable man. In 1940, while Wendell Willkie was losing Ohio by 141,000 votes, Mr. Bricker won the state by 369,000, meaning he ran 510,000 votes ahead of the presidential candidate. And Mr. Bricker received 91,000 more votes in Ohio than President Roosevelt.

‘It's Up to You, John’

As 1944 loomed and nobody was willing to make the run for the presidency, the pilgrims to Columbus became a little frantic, “It’s

up to you, John,” said one state leader after another. “Otherwise nobody will represent the party.” Yet Governor Bricker, in order to run, had to pass up easy reelection to Ohio's governorship, lose control of his own party in the state, and possibly enter the ranks of the politically unemployed. Bricker had to burn his political bridges a year and a half in advance, Furthermore, the project involved one of the longest preconvention campaigns in political history. Sitting on his porch one Sunday last June Mr. Bricker finally agreed to go to bat and to keep on slugging through the convention. When the word went out from Columbus that night it was the best news insiders in the Republican party had heard in 1943. Bricker would go it alone.

Stumped 36 States

He stumped 36 states. He talked Republican politics with ‘everyone from ward heelers to governors. “I'll support any candidate who is nominated,” he said from the beginning. And every potential candidate knew he meant it. Here was one candidacy which helped everybody | and hurt nobody, for Mr. Bricker | himself planned it that way. He traveled 25,000 miles. He sparkplugged the summoning of governors’ conferences, He pulled hard Jor the Mackinac conference to clear the party on foreign issues. He went to Kentucky and helped Governor Willis get elected when without Bricker's help—as Willis himself said—the Republicans had no chance, He urged the convention arrangements committee to choose Governor Warren for last night's keynote speech and then urged Governor Warren to make it. He worked with Republicans everywhere. A Debt to Bricker

When they didn’t help him in his campaign he spoke well of them

him, a more appreciative man has not been seen in American politics. Here in Chicago his bitter disappointments—and there have been several—he has kept to himself. And it isn’t easy to be a loser on such a bandwagon scale as this when you have hit the sawdust trail alone and singlehanded for 12 long months. But if reports from this convention sound as though the governor of Ohio were forgotten or were only an also-ran, the impression is merely on the surface. Every real figure in the Republican party knows the debt of the

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