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...Republican Party, which with blood in its eye has often gone gunning for professors, last week got some clear-eyed professorial advice. The advice came from Ohio Northern University's Dr. Wilfred Ellsworth Binkley, history and political science professor. His new book, American Political Parties: Their Natural History (Knopf, $3.75), told Republicans: if they want to win the 1944 election they must find another Theodore Roosevelt...
...Binkley's was no hasty diagnosis...
Diagnosis. Dr. Binkley, although too conscientious a historian to be a partisan, is too good a Midwesterner not to wish Republicans well. And he knows, from his personal political experience as a delegate to party caucuses and conventions, as well as from his reading, that to defeat Franklin Roosevelt in 1944 the Republicans must offer the voters something more than another "return to normalcy...
...Republican Party, Dr. Binkley points out, was originally a coalition party made up of "small enterprisers," of farm and labor groups. Its labor strength was so important that at times the G.O.P. looked like an out-&-out labor party. Labor deserted the G.O.P. only after T.R., when Republican leadership passed to William Howard Taft, "Uncle Joe" Cannon and Charles Evans Hughes. Ergo, writes Dr. Binkley, the No. 1 job facing Republicans today is to get the labor and lower-income vote back. He summarizes: > "Rapidly growing organized labor, voting the Democratic ticket almost 3-to-1, will not be impressed...
...Diagnostician Binkley then concludes...