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Last week, from a stanch old Republican oak with roots deep in the soil of the Midwest, dropped the first rebellious acorn. In his Emporia Gazette, Editor William Allen White attacked Ohio's Governor John W. Bricker resoundingly...
Dewey and Vandenberg, Taft and Bricker, old-line Republicans . . . Dewey young, but only physically. ... All wanting to go back to '29. Not one of them realizing what even the most stupid man in the street knows: that these are new times, enlightened times, progressive times. Not one of them with even a visible shred of social consciousness...
...Thomas E. Dewey. a longtime Willkie enemy, had read himself out of the 1944 Presidential race. Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. who will never forgive Willkie for taking the G.O.P. nomination away from him in 1940, had withdrawn in favor of Ohio's Governor John W. Bricker. Michigan's potent Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg had also withdrawn, in favor of nobody in particular...
...hand on G.O.P. "organization," all these moves might have added up to a clear field for him. But since he is still an amateur among professionals, they appeared to add up to an anti-Willkie plot-with most of the party's top leaders firmly united (perhaps behind Bricker, perhaps behind someone as yet undisclosed) to stop a repetition of 1940's Philadelphia convention...
...laymen, Willkie is the only party leader who arouses any enthusiasm. In prestige and personal appeal, he has no runner-up. But to the Republican machine, Willkie simply does not exist. In 1940, Ohio's professional Republicans had their own man in Senator Taft. Now they have Governor Bricker. And this time they think they have a winner. Ohio is sewed up tight for Bricker; right now Willkie couldn't swing a precinct committeeman. . . . The independent organization that fought for Willkie in 1940 is dead...