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...beast was no longer skinny and bag-kneed; its once limp and drooping trunk now swayed with menacing promise. But the G.O.P. elephant mostly drowsed or shifted from foot to foot. Every time the Party seemed about to wake up, a red-faced, elderly mahout named Harrison Spangler tiptoed up and made quiet, shushing nursery-noises until the pachyderm was soothed and drowsy again...
...first Republican object their eyes fell on, to his considerable discomfort, was Harrison Spangler...
...Spangler? Harrison Earl Spangler is an old-fashioned politician who happens to be Chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was described by the Willkie-minded New York Herald Tribune, after careful analysis, as "possibly not the most disastrous" front man the Party has ever had. With malicious whoops, critics have called him: 1) "the soft underbelly of the Republican Party;" 2) a spokesman who tries to put both feet into his mouth simultaneously; 3) a fictional character invented by the New Deal's foxy old pressagent, Charlie Michelson...
...Great Willkie Button Mystery was at last explained. When the New Jersey mother of a Marine in the South Pacific got a letter from him asking for 500 old Willkie campaign buttons, with the explanation of why he wanted them deleted by a censor. Republican National Chairman Harrison E. Spangler sized the event up as a red-hot issue. Probably, he spluttered, demanding an investigation, the Marine was just trying to counteract New Deal propaganda in the armed forces...
Backers of Lieut. Commander Harold E. Stassen were ubiquitous, hospitable and much in evidence. Biggest bungle came from National Chairman Spangler. He flatly announced that U.S. soldiers were 56% Republican, 44% Democratic. He based this opinion, he said, on a "survey" taken by four Army officers in England "in the course of their regular activity." Three hours later, harassed Harrison issued a hasty explanation. He did not mean to imply that the G.O.P. was meddling in Army affairs. He had just got a few reports from four old friends, now in the Army, who had sampled the opinions...