"Republicans Can Win"

Is Wendell Willkie tarred with the Democratic brush? Captain Joseph Patterson's New York Daily News, bitter Willkie foe, relentlessly tells its 2,000,000 daily readers that Willkie was once a "Tammany Democrat." Willkie opponents within the G.O.P. sneer at his One-Worldliness as an imitation of Henry Wallace. Many a plain G.O.P. voter wonders from time to time.

Last week Wendell Willkie made his first public statement on 1944 election issues, and tried to set the record straight on his Republicanism. To a group of Indiana Republicans at his Rushville home, he identified himself as one "devoted to the Republican Party." Said he:

"The Republican Party should and can win the next Presidential and Congressional elections. But in order to win, we Republicans must present to the people a constructive, liberal domestic program . . . and must have the imagination to present a realistic foreign policy. . . ."

He stated some of the things he does not like about Democrats:

"We must put an end to the period when failure in private endeavor has been a passport to Government service; when crass political machines have dictated the appointment of foreign ambassadors and high judicial officers . . . when extravagance in public expenditures has been accepted as proof of love of common man and evidence of a liberal mind. . . ."

But as always, he took a few swings at certain Republicans: "The Republican Party must completely forsake the tempting notion that it can win by the amalgamation of the dissident groups in America --the narrow nationalists, the economically selfish . . . above all, the religious and racial bigots. In other words, we Republicans must take the affirmative, eschew the negative."

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