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ff Willkie Is Candidate For
GOP In 1944, He Will Break
Party Precedent of 86 Years
By Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON, Dec. - Al
ready Washington is talking
about 1944 as if it were just
around the corner. The politic
al prognosticators are burning
midnight juice and slinging ink
from Page 1 to Classifi.d trying
to guess the future of Wendell
L. Willkie and the part he will
play in the Republican party in
the coming years.
Let’s leave that to the Pol.
Progs. Really they don’t know
much more about it than we do,
as most of them will admit. The
shape of things to come will
mold the future of the Republic
an party (and the Democratic
party, too) and of Wendell L.
Willkie but—
IF Mr. Willkie is nominated
for the presidency again in 1944
he will be upsetting another Re
publican apple-cart (and one
that has been running smoothly
for 86 years) because he will be
the first defeated candidate in
the history of the party ever to
have been nominated for a sec
ond try.
Not only that but if Mr. Will
kie should even be considered as
a serious contender for the nom
ination by next convention time,
he will be kicking over a prece
dent that has been broken by
dnly two men in either of the
major parties since pre-Civil
War days.
DEMOCRATIC EXCEPTIONS
Grover Cleveland and William
Jennings Bryan both were nom
inated on the Democratic ticket
three times. Bryan of course nev
er won the election. Cleveland
did twice and although he w'as
a defeated Candidate when he
was nominated in 1892 this was
somewhat offset by the fact that
he had been Presid nt for four
BEFORE his defeat. These are
two exceptions and both were
Democrats. Let’s look at the ros
t.-r >f defeated Republican cand
idat-s.
T e first candidate of the Re
publican party as we know it to
'day was Gen. John Charles Fre
mont, Indian fighter, California
hero and veteran of a dozen west
ern ventures that had made him
a national figure. James Buchan
an beat him in 1856 and although
Fr.n'ont remained in.the lime
ligh; a good many years (he was
Territorial Governor of Arizona
and he was nominated by a rump
con ntion of Republican radi
cal; nt Cleveland in 1864 but
withdrew in favor o Lincoln
when he was convinced his can
didacy might split the party vote
he never really counted as a pol
itical arc? after his defeat.
Jar.es G. Blain defeated by
Cleveland in 1884 stayed in the
picture long enough to become
Benjamin Harrison’s Secretary of
Slate 1889-92 hut w'hen Harrison
was defeated he turn d to inter
national law.
TOOK COURT POSTS
Wi Ham Howard Taft and Char
les Evans Hughes went on from
defeated candidates to become
Chief Justices of the Supreme
Court a position which preclud
es political activity. Former
President Hoover and Alf M.
Landon are of course still on the
political scene but conventions
since their defeats have passed
them by with little more than a
nod of courtesy.
On the Democratic side, since
1860 there have been Stephen A.
Douglas who died shortly after
Lincoln’s first inaugural; Gen.
| George B. McClellan; Horatio
j Seymour and Horace Greeley,
who were beaten by Grant; Sam
uel J. Tilden defeated by Ruth
rford B. Hayes in the famous
contested election; Gen. Win
veld Scott Hancock, the bril
, liant Union General who was de
feated by Garfield; and Alton B.
Parker who lost to Theodore
Roosevelt in 1904. In nearly ev
ery instance these men “retired
to private life" after their politic
al Waterloos as did James M.
Cox the Dayton, Ohio, publisher,
and John W. Davis the New
York attorney. Al Smith’s de
eat in 1928 has brought in its
wake only his well known
“walks" of succeeding years and
a split with the party to which
he had given life-long allegiance.
This is the record that Mr.
Wilkie has to look back upon.
He may of course become the Re
publican Bryan or Cleveland but
if he does hehl have to smash
another Republican precedent—
one that is probably even more
firmly established than those he
broke when he ran away with
the party nomination in Phila
delphia.
FREE FRENCH MOVEMENT
OF de GAULLE GROWING
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SINGAPORE, Dec. 15—A Brit
ish spokesman said that the
“Free French" movement of Gen
eral de Gaulle was growing in
the Far East.
As evidence, the spokesman
pointed out that the De Gaulle
government has a representative
at Singapore, considered one of
the key points in the Far East.
He is Guy de Schompre former
consular official in Tientsin.
Some evidence if sympathy to
ward the de Gaulle forces is al
so found in French Indo-China.
However the French colony is
now compl ting a so-ca led com
mercial treaty with Japan which
will formally grant the Tokio
government far-reaching powers
there. ’
NOTICE
Write to your friends and rela
wes on the ’Outside’, using Sour
njgh Stationery. Iney 11 get a big
sek out of it.
Salvage worker removes an aerial bomb which British sources say
was found in the shattered rack of a German bomber that crashed j
at Bromley, Kent, demolishing two houses. The bombs in the rack
did not explode and were removed from the wreckage along with
the body of one German airman.
Big Xmas Mail
Goes On Train
From Fairbanks
One of the heaviest outgoing
mails of this year departed from
Fairbanks recently on the train.
The quantity amounted to al
most three truck loads.
Nearly all the outgoing pack
age mail was Christmas mail des
tined for various places in the
States. Included in the outgoing
mail was a large amount of let
ter mail. Many letters contained
postofilca ord rs as Christmas
presents.
Post office windows were busy
a 1 most continuously selling
stamps and money orders.
To get the various classes of
mail ready for dispatch this
morning the postoffice force
worked until nearly midnight
the night before and the men em
ployees were on the job again at
5 in the morning.
The southbound train made
use of three cars to take care of
mail, express and baggage.
Another southbound mail and
passeng r train left Fairbanks
Monday to connect with a steam*
ship at Seward.
A train also left Fairbanks to
day to connect with steamship at
Seward. Letter and package mail
leaving on today's train is ex
pected to reach the Pacific north
west states by Christmas.
Incoming mail by train and
plane has been heavy. The Fair
banks postoffice is busy dispatch
ing this by plane to various plac
es in the Fourth and Second Div
isions.
Morale Is
Held Key To
British \ ictorv
SAN FRANCISCO—A British
eye witness to the Battle of Brit
ain told the Commonwealth Club
“the issu of the war will de
pend on m rale.”
Arnold Lunn, author, lecturer.
| assistant professor at Notre
Dame University in 1937 implied
i the British morale is sgy high.
“The British have a great su
ec riority complex.” he said.
"They regard a d feat as a tem
norary reversal to nature resum1
ng her natural routine.”
Morale of the children appears
to affected, Lunn asserted.
He said his own daughter, af
teib mbs fa 1 n arthe Lunn resi
d n.ee while she was home on a
■chool vacation had said:
i "One of my friends was bit
ten by a snake. Another went
i through an earthquake. It seem
ed nothing ever happ.ned to me.
Do you think bring bombed is
| as good as being bitten by a
I snake?”
"Should the children being to
crack he said “it would be terr
ible for their parents.”
He said that reports of the
bombings sound worse at a dis
! tance and that there is really
i small chances of being hit by a
: bomb in London.
“The bombing casualties,” he
said “are only three or four tim
es those in the United States
from automobiles.”
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P~ of Labor Blanks can now
bo had at the Nome Nugget office
lhe United States Army has initiated skis as part of its fighting equipment. The 41st Division's new
ski unit went through initial maneuvers (above) on Mt. Rainier’s snowy slopes. Mt. Rainier. Wash.,
is in the background.
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Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
—
Cloudy with light snow and much warmer tonight. Thursday
! cloudy with occasional light snow and warmer.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:60 pm Today
Highest temp — -1 Lowest temp-23 Precipitation — 0
Total precip this mo. 0.33 Total since Jan, 1, 1940, 12.06
Temp. Humidity Wind Woather
12 Midnight-- --- -io 36 NW-7 Clear
i a m - —--- -8 52 NE- 5 Cloudy
i2:30 p m.... -1 54 NE-6 Cloudy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 9:56 am Sunset 1:55 pm
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp-9 Lowest temp — -16 Precipitation — 0
WEATHER SYNOPSIS AND GENERAL
Unsettled and much warmer weather over the entire Peninsula
during the next twenty four hours: Tonight there will be light
snow falls over the western portion and moderate snow over the
eastern portion with temperatures generally about zero and slight
ly higher. Thursday weather will toe variable cloudiness with scat
tered light snow and temperatures generally about five to ten de
grees above zero.
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