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...Non-Partisan. This was high talk. All the way across the country, in plains, mountains, woods, cities, people listened, went away thinking. This sort of talk drew no applause. Whether it fell flat or sank deep, only Election Day would prove. But the cheers came only for griddle-hot partisan talk, and Willkie's strength or weakness as a candidate still lay in the fact that he is a reasonable man who doesn't know how to talk partisan politics. Too reasonable, said Roosevelt-haters...
Wendell Willkie was a walking, talking political paradox: he was trying to make a non-partisan campaign. Convinced that he will get the basic 16,500,000 regular Republican votes anyway, he struck again & again into Democratic strongholds, into areas that had never seen a Presidential nominee of any stripe, traveled over rusty railspurs that had never held a passenger train. Correspondents agreed that, as a campaigner, he was a terrific in-&-outer. Groups of a half-dozen he wholly charmed; with 300 he was excellent; with 10,000 he was fair; faced by more than 20,000 people...
Politics? Yes and No. C. I. O. chieftains have plugged harder for "planning" than A. F. of L. cautionocrats; Labor's Non-Partisan League and John L. Lewis' third-party maneuvers have widened labor's split...
...that some bugs had been smoothed out. But he went out of his way to congratulate Oren Root for "a magnificent job." More important, Wendell Willkie pointedly indicated that his campaign will be kept in three distinct channels: 1) the Root clubs, with their appeal to the mass of non-partisan independents who twice elected Franklin Roosevelt, will again elect a President in 1940; 2) a rapidly developing organization for Democratic bolters (see col. 2); 3) Congressman Martin's national committee...
...campaign, the President may well have viewed them as useful for less partisan purposes-useful perhaps to lend new hope to Britain, whose immediate collapse would place the U. S. in an even more dangerous position, useful possibly to lift the desperate efforts of the U. S. to a non-partisan plane, where they could command the united efforts...