Judge — June 1938 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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HE pressure being brought to bear Ta Alf M. Landon to announce his candidacy for the United States Sen. atorship from Kansas is tremendous. His candidacy, if announced, would be based upon two premises; first, the wel- fare of the State of Kansas in its ap- pearance before the nation, and second, that the great party demand now exist- ing in Kansas for his nomination, re- solve itself into a unanimous demand, without contention, in the primaries— which Governor Landon does not ex- pect and would consider a miracle. The first premise has as its motivat- ing influence the already announced can- didacy of Gerald B. Winrod, of Wichi- ta, evangelist and editor of the “Defender,” a combina- tion of medicine man, circus barker and fanatic. Winrod succeeds, in some degree, to the: mantle of old Doc Brinkley. He is anti-every- thing, and particularly anti- Jew and anti-Catholic. He rants his way about the Sun- flower State trying to attract a sufficient following to in- sure his nomination on the Republican ticket for United States Senator. That would be a situation not to the lik. ing of the party as a whole. The second premise has to do with the political as- pirations, for the same nom- ination, of former Gover- nor Clyde M. Reed, of Par- sons, editor of the ‘Parsons Sun,” Dallas W. Knapp, of Coffeyville, lawyer, now State Senator, and Reverend Jesse Clyde Fisher, of Gar- den City, Methodist minister, who re- signed as district superintendent of the Methodist Church in Southwest Kansas to make the Senatorial race, all of whom are respected and liked by the former Governor and Republican candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Their campaigns are sincere and dig. nified. The growing demand for the nomination of Alf Landon would not bring an announcement of his candi- dacy in competition with all of these three. The demand for Landon’s candidacy is as unique as it is intense, in that it ‘comes not only from his fellow Kan- sans, but from people in all parts of the United States, who would like to see the Republican Party represented in the up- per house of the Congress by such a man. That he would add lustre to the party name goes without saying. That his great common sense and rich exper- ience would be an invaluable asset to both the government and his ‘party is equally certain. In a speech before the Inland Press Association in Chicago on May 17th, he delivered a broad and bitter attack against Hitlerism and dictatorship in Copyright, 1938, by Junce Macazing, Inc. general in whatever nation. It was a masterpiece both of statesmanship and constructive thinking, and is earnestly recommended to the reading of every American, In his conversation with this writer at his home in Topeka, the Governor said, “I sincerely feel a deep sense of obligation to the seventeen million peo- ple who voted for me at the last elec- tion, and I submerge all political ambi- tion for the good of my party. I feel that the party needs one man who is not a candidate for anything.” Statisti- cians have shown how these seventeen million votes to which the Governor re- fers, distributed very little differently, would have elected him to the Presidency. Seventeen million people voting for any man in these United States is a lot of people, and any man who had a follow- ing such as that in the cha- otic and emotional cam- paign of two years ago can be counted upon as being a serious factor with which td contend in the next na- tional election, regardless of his final decision on the Senatorship. T is not recalled when any man, defeated for the Presidency, has emerged from that defeat with such a retention of well-balanced common sense, happy con- duct and a constantly amaz- ing and ever increasing growth in stature. He is the titular head of the Republic. an Party in the nation to- day, and as its head has not tried in any way to impose his will upon the party. He has the right, set by prece- dent, to outline its policies and its aims, and to pass upon its announced objec- tives. As United States Senator from the State of Kansas, he would be well upon his way to his second nomination for the Presidency, and his election would be the turning af one of the most brilliant pages in American history. H.N. 7 comicbooks.com