Receiving Line

Holding his main attack in reserve for his official acceptance speech next week, Republican Nominee Wendell Willkie kept up a running skirmish with his Presidential opponent. As Democratic bolters and independent voters came out for him, Candidate Willkie stood at the head of the receiving line, deftly turning each one's particular strength into a campaign weapon--sometimes by letting a new supporter speak for himself, sometimes by his own welcoming remarks. Last week Mr. Willkie received into the fold:

P:Former Governor George White of Ohio, onetime Democratic National Committee chairman, saying: "As an American, believing in a free Democracy, I cannot bring myself to vote for President Roosevelt for a third term."

P:Former Democratic Presidential Candi date Alfred Emanuel Smith. Willkie welcome: "His liberal principles were adopted by ... Franklin D. Roosevelt and Governor Lehman. ... I hope that nobody suggests that the warmhearted Al Smith ... is ... actuated by love of money rather than humanity."

P:New York's old Samuel Seabury, pompous, churchly lawyer. Willkie welcome: "I consider Judge Seabury one of the most distinguished men in the country in cleaning up corrupt political machines in our big cities."

P:Former Chairman John Butler Jameson of New Hampshire's Democratic State Committee, saying: "As an American who is much more interested in the welfare of the country than in the success of any political party, I shall vote for Willkie. . . ."

P:Author Lloyd Cassel Douglas, saying: "Please insist on the preservation of your amateur standing. . . ."

P:Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, acting Smith College president and mother-in-law of Charles Lindbergh, saying: "Count on five votes from my family."

P:Democrat Frederic Rene Coudert, New York attorney: "I do not believe in the theory of the indispensable individual . . . that theory . . . leads to dictatorship."

P:Mrs. Guilford Dudley of Tennessee, first woman delegate-at-large to the Democratic National Convention (1920): ". . . You represent the true democracy. . . ."

When able Cary Augustus Hardee, onetime Governor of Florida, fired away at Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight without coming out for his opponent, Candidate Willkie kept silent. Blasted Cary Hardee: "We will hear much in this campaign from the 'pie counter' crowd about how the rank and file of a great people drafted Mr. Roosevelt. Will the people be fooled by it?" But when aging (73) isolationist Senator Hiram Johnson denounced the President for calling him no longer liberal, the Republican nominee chimed in. Observed he: "I would be delighted if a great progressive like Hiram Johnson was in my corner."

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