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Show GOP to Inject Vigor of Youth in 1944 Campaign j Dewey Leader Indicates Republicans Will Hit at Machine Politics and Left Wing Elements During Race. By BAUKIIAGE 1 Newt AnidyU and Commentator. I WNU Rervlre, Union Truttt Building, Washington, D. C. In a week or so the political campaigns cam-paigns will be warming up and already al-ready the main lines of attack and counter-attack have begun to form. The bombs will explode far from the banks of the Potomac-nepubli-can headquarters and regional offices of-fices are already springing up and their activities are far removed from Washington's daily life. But nowhere is the interest in politics and the garnering of votes as great as In this voteless city. Before Candidate Dewey started westward with Pittsburgh and St. Louis station stops. Herbert Brown-ell, Brown-ell, the new chairman of national committee, visited Republican headquarters head-quarters here on Connecticut avenue ave-nue to get acquainted. He did and made a very good Impression. As one reporter remarked, "What a change In the genus chairman." Brownell Is quite a contrast to his predecessor, Harrison Spangler. and the accent is on youth. Brownell Is 40, looks younger, although his dusty blonde hair Is sparse. He reminded me of a fraternity brother (he happens hap-pens to be one, I discovered) who was assistant professor of something not too highbrow the non-academic type. He Is a Nebraskan and a Mayflower descendant who won a cholarshlp at his state university which took htm to Yale where he edited the Yale Law Journal, no Insignificant In-significant distinction. Bring Dewey Closer To General Public He made an excellent law connection connec-tion In New York, was elected to the state legislature and developed a keen nose for politics which brought him to the position of counsel for the state Republican committee. He was one of the Inner circle of the Dewey group and liked Dewey as those who are closest to him do and unlike those in the middle distances, who don't. A part of Brownell' s job will be to bridge that gap. He or somebody else has already been giving giv-ing lessons to the governor In the charm school as was evident at his first press conference In Chicago after aft-er his nomination where he revealed his training. The cynical Albany press gang were a little taken aback by the governor's showing at that time. lush but powdery thatch doesn't go so well with that. "Control of the Democratic party." par-ty." said Mr. Brownell, "rests wholly whol-ly with two elements the bosses of the corrupt big city machines and the radical left wingers who ar; closer to communism than any other oth-er political philosophy." Right there you have two key notes, the first which the ex-prosecuting attorney can sound in all Its variations and no doubt he will. The second will fit splendidly into Mr. Bricker's style of oratory and will appeal to the audiences of the Middle West, which were so moved before Chicago that they almost would not let him take a secoi.d place on the ticket they wanted him so badly to top. Expect Dewey to Rip Truman's Connections A Democrat who was a Wallace backer said to me Just after the Tru-nwn Tru-nwn bandwagon began to roll: "I can't figure out what thirf is all about. They nominate a man who got his start from the Pendergast machine because Pendergast swore he could take an unknown and make him a senator and did. What will Mr. District Attorney do to him?" It Is true Pendergast gave Truman Tru-man his start, but whatever you may think of Mr. Pendergast's moralsthey mor-alsthey did land him temporarily in jail the one quality that everybody every-body who knows Truman talks about and the thing the senator's record points to, is honesty. But what are facts in a political year anyhow? Erownell hinted that there would be plenty said about "Bosses of corrupt cor-rupt political machines." So that's the scent and a fairly noisome one, which you can expect the Republicans Republi-cans to follow lustily and In full cry. Brownell was asked if the influence influ-ence of the CIO on the Democratic party would be exploited. Brownell merely said we could expect something some-thing on that subject, too. He would not say, however, whether he thought that nominating Truman instead in-stead of Wallace, for whom Sydney Hillman's CIO political committee was pulflhg so hard, strengthened the Democratic ticket. He was asked If he expected the support of John Lewis. He didn't answer that directly but he did say that he expected a large proportion of labor support and that party lead- Dewey Is naturally an Introvert, with a tendency toward egocentrici-ty. egocentrici-ty. But he Is one of the lucky ones who knows it and from school days he has struggled against the aloofness aloof-ness which often grows up around the man who Is always the head of his class as Dewey was. He is ready to help the Republicans Republi-cans put the accent on youth and underline it heavily. Brownell fits Into that picture naturally and Dewey Dew-ey can be counted upon to match his own conduct with his years as far as vigor and energy go and he will probably be able to acquire the "hail-fellow" flavor for public relations. rela-tions. It is clear when you talk to Brownell Brown-ell that he Is all for the "wlm-and-wigger" type of electioneering. The Democrats know what to expect. They started a defensive-offensive on the need and wisdom and experience experi-ence in their convention speeches. They are going to try to prove that when the contestants weigh in. Democratic gray-matter will out-balance the red corpuscles and vitamins vita-mins which their opponents display and of which they will boast. As we waited to interview Brownell Brown-ell on that muggy Washington afternoon, after-noon, a flifure emerged who may have been exhibit A of the Republicans' Republi-cans' immortal pep. He was the man who nominated Taft for President Presi-dent so you can date him. He was former Sen. Jim Watson of Indiana (born 1863), not juvenile, but he hadn't lost his up-and-at-'em. "As Uncle Joe Cannon always used to advise me," Senator Jim allowed to all and sundry, " 'give 'em hell, boys!' " I asked Brownell later if the Republicans Re-publicans intended to campaign in "an unusual way," since the President Presi-dent had said he wouldn't campaign in the usual way. Brownell smiled and replied with a sentence the burden bur-den ef which was "energetic." However, a pean to youth will not be the only song in the Dewey-Bricker Dewey-Bricker repertoire. Mr. Bricker's ers In Pennsylvania. West Virginia, Ohio and Illinois (where Lewis' United Mine Workers are chiefly located) lo-cated) were strongly Republican and that editorial writers of the UMW periodicals and union leaders had noticed the trend and were following fol-lowing it. The "don't change horses" argument argu-ment will be met with arguments offered at the Republican convention, conven-tion, that there will be no change in the American high command, no interference with military leaders or their strategy and then, of course, there is the pious hope, too, that should the war in Europe end before be-fore the ides of November, the stream will be reduced to such a trickle that nobody will worry about a little leap from one saddle to another an-other saddle. How War Maps Are Made "A map is the foundation stone of any operation," says a long and precise document issued by the British Brit-ish Information service entitled, "Liberating a Continent Index to Invasion." I have had a little to do with the making of war maps myself and know that information that goes into such maps comes from many sources. Some of the data is as ancient an-cient as the hills that are depicted in the convolutions resulting from painstaking topographical surveys which show every three-foot rise. Some of the data, on the other hand, is so fresh from the fighting front itself that the maps upon which it is superimposed and furnished to officers of-ficers from the mobile lorry-borne photo-litho printing equipment in the fields are hardly dry. These field map-producing units can be set up and be ready to begin printing within with-in 20 minutes. They can make reproductions re-productions of maps with recent corrections on them and produce them in color at the rate of 4.500 copies an hour. |
