Show FOURTH ESTATE editors polled america americas s weekly newspaper edi tors the still small voices from the grass roots would make har old stassen of minnesota their per bonal choice as the republican publican Be pres identical ident ial candidate in 1948 accord ing to a straw poll conducted by publishers auxiliary newspaper publication devoted to the weekly field of journalism at the same time with laudable objectivity the tha editors expressed their belief that gov thomas E dewey of new york would be the one to receive the GOP bid president truman as virtually the only conceivable democratic candidate was chosen by the edi edl tors for that party a nomination they also conceded overwhelming ly that the democratic delegation would give him the nod at the na lional convention next year publishers auxiliary distributed ballots to country weekly edi tors in 48 states and tabulated the k 1 ITLO results on the basis of corn com plated ballots representing a 43 6 per cent return although the straw poll contacted a R representative section of small town editorial opinion its results cannot be held entirely conclusive because of the unknown quantities present at the time it was conduct ed california is gov earl warren had not yet declared his candidacy tor for the republican nomination and the macarthur sentiment was was bare ly a ripple according to the election forecast section of the poll 36 9 per cent of the editors believe president tru man will be re elected 21 9 per cent think dewey will be the next chief of state 12 4 per cent favor eisen hower bower 9 5 per cent have confidence in taft and 5 4 per cent believe stassen will be elected editors polled were predominant ly republican A GOP candidate was named as personal choice by 66 7 per cent and a democrat by 30 per cent |