Show PAUL MALLON 1948 race Js Is like a pretzel THE HE political situation I 1 Is 3 like an pretzel you can see the curves up bonow to now plainly enough but where the dough maze will wind up nobody knows dewey dewcy went out tomake to make character in the west from new with 98 96 convention delegates he went out to the six delegate states nott not to gather ogather party votes as a popularly supposed but chiefly to gather a 10 gallon political disposition candidates often make the same trek for the same purpose at this stage it If dewey went after delegates he should dhave have come down to washington Ing tonto to see the republicans in both houses of congress this Is where the delegates are senator matin martin has the 76 or so from pennsylvania in an inside pocket senators tatt taft and bricker could tell dewey about ohio and probably also indiana and illinois although it might not be anything dewey wants to hear speaker martin could issue massachusetts and probably all Ne new england like script harold stassen could tell him about minnesota and perhaps iowa wherry about neb NeV baldwin about connecticut and so on dewey could take a pencil and paper come to washington at much less railroad fare and ascertain hp he lacks a majority of delegates without favorite son support he might win a few primaries next spring and show some strength this is what he is figuring on they say in which case the boys boy might come up to his backroom bac kroom at albany so while dewey is supposed to bo be making a runaway rade race out of it no one will predict where he goes from here taft is going west himself ard and will identify himself while there as the only prominent opponent of dewey to ta date |