Show Legal efficiency make Dewey sure bet EDITOR'S Realizing the importance of activities to every thinking the is inaugurating a series of articles dealing with political conventions and party Opinions expressed by the writers Ho not necessarily represent the views of the editor or By LYMAN BRADFORD The cliches are piling higher and the price Of baloney is falling lower as the presidential campaign starts to lurch and Everybody is I'm responsible and you're a I'm a liberal and you're a But through it certain things For Wallace's party of dreamers and malcontents has no chance for It will cop some votes from the Republicans and many more from the and will make a lot of For Truman has little chance of thanks to his failure to fit the magic cape of He has signed up a group of amateur advisors outstanding for their faults of logic and political and his own mental powers are far from sufficient for the important work a president Finally the Republicans are nearly certain to take over in On the campus today you've got to put up 5 to win 2 if you want And there are almost no Dewey has many natural Primary is the brilliant efficiency of the man and of his political Another is his excellent record in New York The boys at Philadelphia cried like babies and shouted the loser's when Dewey pulled the famous Martin coup in Pennsylvania and when he snapped up such big slices of the Massachusetts and New Jersey But that corny phrase didn't mean anything the professional Dewey machine had simply been too strong and too smart for the other clubs in the Quaker And they weren't able to take their beating with their mouths It was a pointed show of terrific timing and he was The choice of Warren of the West was geographically And better still was the propaganda that the v. p. spot would be built up into a with the of is But it looks And there is no doubt that Warren will have a good deal more to do with running the government than or Wallace did during the reign of Roosevelt It will still be Dewey all the way take him or leave him and people who want the government to be run more like a machine than a menagerie will put an X next to T. D. The common man the good politically stupid guy who has never rung a doorbell or passed a handbill says he will vote for the with complete faith that if his man gets in the nation will be for another four He doesn't realize that the isn't the government that the winner will take into office with him an entirely new slate of You don't vote just for Truman or you vote for the loyal Democratic hacks or Republicans of the same But there is good evidence in New York state at Dewey values and efficiency above blind party It is agreed in nearly every quarter that Dewey's New York administration has been amazing in its He has gathered aggressive men and women from all over the state and even from outside it to help him make things Dewey gives a prize for I. and in these is And his administration is based on the constitution's He has a strict legal mind which brings up a rather gay little Feeble Drew Pearson commented the other day his usual snide that certain big political names have actual sympathy for and but who's state is the only one with a fair employment thinks of the races only from a legal point of That in turn brings up the What counts sympathy or The minorities of New York and elsewhere are certainly pragmatic enough to prefer an actual employment law that works to a vague repetition of sympathetic The Republicans for years have posed as the friends of the but have done nothing but send condolences by way of party But here comes that calculating Dewey a hard says Pearson with nothing to show but the best record in the And he's liable to make the Republican congress produce some living civil rights That's just an example of what to expect of the cool little man from Albany and his good natured friend from That and many others are the reasons why a vote for Dewey and Warren will be a vote wisely |