Show 1 ConFident C Republic a ns Choose Dewey Dewey- W carre T Tm or 1948 By WALTER VALTER A. A SHEAD Washington n Correspondent Bowling PHILADELPHIA Bowling over a all opposition in an unchecked power drive toward the coveted goal of 5 4 votes Governor Thomas E. E Dewey c of New York swept to victory on th the tho third ballot at the Republican National Nations Convention After a night of speculation on vice vice- presidential candidates which in Included inI in- in eluded the names of Charles Halleck Hailed I of Indiana Senator John BrIcker o of I Ohio Governor Warren was put forth fort as the Dewey choice for the post Governor Earl Warren governor o of California was nominated to the vice vice- presidency by acclamation after Arizona ArI- ArI zona had withdrawn the name o of Harold E E. E Stassen Actually the colorful New Yorkers Yorker's nomination came by unanimous vote vot after he had demonstrated unprecedented unprecedented unprecedented strength on the first ballot over six other contenders for the nomination Governor Dewey polled police votes on the first ballot to for foi Senator Robert A. A A Taft of Ohio hi l his s nearest competitor with former Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Harold Herold E. E Stassen trailing in ti third place with votes Senator Vandenburg of Michigan gan polled 62 Senator Raymond Baldwin of Conk Connecticut Con Con- iZ k 19 Speaker Joe Martin of ol Massachusetts 18 Carroll Reese ofa of ol I Io o a r 8 Tennessee chairman of the GOP national committee 15 General of ol f the Army Douglas McArthur 11 Governor DwIght Green of Illinois is r- r 56 Governor Alfred E E. E Driscoll of ol it New dew Jersey 35 Governor Earl War War- 1 ren jen of California 59 59 and Congressman Congress Congress- c man Everett M. M Dirksen of Illinois 1 r Although it was evident that Governor Governor Gov Gov- i Deweys Dewey's s 's managers were shoot- shoot t. t Zing ling the works for a bandwagon drive his coalition opponents failed to take J. faction action and the second ballot saw him himi cy i gain 81 scattering votes while Senator it Taft gained 50 from Illinois and Stassen lost los eight with the others still trailing With Deweys Dewey's total standing at only 33 short of a majority Governor James Duff of Pennsylvania made the first move to stop the parade when he offered a motion to recess the theY i convention His motion was seconded r I r Y r- r i I E by Congressman Clarence Brown of rr Ohio Senator Tafts Taft's campaign manager manager man man- a ager alter and after the New York delea delegation dele dele- a r gation gatlon offered no objection Speaker j I. I Martin the convention chairman f gavelled the motion through over a n t I chorus chor of noes Governor Dewey won the nomination nomina nomina- I tion Uon because he had the best organs organs- because his opposition underestimated underestimated underestimated under under- estimated his strength and despite Ithe the fact it broke a Republican party precedent of never having nominated a losing candidate The two-time two nominee he was the party's standard bearer in 1944 was given a tremendous ovation when he heI I came into the convention accompanied accompanIed accompanied by his personable wife His nomination came swiftly after SenaI Senator Sena- Sena I tor John Bricker of Ohio had withdrawn withdrawn with- with drawn Senator Tafts Taft's name and I Stassen had himself gone to the 31 i P tY Ml k f o rJ GOV GOY EARL WARREN platform to withdraw in favor of Dewey They were quickly followed by Governor Warren of California I and the others Governor Dewey told the delegates he accepted the nomination unfettered unfettered unfettered un fettered by a single obligation or promise to any living person person His acceptance speech which evidently had been prepared in advance since it was delivered in mimeograph form to the press before he made it was on a high plane of a spiritual upsurge Our problem he said Is most of all spiritual Our problem is not outside ourselves Our problem is within ourselves we have devised noble plans for a new world Without Without Without With With- out a new spirit our noblest plans will come to naught gr s A L lY t 49 Jj S' S t Sl fr THOMAS E. E DEWEY VEY Delve Dewey DelVey 1 In n Center 0 Of Early Activity Governor Dewey came into the convention convention convention con con- as the leading lending candidate with approximately votes pledged to him on the first ballot and possibly some 50 to 75 votes as a reserve upon which he could count aft after r favorite son candidates had been moved out of the picture The New York governors governor's managers decided however after they failed to improve the governors governor's position position position tion In the first two days of the convention convention convention con con- to shoot the works on the first ballot in an effort to start a bandwagon bandwagon bandwagon band band- wagon stampede of delegates for the New Yorker The Th maneuver clever in many instances became known kno as the Dewey blitz bIltz It had one effect however it united the other leading candidates in a move to stop Dewey Senator Robert Robert Robert Rob Rob- ert A A. A Taft of Ohio second man with some 50 or more delegates on the first ballot and former Governor Harold E E. E Stassen of Minnesota with some delegates along with the Connecticut state chairman Governor Kem Kern Sigler of Michigan and some other delegate leaders held a meeting at which they canvassed the situation and decided that Mr Dewey did not have the votes he claimed Further the Dewey blitz bIltz brought Senator Arthur Vandenburg from out of his cocoon as a horse dark-horse and into the picture as an active candidate to tobe tobe tobe be nominated on the first roll call caU of the states First show-down show was a split in the Pennsylvania Pennsyl delegation of 73 votes resulting in the withdrawal of Pennsylvania's Pennsylvania's Pennsylvania's Penn Penn- sylvania's Senator Edward Martin as asa asa asa a favorite son candidate in favor of Governor Dewey throwing roughly half of the delegation to the New Yorker This did not change the picture picture pIcture pic pIc- ture in the total vote however since it meant only that the other half of the Keystone state delegation controlled controlled controlled con con- trolled by Governor James J. J Duff would go to Senator Vandenburg on the first ballot Instead of waiting until untila a later ballot Then the Missiouri delegation split with Senator James P. P Kem Kern of that state going to Governor Dewey with his following of the delegation and Senator Forrest Donnell DonneIl holding out for Senator Taft with th his Misouri delegates Governor Alfred E. E Driscoll Dris- Dris Driscoll Driscoll coll of New Jersey who had been flirting with the Vandenburg candidacy candidacy candidacy candi candi- dacy for several weeks v then pulled into the Dewey camp with his vote 35 delegation Up to this point before the balloting started Governor Dewey had reached the peak of his claimed strength Confident Spirit Highlights Sessions Until the demonstrations for candidates candidates candidates can can- started the wild and session which lasted long into Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day night there had be been bean n little enthusiasm enthusiasm en enthusiasm en- en and actually small smaIl crowds attending the convention There was wasai ai ar air of tenseness and responsibility about these delegates which did not lend itself to hilarity or play horse-play to any large degree These delegates gathered here were all convinced they were naming the next President of the United States that 1948 1918 is a asure asure sure sore winner for the tho Republican party part The best demonstration up to the roll call of states came when Herbert Hoover former president and GOP GOE elder cIder statesman was escorted to the tho platform by Al All Alf Landon of Kansas the 1936 nominee Mr Hoover was given a 16 minute demonstration n and he made a sturdy if aged picture there with the lights beaming upon him Foreign Aid Plank Features Platform Plat Highlight of the 1948 GOP platform and and- chief bone of contention in sessions sessions sessions ses ses- of the resolutions committee was the foreign relations plank The out all approval however of the European European European Euro Euro- recovery program and support of the United Nations was a cut clear-cut victory for Senator Arthur Vandenburg Vandenburg Vanden Vanden- burg of Michigan and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr of Massachusetts the chairman of the resolutions com com- While ERP was not mentioned by name the platform plank was clear and strong The platform was inclusive all-inclusive covering the field of domestic issues including conservation of natural re resources resources resources re- re sources farm price supports economy In government against high prices abolition of useless government bureaus maintenance of an adequate armed service for sea land and air reduction of the federal debt and taxes elimination of monopoly to aid small business a sound soil conservation conservation conservation conser conser- program development of sound farm credit encouragement of family- family sized farms progressive development of the nations nation's water resources for navigation flood control and power a comprehensive reclamation program recognition of the nations nation's obligation to all veterans and a realistic and adequate adequate adequate ade ade- quate adjustment of benefits housing by private enterprise at lower costs but federal aid for local slum clearance clearance clearance clear clear- ance and rental low-rental housing extension extension exten exten- sion Ion of the federal old age and survivors survivor's insurance program and Increase increase in In- In crease of the benefits to a more realistic realistic realistic real real- level strengthening of state-aid state programs to provide more adequate hospital facilities to improve methods of treatment of the mentally ill to advance maternal and child health The civil rights platform plank Included an lynching anti law Jaw abolition of the poll tax as a requisite for voting opposition to racial segregation in the tho armed services and equality of all aU individuals individuals individuals indi indi- in their right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness happiness happiness happi happi- ness ri right ht to equal opportunity to work vork and to advance ance in life lIfo not limited because of race re religion religion re- re ligion color or country of origin The platform also pledged new legislation against communism revision revision revision sion of the procedure for election of president and vice-president vice to more exactly reflect the popular vote This plank referred to the Lodge constitutional constitutional constitutional revision resolution to change the vote procedure of the electoral college Equal rights for women equal pay for equal work regardless of sex educational opportunities for alland all nIl alland nIland and giving title of tideland oil lands to the states completed the document |