Show WHERE DEWEY IS WEAK dewey la credited with saying in connection with as a candidate tor president that platforms for parties are not made by candidates for the high office of president it be means by this that any platform Is good bough nough without regard to the candidates private convictions he Is himself to be a politician ot the old school which held that platforms were made to get into office on and then be discarded the act of the maiber seems to be that dewey has no strong convictions on the great political questions of the day and he does not know whether he is a democrat or republican greater than any man are the issues before the american people the welfare ot people is a thing ot greater importance than Is the question shall dewey be president and with the people divided in to two political par ties contending for radically different economic policies the heroism of a man becomes an insignificant consideration in the proper solution of the problems presented which are fraught with so much weal or woe tor america there are excellent traits of character in dewey but what guarantee are they that his judgment on the great economic questions before the citizenship of this land will be equal in intelligence telli gence to any one of ten thousand leading men in the country who of late years have given close cludy to the merits of both sides of the controversies that have stirred the nation to its foundation we do not see much danger to mc Kin leys candidacy in deleys deweys ambition or rather the ambition of hia tor the forces back of his boom which have lent their aid to the mclean family are undoubtedly headed by german the acknowledged head of that great body of democrats in the east who have tor their motto anything to win their scheme contemplates the supplanting of bryan by dewey and in that manner eliminating the silver issue so objectionable to the gold democrats it the republicans desire to play sharp politics they have an excellent opportunity by helping along deleys deweys boom they may cause a big split in the kansas city convention which may lead the dewey faction smarting under defeat to name him as an independent democratic candidate which would naturally be his position after being forced to declare himself a democrat before the kansas city body with dewey running as the candidate of the gold democrats and the republicans united the political prophet who dared predict bryans election would be committed to an asylum for the cure of hallucinations |