Show PAUL MALLON 1948 race Is like a pretzel THE HE political cai situation Is shaping up like an guntern pretzel you can see the curves up to now plainly enough but where the dough maze maza will windup wind up nobody knows dewey went out to make character in the west from new toft with 98 90 convention delegates he be went out to the six delegate states not to gather party votes as popularly supposed but chief ly to gather si a 10 gallon political disposition candidates often make the same trek for the same purpose at this stage if dewey went alter after delei delegates ates he should have come down to washington to see the republicans in both houses of congress this Is where the delegates are 1 senator martin has the 76 or so from Pennsyl pennsylvania vanla in an inside pocket senators tatt taft and bricker could tell dewey about ohio and probably also indiana and mols illinois although it might not be anything dewey wants to hear bear speaker martin could issue massachusetts and probably all new england like script harold stassen could tell him about minnesota and perhaps iowa wherry about nebraska baldwin about connecticut and so on dewey could take a pencil and paper come to washington at much less railroad tare fare and ascertain he lacks a majority of 0 delegates without favorite son support he might win a few primaries next spring and show some strength this Is what he Is figuring disfiguring on they say in which case the boys might come up to his backroom bac kroom at albany so while dewey Is supposed to be malting making a runaway race out of it no one will predict where he be goes from here taft Is going west himself and will identify himself while there as the only prominent opponent of dewey to t date |