The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-02

remains to be seen. Meanwhile,
the nations Republican eyes are
looking to the Empire state, from
whence cometh their strength.
G. o. p. Gives Blessing.
Meeting in Chicago Immediately
after the New York city election,
members of the Republican national
committee unoff1cially placed their
blessing on Dewey as a young man
likely to go places. Among his
supporters are Representative Mar
tin of Massachusetts,, Col. R. B.
Creager of Texas, Daniel E. Pom
eroy of New Jersey and Mrs. Ralph
A. Harris of Kansas. Chairman
John Hamilton and Senator Borah
have been equally enthusiastic.
Others, quite logically, look upon
Mayor LaGuardia as good G. o. P.
presidential timber. But the little
flower" would not gather rural
votes like he gathers them in New
York. He is short, pudgy, outspok-
en-. He has an Italian name, which
falsely connects him with the Fas-
~cism he so roundly denounced in
his recent battle with Hitler. That
man of Fiorella LaGuardia's
strength and ability should suffer
because of these personal matters,
is indeed unfortunate. His Reform
administration has been just as
Messianic as Tom Dewey's racket
busting.
But whether it be Dewey or La
Guardia, the Republican party sees
its victory in New York's election
as noteworthy. Next years guber-
Material election looks favorable,
they say, with Tammany licked and
New Deal Democrats either sullen
or Indifferent But the undeniable
truth is that LaGuardia's remarka-
BILE victory is due in large part to
his alliance with the new Labor
party, an alliance which may or
may not function in the state cleo
ton.
He's Typically American.
Dewey's typical Americanism
should preclude the necessity of
such strange bedfellows as Labor
and the Republican party bunking
together in wholly unnatural
brotherhood. For Dewey is man
who-say his supporters-has the
background, family connections and
unsullied political record to insure
popularity.
He came from a family of editors,
his grandfather, George Martin,
having founded the Owosso Times
in 1887. Grandfather Dewey was
Vermont product, a third cousin of
the admiral who 'took" Manila
harbor. Tom Dewey's boyhood was
that of any other midwestern child,
part of it spent in his dads news
paper office. At the University of
Michigan he didn't join a fraternity
but was telegraph editor of the
Michigan Daily and made name
for himself in vocal work.
While studying music and law at
New York he met attractive Fran
ces Eileen HUT of Sherman, Texas,
a grandniece of the Confederacy's
Jefferson Davis. Miss HUT was a
mezzo contralto, and a good one.
She climaxed stage career by car
rying the prima donna role with
| George Whites Scandals in 1927.
Next year she married Dewey, who
by this time had permanently tabled
his operate ambitions in favor of
| the law.
Just as Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey are
typical Americans, so are their chill
dren, John Martin, two, and Thorn
as Edmund, Jr., five. They're the
kind of youngsters you'd like to be-
lieve represent cross-section of
Americas coming generation.
Whether he becomes a candidate
for governor or President, Tom
Dewey is probably destined to live
the rest of his days on the public
payroll. Right now, following a post
election rest in Bermuda with Mrs.
Dewey, he's planning big things for
the states attorneys Office.
The famous Singing school, will
be continued and in all probability
many more New York hoodlums
will receive vocal instruction from
its capable instructors. The prose
cutor's office will be open "a hours
day, every day in the year. Dew
ey's men will be ''riding the tail of
the police wagon" in his own
words, gathering evidence before
the criminals trail can cool.
Perhaps, by such tactics, the
Owosso "boy scout" can continue
the record he established as special
Observation-Disclosures of II of the
70 racketsers he brought to trial.
g Western Newspaper Union.