Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-03
Dewey's Siren Voice
Cuts Into Hopes Of
Lehman Forces
PoIitico-CriminoI Issue
RoIlyine Votes to
6. O. P. Cause
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
Star Stan Correspondent.

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If there is any glamour in this gu
bernatorial election, the Republicans
have the benefit of 1t. For, good
Governor as he has been, Herbert H.
Lehman is not glamorous person.
After the Democrats had per-
suaded Gov. Lehman, at the Demo-
cratic State Convention in Septem-
Der, to seek reelection, they shook
hands with themselves and said the
election was in the bag. AS the race
swings into the home stretch, they
have revised their early view that
Lehman would walk away from
Dewey. Particularly is this true in
view Of the strides which Dewey has
made upstate, the old Republican
stronghold.
Newspaper and other polls, testing
sentiment for and against Dewey,
show him breaking even, or perhaps
little better, with Gov. Lehman.
Democratic leaders rub their eyes
and say they don't believe these
polls. Betting odds have been forced
down from 3l2 to l to to S, with
Lehman on the long end.
VitaHzed POlitico- Criminal Issue.
In addition to DeWey's PERSONAL
ity and his newness, he has an issue;
he is against crime, and particularly
against the hookup Of the under
world with the politicians. It's diff
cult to get any voter to admit he Is
for crime or for politico- criminals
Dewey has vitalized the issue by put
ling lot of racketeering criminals
behind the bars and posecuting some
Tammany politicians. So his issue
is hot off the griddle and popular.
He wants, he says, to stamp out the
link between crime and the political
machines in Buffalo and Albany and
other upstate cities as well as in
New York City. To do it, he insists,
he must sit in the Governors chair,
not just the chair of the district at
terney of New York County, the
Borough of Manhattan, his present
Office.
To show how deeply this issue
has cut into the sensitiveness of
the Democratic leaders, it is only
necessary to say that they are now
accusing Dewey himself of having
been 1.-The mouthpiece Of swindlers"
during his private law practice in
1885 Postmaster General James A.
Farley, chairman of the Democratic
National Committee and chairman
of the Democratic State Commit
tee, unleashed such a statement
against Dewey yesterday.
Points to Court Records.
Farley said in part:
THE records of the Federal Court
in the Borough of Manhattan,
where Dewey is now district attor-
ney, show that he personally repre-
sented conspirators who connived
and nearly succeeded in foisting
scheme for the sale of millions of
shares of the worthless stock of
the Eurydice Gold Mining Co. to
the public, a typical gold brick, blue
sky swindle."
And at another point in his state
lnent Mr.. Farley said: How easily
Dewey wears the shabby cloak
labeled Republican Righteousness.
He conceals his own close political
connection with George z. Medalie,
the mouthpiece for Arnold Roth
stein, the murdered gambler, and the
Legs Diamond of hotsy-totsy muir
der case fame and others of the
same ilk."
The Dewey camp simply ignored
MI. Farley's statement; did not dig
nifty it with reply. Privately,
Dewey supporters said that such
charges had been made against Mr..
Dewey by the Tammany leaders
when Dewey was running last year
against Hastings, Democratic and
Tammany nominee for district at
torney, whom Dewey defeated.
Trained Voice as Singer.
Dewey IN action is something to
warm the hearts of the G. O. P.
which has been looking longingly
for a candidate who could stand
up on his hind legs and talk. A
trained singer with a baritone voice
TO which he looked for livelihood
before he tackled law, he knows
now to speak. He is entirely self
possessed, gives the impression of
knowing just what he wants to say
and Of having the courage to say
and do. There is nothing amateur
ish about him on the stump.
journeyed out to the Bronx last
night to see and hear Mr.. Dewey
make his first speech as he tackles
Greater New York, where he will
campaign until election next Tues
day. The auditorium of the Con-
course Plaza was damned with men
and women. The Bronx is Demo-
cratic stronghold. Some of those
present may have come out of Curl
oslty to see the much-discussed
Dewey. The crowd gave him a
great hand, however, both before,
during and at the close of his ad-
dress.
And what a speech! 1t NAV make
some OF the Old Guard Republicans
gasp, for it sounded like nothing ever
put forward before in this part of
the country by Republican candi-
date. His subject was the public
utilities and he tramped up and
down Gov. Lehman's back because
during the years he has been in
office he has not been able to bring
lower electric power rates for the
people of New York.
I'm each Of the last four cam
paigns my opponent has told the
people he has brought them cheap
electricity" said Dewey He stands
on his record. Let's take a look at
the record now. The astonishing
fact today is that New York is one of
the nine most backward States of
America in getting cheap electricity
for its people.
THE measure of victory is your
electric light bills" said Dewey. A
typical family in New York City US
ing just enough electricity to light
few rooms and make the morning
toast, he said, pays s241 month for
its electricity. while similar fam
lily in Chicago pays only s1.94, in