Evening star., 1938-09-28
DEWEY IS HOPE
OF REPUBLICANS
GubernatoriaI Nomination Is
Expected to Be Forced
Upon Him.
By JAY G, HAYDEN.

SHSu ssUsS
BY JAY G. HAYDEN.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (N.A.NA)-
A political drama, which in its final
denouement may vitality influence both
major party presidential nominations
in 1910, began to unfold as Repub-
hcans Of New York State conversed on
Saratoga Springs for their convention,
which begins Wednesday, with every
intention of forcing their guberna-
torial nomination on Thomas e.
Dewey.
At Rochester on Thursday New
York Democrats open . convention in
which President Roosevelt's control Of
that party in his home State Is largely
In the balance.
Since his election Is district attor-
ney in overwhelmingly Democratic
Manhattan Borough in 1887, the po-
Atical star OF Mr.. Dewey has been
steadily rising until today he stands
rs the Republican white hope not only
In New York but in the Nation. His
election as Governor this year would
Immediately place him in the forefront
Of Republican presidential possibilities,
just Is happened in the Democratic
party when Franklin D. Roosevelt was
elected to the same ONCE in 1928.
Vote-Getting Proven.
Reason for the belief of practical
politicians in Mr.. Deweys political
destiny Is not hard to discover. New
York City traditionally has been heav-
lily Democratic, whereas the remainder
Of the State usually has gone Repub-
ncan. Hence the opinion has grown
that any Republican State candidate
who holds the opposition plurality in
the city below 500, 1000 will win. Re-
publican political leaders believe that
Mr.. Dewey, by piling up a plurality Of
100 900 in Manhattan last November,
demonstrated . vote-setting power In
the city that would make him un-
beatable in . Statewide election.
It is cited In this connection that
even in the 1896 Democratic landslide
Gov. Herbert H. Lehman ran 405 5,l56
votes behind his Republican opponent
upstate, but won because he piled
up city plurality in excess Of 900, 900.
Dewey's supporters confidently predict
that he will hold the city plurality Of
any man the Democrats may nomi-
nate below 100000 and that he will
also make better showing upstate
than any Republican gnbernatorial
nominee In recent years.
Wagner Refuses Contest.
The Democratic 1898 outlook in
New York. confused from the begin
ming, became more 20 this week when
Senator Robert F. wagner formally
announced that he would refuse to
forsake his senatorial seat to take on
the job Of contesting against Mr.
Dewey for the governorship. Now the
Democrats are making strenuous
effort to persuade Gov. Lehman to
abandon his announced candidacy for
the senatorial seat, vacated by death
Of Royal 3. Copeland, and accept re-
nomination for . fourth guhsrnatorial
term. but with seemingly scant pros-
pect that 0ov. Lehman willsso Yield.
Tincturing the whole Democratic
situation Is the possibility that Mr..
Roosevelt will seek 4 third term in
1910. More than . year ago Gov.
Leh1nan broke with Mr.. Roosevelt
over the proposal to enlarge the su-
preme Court, and the coldness be-
tween these two has increased since
that time. Mr.. Roosevelt angered
Tammany Hall when he failed to
come to support Of its mayoral cam
didate. jeremiah T. Mahoney, last No.
vember. The latter contest also sig
nAlised break between Tammany
and the American Labor party, which
was organized to mop up radical ele-
ments In support OF Mr.. Roosevelt In
1896.
Not Much Concerned.
Neither Mr.. Lehman nor Tammany,
as it appears, is much concerned rs
to how the election developments this
year may affect Mr.. Roosevelt's pres
uge. The President originally ad-
vanced Robert H. jackson, present So
licitor general, for gubernatorial NOM
inaticn, but he was promptly rejected
by the State Democratic leaders, and
10 was w. p. A. Administrator Harry
L. Hopkins, who latterly was suggested
by the White House.
The dominant leaders of the State
Democratic organization want a can
didate who can win. They would like
one who could hold the American labor
support. But, even more, they are
IN quest Of a candidate who will play
ball with them in the presidential
convention Of 1910, when they may or
may not be in harmony with Mr..
Roosevelt. Other than Gov. Lehman
and Senator Wagner, the candidates
principally suggested for Democratic
gubernatorial nomination are Repre-
sentative James M. Mead and State
Controller Morris Tremaine, both Of
Buffalo, and Attorney General John
j. Bennett Of Brooklyn, but each of
these has serious points Of weak
ness.
Mr.. Bennett and Mr.. Tremaine are
unacceptable to the American la
borites. and Mr.. Bennett is objected
to also because it was his failure to
proceed against the racketeers in New
York City that led to the appoint
ment Of Mr.. Dewey as q special prose-
cutor by Gov. Lehman. Mr.. Mead
has been promised American labor sup
port, but he is comparatively little
known outside Of his own congressional
district, and there is little in his con-
gressional record other than an un-
deviating support Of proposals ad-
nnced by organized labor to recon-
mend him for the governorship.
(copsrisht, 1888. By the North Amsriesn
Newspaper Alliance, Ine.)
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