Evening star., 1938-09-29
NEW YORK c. 0. P.
CHOOSES DEWEY
Prosecutor Is Nominated by
ACcIamati0n as Choice
for Governorship.
BY the Associated Press


SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y, Sept.
29.-Thomas E. Dewey, Manhattan's
36-year-old racket-busting prosecutor
was nominated by acclamation by the
Republican State Convention today e..
the partys candidate for Governor.
The convention previously had
adopted platform built around Dis
trict Attorney Dewey's record as prose
cutor
The declaration of State policy con-
tanned a pledge for complete elm
nation Of the alliance between the
underworld and certain forms OF poll
TICS" system condemned as q men
ace"
The platform also includes q pro-
test against the use of Federal re-
lief funds for political purposes" and
urges Republican Congressman to do
all in their power to keep this coun-
try at peace"
War Scare an Issue.
Earlier the party was turning the
European war scare into a talking
point to urge election of a strong and
militant Republican minority in the
next Congress.
The subject was broached byvaepre-
sentative Bruce Barton of New York
yesterday in his keynote speech TO the
convention. Other Republican leaders
charged with the Nation wide drive for
the election Of their partisans to the
next Congress are talking about it in
the same way. s-s
What Mr.. Barton said was:
THE menace Of armed dictatorship
in Europe is greater than it ever was,
with the same grave danger that We
may again be involved.
AT such q time OF crisis It Is ire
mendously important to have q well
balanced Congress-that is, q Congress
with q strong minority party.
The function Of the minority is to
make sure that the administration
gives the people all the facts, that nc
vital move is made unless there has
been free and full debate, that no wave
OF hysteria is allowed to sweep the
country of its feet.
Every additional Republican SEN
ator or Congressman elected this fall is
one more vote against any hasty action
that might lead America toward war II
Not long afterward Representative
Martin Of Massachusetts,. chairman OF
the Republican Congressional Cam
paign Committee, came to town with
the prediction that the Republicans
would gain 80 seats in the fall cleo
tions. In a burst of optimism he told
the State convention they might re-
gain control Of the, House Of Repre-.
sentatives. There aren't enough SEN
ate seats at stake for them to take
that over.
Mr.. Martin said the Barton argu-
ment was being adapted to national
campaign strategy.
Gains in Midwest Seen.
He mentioned two other top issues
which, he said, tour of the Middle
West convinced him were influencing
votes. One was the farm problem
the other relief. But the chief OF
these was relief and its twin, unem-
ployment.
THE people are beginning to think
that the administration has had long
enough to do something about these
problems" Mr.. Martin said.
1T has had six years, has spent
billions of dollars and there still are
just as many persons out of jobs n
there were in 1892"
He said the principal gains he ex-
pected the Republicans to make woule
be in Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio
Indiana, Pennsylvania and New York
but declined to mention specific dis.
tricts or to match States and numbers