Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-08
Washington Observations
Dewey Eager to Enter 6. O. P Frey;
Ruth Simms to Be One of Field MurshuIs

of the group that stands with Frank
E. Gannett,. the Rochester publisher,
who Is conducting an active and re-
putedly lavishly upholstered up
state campaign for New York dele
gates. Nassau County Leader j.
Russell Sprague probably comes
nearer being the present Dewey po-
litical generalissimo than any one
else.
Mark Hanna's Daughter for Dewey.
An eminent Republican woman
leader of national renown, Ruth
Hanna Mccormick Simms of New
Mexico has identified herself actively
with the Dewey high command at
New York. The daughter of Mark
Hanna and widow of Senator Medill
Mccormick of Illinois, now the wife
OF former Representative Albert G..
Simms, an Albuquerque banker, will
become one of the Dewey campaigns
field marshals as soon as 1t Is for
mally in the open. Herself former
Representative at large from ILL
nois and onetime candidate for the
Senate. Ruth Simms bears name
and has political background that
will give the New Workers. cause
instant and widespread prestige.
She is one of the owners of the
Chicago Tribune.
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Speeches Will Disclose Views.
Even Tom Dewey's political init
mates are not aware Of precisely the
line" he intends to take in his
forthcoming beans-spilling activities
before a coast-to-coast radio audi
ence. Intervening developments at
home or abroad may dictate course
OF action not yet determined. Should
President Roosevelt presently, as
some Washington authorities ex-
pect, lift the veil on the third-term
mystery, that, for instance, might
alter the tone or terms of DeWey's
opening blast. He will, of course,
it is tacitly admitted, burn no in
cense before the New Deal, though
he's not expected, either, to riddle
1t from stem to stern as utterly I'M
worthy Of the peoples confidence.
He will, 1t may be taken for granted,
pursue the same general line of
argument on national issues, which
figured to certain extent in his
all but successful campaign for the
gOvernorship of New York a wear
ago this month, when he came with
in a hairs breadth of defeating Gov.
Lehman and brought out a Republi-
can vote which restores the G. o. P.
once more to the status of the top
vote-getter in the Unions biggest
State. Dewey. his friends say, will
concentrate, as to the New Deal, on
the things it has failed to accom-
plish, on things it should never have
tried to accomplish and on things
which he believes can be accom-
pllshed, if approached from another
angle. There will be no doubt that
ne appeals to the country as lib
eral. The elephants youthful white
hope acknowledges, as do many Re-
publican leaders, that Franklin D.
Roosevelt's six and one-half years in
Office have by no means been de-
void Of substantial results for the
national good. Nor, because of that
record, would Dewey underrate the
strength of Roosevelt even as
third-term aspirant.
X
As to Youth and Inexperience.
Dewey adherents realize that the
main obstacles they have to over
come Is the district attorneys
youth and lack of national and
international background. Their
rebuttal is that the district at
torney should be judged by his own
past achievements in public office.
These have given him fame and
grip on the popular Imagination
such as few purely wide fig
ures had on the eve of presiden-
tial nominating convention. Dewey.
as matter of fact, is not a COM