Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-04
Dewey Victory Seen
Boosting Chances as
Presidential Choice
Margin Neors 800, 900;
Poletti Hos Leud, but
Outcome Is in Doubt

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. AFTER 20
lean years the Republican party
held the dominant position in
New York State politics today
with the election of Thomas E.
Dewey to the governorship in a
sweep which enhanced his
chances for the 1914 Republican
presidential nomination.
The 40-year-old lawyer from
Owosso. Mich, who rose to ma
tional prominence as the destroyer
of New Pork City rackets, rode
100000 Republican vote tide to de-
feat State Attorney General John
j. Bennett, jr., Democrat, who had
q White House Endorsement.
A corollary of the virtual Republic
can landslide was the possible politi-
cal eclipse of former Democratic
National Chairman James A. Farley,
who successfully beat down presi-
dental opposition to obtain Mr..
BENEFITS nomination and then di-
rected the Democratic campaign.
President Roosevelt had urged
the nomination of Senator Mead.
Alfange Far Behind.
Returns from 9,O95 of the States
e,327 districts gave Dewey 2,063, 322;
Bennett, 1.484.886. and Dean
Alfange, American Labor party can
didate. 399, 1893.
It was the first time since Nathan
L. Miller beat Alfred Smith for a
two-year term as Governor In 1920
that the Democrats had been ousted
from leadership in Albany and the
defeat was even more bitter in the
face of Mr.. Dewey's humping
plurality.
With all of New York City's dis
tricts reporting, 1t. Gov. Charles
Poletti, Democratic incumbent, went
ahead of Republican Thomas w.
Wallace by q scant 10000 votes, but
the 431 districts in the State still
not reported were in the normally
Republican upstate region.
Other Republicans Win.
Other Republican candidates ON
the State ticket - for attorney
general and State controller-ap-
peared to have been swept into office
with Mr.. Dewey.
In the additionally Republican
upstate counties-where Republic
can candidates normally must draw
support sufficient to offset the usual
Democratic pluralities of New York
City-Mr. Dewey polled- over 662 900
votes more than his opponent and
lost New York by only about IS ,0O0
The American Labor party vote
was about 4O0, 900, and even had the
party followed its previous policy of
indorsing the Democratic candidate,
1t could not have swung the election
to Mr.. Bennett. However, State ALP
Secretary Alex Rose asserted that
had the Democrats nominated
candidate acceptable to the Labor
party, that candidates election
would have been assured.
Dewey Ulges Total War"
In 1898 the Labor party vote of
more than 400, 1000 went to Herbert
H. Lehman, who defeated Mr.. Dewey
by narrow margin.
Representative Fish, Republican,
who attracted Nationwide attention
as a frequent administration critic
and advocate of isolationism before
the war, won reelection from the
Hudson River district in which is
President Roosevelt's Hyde Park
estate.
One of Mr.. Dewey's first actions
after victory was to issue a state
ment calling on Americans to re-
double the Nations efforts for
total, uncompromising, crushing
victory over our country's enemies"
Mr.. Dewey said during the CAM
paign that he would serve four
years as Governor if elected.
When he issued his statement
reporters asked him If he thought
he would make good Governor.
I'll have to let the people judge
that after four years. he said.
-Four years." some one asked.
That's what I said," Dewey re-
piled emphatically,