Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-30
New Dealers
Willing to
Elect Dewey
Their Actions Dubious.
Arithmetics Simpler
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

campaign.
You don't always understand
their motives plainly from their
actions, and in this case you sort
of have TO sniff them out.
Everybody knows that Presi-
dent Roosevelt knows that John
Bennett, the incumbent attor-
ney general, and the Demo-
cratic nom inee against Tom
Dewey, is not a New Dealer.
In particular. he is anti-Com-
munist and this means that he
is opposed TO lot of New
Yorks New Dealers who are
Communists. or fellow travellers.
The President spared from
his war effort the time and
energy to try to lick Bennett in
the Democratic state conven-
ton.
Bennett is known as Jim Far
ley's man, but that is not fair
way to speak of him. 1t is UNI
fair, because there is a note of
disparagement in the expression.
1t suggests that he is not his
own man Bennett could be
fairly called a Farley man, how
ever.
BARLEY accepted TIE Presi-
L dents challenge, looked him
dead in the eye and stood toe
to-toe in a political smuggling
match which wound up in a de-
feat for Mr.. Roosevelt.
There is just no other way
about it. They met and Farley
won.
Then the little political club
known as the American Labor
party held a convention in a tel
ephone booth and nominated an
unidentified man named Dean
Alfange, who is Tammany
Democrat.
Mayor LaGuardia and Dave
Dubinsky. the president of the
International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, are out in sup
port Of Alfange, who probably
won't poll more than a nickel's
worth of votes, but all he does
poll will be filched from Bennett.
Nobody-least of all Alfange
himself-has any notion that he
will run up vote and they all
know his candidacy is serving no
purpose but to cut down Bennett
and assist the Republican, Mr..
Dewey, to get elected.
TT TOOK the President about
Il six weeks after the conven-
ton to indorse Bennett and that
Endorsement was so cold that
Bennett came down with chill
blainS.
Since then President Roose-
welt has had to warm it up
little bit and this he did in his
unqualified Endorsement a few
days ago.
However, Bennett and Farley
and the whole public heard him
the first time.
Bennett and Farley have no
reason to feel either gratitude or
obligation and any voters who
are turned against Bennett by
the Presidents influence in Au-
gust are not likely to be con-
verted to him by Mr.. Roosevelt's
later opinion of him.
What does this add up to?
Well, let's see. Two and two is
four and eight is II. times three
is SO and carry seven
WELL, excuse my s mple,
w homeSpun arithmetic, but
in my book. it adds up 10 a de-
liberate intention by the New
Deal crowd to beat their own
ticket, that of the Democratic
Party in the state of New York,
and elect a Republican, whom
they profess TO view with great
alarm. for the forehanded and
Interior purpose of discrediting
Farley and wrestling from him
the control of the New York
state delegation in the 1914
presidential nominating conven-
ton.
1t is no sure thing that de-
feat of Bennett would discredit
Farley. however, because the
beaten Democrats would be sure
10 realize that the fault was not
Farley's leadership but dirty
work at the crossroads.
There is nobody stupid enough
10 believe that La Guardia and
the rest of the New Deal radi-
Gals who are insisting that AL
fange has chance actually be-
lieve anything of the kind.
They know he hasn't a Chi
naman's chance and plainly
they have no intention but 70
NOV down Farley for 1914.
And they arc very apprehen-
sive of what Bennett might do
as governor, because he and
Farley both know all the per-
sonalities and tricks of the Com
munist crowd and their New
Deal fellow travellers and would
address themselves vigorously