The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-01

The convention, from 8 news paperman'S viewpoint, was dull. The ticket scalperS lost money. Even Republican leaders com plained about the dullness, be- moaned the fact that they couldn't get a crowd out on the first day to hear Governor Warren's key note speech. However, from 8 political viewpoint. this dullness may have been a good thing. What makes for a good newspaper story doesn't necessarily make for suc- cess on Election day.
 But what some people resented, especially the Bricker boys was too much steam-roller tactics and too much of the greased Dewey machine. It looked a little like the early steam-roller days of the New Deal.
 Out here in Maryland. where it's clean and green and where the farmers cultivate their corn with out worrying much about key note speakers or keyhole politics, I look back at Chicago and the whole political broil seems rather tawdry and out of place.
 But when you think about 1t carefully, it isn't. Chicago was part of the machinery of political opposition. And pOli- tical opposition is what makes this country strong-abIe to weather war and depressi0ns and internal turmoil. The Roosevelt Administration would have prof tied from more political oppOsi- tiOn in the early days. They're going to get a godo dose of 1t this fall. And as long as 1t doesn't hit below the belt and
 bring the war into politics, 1t will be a healthy thing.
 And I hope that whoever is elected President will have plenty of fair. honest political opposi- ton. It will keep him on his toes.
 G. I. GOES TO COP
 What I really started to write you about, however. was Gordon. He was able to leave camp only one day, Sunday, therefore never got a chance to see the convention in session. Despite that, think he got a gretaer kick out of it than MT. Dewey himself-and out of sleeping in a soft bedl
 He went out to the convention hall the day before 1t opened and watched all the preparations that go into the staging of the great est show on earth-the myriad of telephone and telegraph wires to carry the story to the country, the l0ud-speakers which the Republi- cans were terribly afraid might fall into the hands of Mayor KelIy's sewer commissioner, and even the saving off of the State flagpoIes after the Chicago Sun photographer complained that he couldn't shoot through the Mlcht- gan State flagpole because 1t was too high,
 If everyone took their politics as seriously and as enthuslastleal" ly as your husband, We would have a betteF.Tup country, There are others like blFl, however. sunday night, before he caught the train back to camp, he brought some Of hlg hllddias up to my hotel room, end they too gre doing 8 lot 0f thinking, They are thinkF Ing about whats going to happen after the war,
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