The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-04
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

his readers His articles the good purpose Of
making people think.
BY wEsTBRooK PEGLER
SPRINGFIELD, ILL, Aug. 8 - In the hear
ing of about thousand men and women and
some Whitcomb Riley types of midwestern
boys and girls, most of them carrying small
political placards on sticks, Tom Dewey init
mated on his arrival in Springfield yesterday
that his journey from New York to ST. Louis
for conference of 26 republican governors is,
in fact, campaign. He said he and Gov.
Dwight Green, of Illinois who met him at the
railroad station, were engaged in great cam
paign, continuation of their war on gansters
in which both took part IA years ago.
This was a reference to Green's prosecution
of AL Capons which condemned Capone to
long, pensive years in Alcatraz and to con-
tinuing oblivion in Miami and his own attacks
in New York on the underworld alliance of
Tammany and the racketeers of unionism.
Up to this point the Dewey party had pre-
ferred to pretend that he was not campaigning
just yet but only 'confSrring with other leaders
of the republican party. 1t is fine point but
he did campaign today, both in his small
Grafton to the crowd at the station and in
the press conference at the executive mansion.
This, incidentally, is large and remarkably
tasty house which markedly excells the equally
large but monstrous old heap in Albany which,
nevertheless, has served four New York COVER
nors, to date. a. prep school for the White
House.
Hil In Gym
Dewey's precise mind apparently has it that
a campaign doesn't begin until the nominee
actually starts throwing volleys of lefts and
rights to the face and body in prepared
speeches. In that sense, he is still doing calis-t
themes and working out on the heavy bag
in the gym, for he refused to elaborate on
his reference to the continuing war on gangs
tiers, just now.
This may be taken as intimation, however,
that when the seconds out of the corners
and the bell rings he will tear into Franklin
D. Roosevelt as the protector of some Of the
foulest criminals of the age who, in turn, in
this contest, are supporting Jr. R. both fnanc-
tally, out of the colossal treasures, which he
helped them to amass, and, politically, through
the organizations which, in the guise of labor's
gains, he helped them to create The mention
of gansters and the continuation of the old
war against them refers to the legal protector
ate which was maintained for highway rob-
bers of the criminal underworld of unAonism,
when Congress tried to pass laws against union
racketeering, and to the late Lepke Buchalter,
whose field of operations was that section OF
the New York needle trades dominated by
Sidney Hillnan.
Mr. Hillman, the boss of the CLIO Communist
political action committee is politically and
personally in Roosevelt company and Dewey
is thoroughly acquainted with the career and
associations of Lepke, whom he once prosecut-
ed for extortion. And he has neither awe of
nor illusions about Roosevelt a machine
politician Mr., Roosevelt will not come into
the ring as commander in chief in this phase
of the campaign but as one who, befrlended
the oppressors and dictators of the labor move
ment on guild pro quo understanding which
reduced labor to helplessness.
Dewey's themes apparently Will be JOBS I'M
der private enterprise when peace comes, as
distinguished from public employment at Dole
wages, and the exploitation of the worker by
subsidiaries of Roosevelt's party through rack
eteers and manipulators in the unions. He
| has returned to the thought, first expressed IN
| his acceptance speech in Chicago, that until
the war created millions of jobs at public
expense, Roosevelt's only solution for the unem-
ployment of 10 million workers had been gov
eminent made-work projects
Wendell Wllkie refused the issue four years
ago but this year, for the hrst tlme, the
/ subject of real jobs and law abiding unlonism,
all for the benefit Of labor itself, is coming to
| challenge.
i
Dewev,s staff on this trip AS the party drove
to Abraham Lincoln's tomb this afternoon he
remarked gravely that this pilgrimage stirred
in him feelings which he could not well express.
| His grandfather came north with General Sher-
idan and became messenger in the court
of appeals Franks father succeeded him The
grandfather had no education but both the
Con and the grandson went through public
school No. in Albany high school and now
Franks own daughter has followed the same
course He was invited to join the party enter
inc the tomb of the man whom he reverently
regards as his emancipation and was shocked
to hear that, back in the '7o's after Lincoln
had been moved 20 times from one more or
lass temporary resting place to another, a
gang of criminals tried to snatch the body,
Intending to hold it for $500. 900 ransom. That
was why now it was encasea IN soma concrete
. and steel, deep in the ground
!, On the way to the tomb, Simpson, who sees
Torn Dewey every day, very full of his feelings
heard two little boys playing near the GENE,
: +arv One -ofs,them yelled to the other: Did
YOU see Tom Dewey? saw him good.'