The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-07-07
COP FORESEES
VICTORY WITH
DEWEY BR|CKER
Republicans Unite Solidly
Behind Governors Ticket
For Presidential Race.
BY GEORGE A. BARCLAY

BY GEORGE A. BARCLAY
AMID scenes of harmony and
IA enthusiasm that proclaimed
to the nation the Republican
party's unity Of purpose, Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York
was chosen the party's wartime
nominee for the presidency at
the national convention in Chi
cago.
The delegates, whose nominating
intentions had been apparent long
before they assembled in Chicago,
picked the 42-year-old governor by
a 1056-to-1 vote. Then they made it
an all-governor, East-Middle West
ticket by choosing Ohio's John w.
Bricker for the vice-presidential
nomination. A single Wisconsin dele
gate, Grant Ritter, farmer Of Beloit,
had cast a single ballot for Gen.
Douglas Macarthur for the presi-
dency. Governor Bricker was nomi-
mated unanimously.
Wendell L. Willkie, Republican
standard-bearer in 1910, was quick
to congratulate Governor Dewey.
"You have one of the great oppor-
tunities of history" he told the
nominee in a message sent from
New York City.
Flies to Chicago.
AS Franklin D. Roosevelt did in
1882, Governor Dewey flew to Chi
cago from Albany, New York, to
deliver in person his acceptance
speech to the delegates. Vast crowds
surging around the Chicago Stadium
hailed the nominee when he arrived
from the airport. Inside the conven-
ton hall he was given tri-
unphant ovation that ended only
when Congressman Joseph w. Mar
tin Jr. of Massachusetts, house
minority leader and permanent
chairman of the convention, sue
ceeded in gaveling silence.
Governor Dewey's speech was
fortnight and direct. 1t was re-
ceived with rousing cheers by
the delegates and the $4,000
citizens who thrOnged the con-
vention hall to the rafters.
The nominee accepted his
great new honor with a pledge
to lend one-man government
in America" crush Germany
and Japan's will to make war
and devote himself to "rewin-
ming freedom" at home.
The New Deal administration, he
told the delegates, has grown "old
and tired and quarrelsome in Of
fee" and is unequal to the great,
pressing problems of war and
peace.
Keep High Command.
Declaring that the military con-
duct of the war unjust remain COM
pletely out of politics." Governor
Dewey said he wanted to make it
"crystal clear" that any change in
administration would not involve
changes in the high command.
Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of
staff, and Adm. Ernest ]. King, COM
mander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet, are
doing a superb job he declared
and should retain their present posi-
ton and responsibilities.
Governor Dewey made known I'M
mistakably that he will stand
squarely on his party's foreign dec
laration and brook no postwar inter-
national plan that contemplates
super-state. He did envision, how
ever, American participation with
other sovereign nations in CO
operative effort to prevent future
wars.
He pledged that he will make full
employment a first objective of ma
tional policy. He declared the New
Deal had never had an employment
policy and finally got people to work
only after the country had entered
the war.
High interest had conferred in the
platform-building job on which the
drafting committee headed by Sena-
tor Robert A. Taft of Ohio had
toiled. Special attention was
focused on the controversial foreign
policy plank which had offered the
only issue capable of producing a
rousing inter-party battle.
The result, however, was COM
promise-a middle-of-the-road state
ment calculated to conciliate inter-
nationalist and pro-nationalist ele-
ments in the party at the same time.
This foreign policy plank favors
American participation in postwar
security measures through "organ-
lied international cooperation" but
shuns membership in a World
State.
In sessions of the platform COM
mittee preceding the presentation of
its report, the governors of Is states
had sought to have more positive
and binding commitments on post