Evening star., 1944-11-05
By the Associated Press.

6S Lue AbeOciAteo fress.
A lam-bang campaign ended to
all intents and purposes last night
and on Tuesday Americas voting
legions will pool millions of indi-
vidual decisions into a fourth term
for President Roosevelt or a first
for Gov. Dewey.
There will be a few stray ora
torical outbursts, Of course, betwees
now and balloting time. But last
nights speeches by the rival presi-
dental nominees - Franklin D
Roosevelt in Boston and Thomas
E. Dewey in New York-were the
last big bids for votes.
Both the Democratic and Re-
publican camps speak confidently
Of victory. They always do. No
body's going to admit he's licked
ahead of time. But professional
poll-takers are gnawing their fin
gers because the battle of the bal
lots looks to them SO close.
A petticoat parade may decide it
For the first time, there are more
potential women voters than men
Or it may be that ballots from fox
holes will turn the tide and that
the victor won't know for weeks.
Eleven States will count service
votes after November 7-among
them pivotal Pennsylvania.
Factors Hard to Figure.
Weather and gasoline rationing
which could keep voters at home,
are -to-flgure factors.
Whatever the outcome, most of
Americas voting millions-upwards
of 100000 of them-already have
made up their minds whether they
want to keep Mr.. Roosevelt or sub
stitute Gov. Dewey.
In the first wartime election since
1864 it has been choice primarily
between:
The older. experienced President
Roosevelt, who has had hand on
the tiller for a dozen years and
wants to keep it there.
The younger, energetic New York
Governor, who over and over again
has chanted: ITS time for a
change
There have been other issues, of
course. But fundamentally. they all
are compressed into one: Will it be
Mr.. Roosevelt or Mr.. Dewey to bring
the war to successful end, to rep
resent America in councils of peace
loving nations. and to undertake a
peacetime program at home aimed
at giving jobs to everybody?
"Strangest" Campaign.
In a campaign which Mr.. Roose-
welt has called the strangest he's
ever seen, the American people, per-
haps as never before in history. have
had to pick between men, between
personalities.
The campaign has been an acid,
name-calling, hard-punching affair,
cut in many respects to the pat
tern of 1940
AS was the case four years ago,
the Republican nominee started out
early, In July and August Gov.
Dewey busted himself with building
up his party organization. A con-
ference with the 26 Republican Gov
ernors in st. Louis was the high
point of this preparatory phase.
Then, on September 7, he mounted
the stump. He told Philadelphia
audience that the Roosevelt admins
tration planned to keep a large
Army after the war because it
feared there would be no jobs for
veterans. The New Deal. he de-
clared, is afraid of peace"
Travelling fast and far, Gov. Dewey
kept blasting charge after charge
at the New Deal. In the last full
week of campaigning he was ham,
mering at the theme that the Dem
ocratic leadership had sold out to
the CIO Political Action Committee
and that special privilege" in the
party was for sale through 'One
Thousand Club" membership.
Mr.. Roosevelt, as in 1910, had an
nounced he would not campaign in
the usual" sense-except to give
facts" to the voters when he
thought they should have them or to
correct opposition ''misrepresenta-
tons"
And, on September 49, he made
the first Of seven major campaign