Evening star., 1944-08-01
Dewey 10 Continue
New Technique in
vsit'to Springfield
BY J. A. OLEARY,
Okap Qf. -

Star Btaff corrsDeadsnt
EN- ROUTE TO SPRINGFIELD,
Ill., Aug. Gov. Thomas e.
Dewey will carry into the capital
Of this strategic Midwestern
State today the new technique
he inaugurated in. Pennsylvania
yesterday. Of inviting voter
groups as well Is political lead
ers to talk over with him the is
sues of the corning presidential
campaign, as q means Of stimu-
lating interest in the Republican
program.
II the Republican nominAe's flrst
day in Pittsburgh yesterday is any
index Of what Is to come, he will
conduct Z thorough, systematic and
hard hitting campaign.
Although this trip to st. Louis for
Q conference with 76 Republican
Governors on major home-front
problems is . mere prelude to the
all-eiectiop drive. it may set . new
style in the important business Of
promoting teamwork between the
local and national tickets within .
party.
10 Hours Of Conferences.
For more than 10 hours yesterday
the debonair young New York Gov
ernor went from one conference
room to another in the william
Penn Hotel, talking, not only with
State and congressional candidates,
but with groups Of citizens from
local labor unions, agriculture, busi-
ness and war veterans organiza-
tions.
As the COP nominee left that
center of the steel industry, Penn
sylvania's Republican Governor,
Edward Martin, and its Republican
Senator, James Davis, were talking
confidently of swinging the Key
stone States IS electoral votes back
to the Republican column this
November.
To do that, they will have to
wipe out the 28l 900 majority by
which President Roosevelt carried
Pennsylvania for his third term, but
Gov Martin predicted fatty it will
be done. He said there is greater
enthusiasm in the normally Re-
publican rural counties and told of
q recent increase in new Republican
registrations in Democratic Allie
gheny County Pittsburgh) which
gave Roosevelt a lead of 104,641 in
1910.
The Democrats still have a paper
majority of $1,000 in the county,
according to Gov. Martin. but he
indicated he hoped the Democratic
margin could be held to q lower
figure in November. The Republican
task is to Offset in the the rest
Of the State the margin the Presi-
dent will get in Pittsburgh.
West Virginia Prediction.
A prediction that West Virginia
will go to Dewey and Bricker was
made by Walter Hallanan, veteran
Republican national committeeman
for that State, after he had visited
the party's standard bearer yester-
day. Declaring "the tide is run
ming strongly in favor Of the Re-
publican ticket" Mr.. Hallanan
added:
The men who mine the coal that
has been ssach an important part Of
our war machinery, and those who
work in the war plants do not pro-
pose to follow Sidney Hillman and
his CIO crowd '.,'''..-' -. - -
Mr.. Hallanan also predicted the
eolored vote would be strong for
Dewey, and added that these
groups represent the balance OF
power in West Virginia"
To Visit Tomb Of Lincoln.
After visiting the tomb and home
Of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield
this morning, Gov. Dewey will re-
peat the Pittsburgh process of CALL
ing in civic delegations, labor, agri-
culture. business and war veteran
round tables He will see the lead
ers of Republican women's organi-
zations and spokesmen for the Negro
population of Illinois.
In Illinois the Job of overcoming
President Roosevelt's 1910 victory
appears to be less difficult than In
Pennsylvania. President Roosevelt
carried the State against Wendell L.
Willkie by 95,694, but in 1896 the
President had majority over Alfred
M. Landon of more than TOO, 900.
Illinois is one of the 26 States
which now have Republican Cover
nors. and some party leaders are
counting heavily on the existence of
these State organizations to give
driving force to the party's national
ticket.
Reception Committee.
Gov. and Mrs. Dwight H. Green
Of Illinois head the Reception CON-
mittee waiting to welcome Gov and
Mrs. Dewey to Springfield shortly
before noon. Others are Mayor and
Mrs. John Kapp, Werner Schroeder,
national committeeman, and Mrs.
Betha Bauer. national committee
woman; John F. Tyren, chairman
Of the Republican State Commit
tee; Mrs. Helen Griffen, Republican
State chairwoman, and Brig. Gen.
George j. Boyle, adjutant general
OF Illinois.
Representative Halleck of In
diana, whose job it is to help eject
a Republican House Of Representa-
tives. as head Of the Congressional
Campaign Committee, boarded the
Dewey train last night and was en-
thusiastic over the approach Gov.
Dewey is making to the job of con-
tacting those who must carry on
the day to day campaigning after
the nominee has come and gone.
Gov. Dewey revealed in his Pitts
hurgh press conference that he in
tends to meet the Presidents Com
rAander in Chief role by directing
the peoples attention to the likeli-
hood that the war will soon be over,
snd that the man elected this No
vember will be a peacetime Presi-
dent. He followed this up by call
ing the Presidents first two terms
before the war the Roosevelt de-
He conceded that graft