Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-30
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THE NEWS
BY Paul
Malon

CHICAGO, June oO-Ihls COM
" ing Dewey presidential cam
paign is likely to surprise the
country.
Not unlike the earlier Mr..
Roosevelt he has novel ideas
Though not the same ideas).
He does not work in political
grooves. is far from party
bound.
He scareS the oldtime pollti-
clans a little. because his meth
oldS are different, although his
inside record al this convention
shows surprisingly few mis-
takes.
To give you the closeup pic
ture. consider his designation
of a woman as his leader on the
platform committee. Lawyers
and politicians haggle hours
over words in these platform
meetings and this time sat up
all night at II as usual.
A Sharpster in words lis usu-
ally a candidates choice for
that task. Dewey chose small.
pleasant. gray-haired Miss Mary
Boniin, a New York attorney,
TO represent him. She was last
out of the meeting at $50 a. m.
But TO go deeper than this
example, there were three fac
tionS within that committee as
indeed within this whole con-
Vcntion--not DeweyiteS, Bricker
boys, StaSSen men, etc, but n
group of senator's clan of gov
errors and a third crowd of Just
plain delegate political workers
from back home.
The governors clan. repre-
senting 20 states, considers it.
self more important politically
than the senator's. and got its
gumption up to such an extent
that the senators listen to them.
However, governors are not
up on the national issues to the
extent that the senators are,
who handle them daily In fact
the governors seemed to have
little TO complain about and APP
parcntly they just wanted rec
ognition for themselves rather
than any special viewpoint.
IN THIS conflict. Dewey seems
Il to have largely let the sena-
tors write the declaration of
party principles. Taft of Ohio,
Danaher of Connecticut and
of Colorado did most of
it. Through Miss Donlin and
otherwise, Dew exercised
mainly negative influence,
vetoing words, phrases, some
ideas.
Actually this platform is just
the partys preparation fer the
candidate 10 take over. Some
political asSayers are now read
ing great hidden meanings into
the thinly shaved words which
were adopted. AS usual and
particularly in the case of the
footloose Mr.. Dewey, they are
wasting their time. What he
reads into the platform, espe-
Cially what he wants to do
about it later is what the plat
form will be.
One sent ence particularly
awaits his Interpretation, the
one promising that the world
will take effective
cooperative means TO direct
peace forces to prevent or .Tepel
military aggression" Police
force. directly or indirectly?
Sovereignty. Some experts think
this phrase is a sleeping termite
in the international plank.
At any rate Dewey is not the
type 10 be content with gen.
eralities and phrase compro-
misses when he sits in the top
chair.
lis labor stand will likewise
IL surprise you. The Go po-
litical action crowd has made
the front pages look like Dewey
is anti-labor. Fact is he has
gotten along we'll with union
labor in New York state. What
he did not get along with was
the radical element in and out
of labor
Now the radicals peculiarly in
this campaign are Realistically
in the same boat as reaction
aries, including the international
bankers.
Both the LeftiSts and Con-
wanted "one world"
or union now" A world state,
a quart of milk a day, etc. Be-
tween these two is A great por-
ton Of labor and also the aver
age citizen. The AFL, for in
stance, is idealogically, Just
about where / expect Dewey
will wind up on labor strongly
anti-CommunistD
l expect he will storm the
country, probably make more
speeches than usual. lie will let
the country know him as New
York knows him.
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