The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-07-21

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tee. Lawyers and
politicos haggle hours over words
in these platform meetings and this
time sat up all night at it as usual.
A sharpster in words is usually a
candidates choice for that task.
Dewey chose small, pleasant gray
haired Miss Mary Donlin, a New
York attorney, to represent him.
She was last out of the meeting at
$3.50 a. m.
But to go deeper than this
example, there were three fac
tions within that committee as
indeed within the whole c0nven-
ton - not Deweyites, Brickef
boys, Stassen men, etc., but o
group Of senators, clan Of gov
errors and third crowd OF just
plain delegate political workers
from back home.
The governors clan, represent
ing 26 states, consider themselves
more important politically than
the senators, and got their gump-
ton up to such an extent that the
senator's listened 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
apparently they just wanted recog-
milton for themselves rather than
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VETO WORK BY DEWEY
In this conflict, Dewey seems to
have largely let the senators write
the declaration of party principles.
Taft of Ohio, Danaher Of Connecti-
cut and Millikin of Colorado did
most of it. Through Miss Donlin and
otherwise, Dewey exercised mainly
a negative influence, vetoing words,
phrases, some ideas.
Actually this platform was just the
party's preparation for the candi-
date to take over. Some political as
sayers are now reading great hid
den 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, especially
what he wants to do about it later,
is what the platform will be.
One sentence particularly awaits
his Interpretation, the one promis-
ing that the world organization will
take effective cooperative means
to direct peace forces to prevent or
repel military aggression" Police
force, directly or indirectly? Sover-
eighty? Some experts think this
phrase is a sleeping termite in the
international plank.
At any rate Dewey is not the type
to be content with generalities and
phrase compromises when he sits in
the top chair.
Personally expect him to be lot
more liberal than the country sus-
poets. l think he will strive for an
enlightened common sense LIBERAL
ism as distinct from the sheer poll
teal liberalism which thinks for in
stance a poll tax is still important
Il mean the Willkie type of political
liberalism). It will champion great
err social security, for instance, and
more state medical aid instead of
the New Deals socialized medicine.
On international affairs, ] expect
him to be neither internationalist
nor isolationist. I think his goal is
realism" realism in regard to
Russia, to the rise of communists
in European leadership, in regard
to British Empire trade necessities,
and in considering the developments
which will arise in connection with
q world organization.
On the surface of the platform
adopted here and Dewey's inter-
national declarations, there APP
pears to be Dem0cratic-Repub-
lican unity on foreign policy, but
this is only a mutual accept
ance Of Democratic principles
sovereignty, etc.,.
His labor stand will likewise sur
prise you. The CLIO political action
crowd has made the front pages
look like Dewey is anti-labor. Fact
is he has gotten along well with
union labor in New York state. What
he did not get along with was the
radical element in and out of labor
even before he took office.
He has a nucleus of q working or
ganization ready to start. His adj
visers generally have long been cho-
sen, are in the crowd around him
now. It is possible they may be-
come too clannish as the campaign.
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