Evening star., 1944-10-27
Roosevelt Urges
Big Vote in Talk
AT Wilmington
Quotes Lincoln Quip
On Horse Chestnut
In Rap at COP
DEWEY DECISION NEAR on ses-
sion to extend voting hours.
Page AS
(Te1t OF President Roosepelts
talk at Wilmington on Page
A-5.J
BY ]. A. FOX,
Star STAFF Correspondent,

wal Shah SoiI copOllOcuLs
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.-
President Roosevelt arrived in
Philadelphia today on a two-day
campaign swing and began an
automobile tour of military es-
adjustments in the metropolis
tan area.
A crowd of 5000, a railroad spokes-
nan estimated, pressed against
police ropes at the station when the
train pulled in. Tens of thousands
packed the streets along the Presi-
dents scheduled route.
The President declared in plat
form talk during brief stop in Will
Del, that "a big vote in
America this year will speak power
fully for the cause of democracy all
over the world"
He likewise expressed the hope
that every man and woman who is
qualified to vote" will exercise that
right on November 7, emphasizing
the point the Democrats have made
repeatedly, that a huge turnout on
election day will assure the success
of the party. The prepared text
made no reference to Mr.. Roosevelt's
own candidacy, however.
Recalling that this campaign was
the first in wartime since 1864, the
President said it recalled a story Of
the Lincoln campaign against
Stephen A. Douglas, when the
former said of his opponent that
lin every possible way he tried to
prove that a horse chestnut is a
chestnut horse" adding this applies
very neatly to some Of the Republi-
can political oratory" The President
commented as his audience howled
that Il think we all know the diff
ference between a horse chestnut
and chestnut horse"
Tribute Paid to Workers.
Mr.. Roosevelt, however, seemingly
took note of charges by Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey that the admin
istration has forgotten the white
collar worker" by singing out this
class for particular mention, as he
paid tribute to war workers gen.
orally.
Mr., Roosevelt stood bare-headed
and without a topcoat in a cold
wind to talk to a crowd at Whining
ton, estimated at about 5000 per-
sons. Many carried Roosevelt plac-
ards which identified them as rep
reSenting CIO units.
The President drew a laugh when
he departed from his prepared text
to recall that he had spoken at Will
mington eight years ago, and again
four years ago, and concluded: Il
think results go in threes." The
crowd appreciated this indirect ref
erence to his own candidacy.
The Presidents 40-mile automo-
bile tour will be climaxed with
the fourth ma jor address of the
fourth-term campaign in Shibe Park
tonight. which will be delivered
under the joint auspices of the
Philadelphia City Democratic Com
mittee and Businessmen for Roose-
welt, Inc.
From Philadelphia, Mr.. Roosevelt
goes to Chicago for an address in
Soldier Field tomorrow night.
Camden Included.
At Camden advance reports have
said that the President would speak
briefly at the City Hall while en-
route from the Philadelphia Navy
Yard to the Cramp shipbuilding
plant. After a White House visit
yesterday, however, former Gov. A.
Harry Moore of New Jersey said he
did not expect speech.
The Presidents speech at Shibe
Park, to be directed particularly to
business interests, according to the
sponsors, will be carried over the
Columbia and Mutual systems.
David L. Lawrence, State Demo-
cratic chairman, and James P.
Clark, city chairman, have expressed
confidence that Pennsylvania will
give the Roosevelt-Trum ticket a
better majority than the $4,000
votes by which the President car
ried the State four years ago. But
the Republicans also are making
claims and, in consequence, the
State can be considered only as a
doubtful proposition.
War Policy to Be Topic.
Presidential Secretary Stephen
Early said Mr.. Roosevelt's address
in Philadelphia will "in the main
have to do with the basic policy Of
the war"
The trip is the most ambitious
yet undertaken by the head of the
fourth term ticket 81 reporters
and photographers are aboard the
presidential train.
The President followed his 1910
tactics in the rear-platform talk
at Wilmington, which was a
bid for Delaware's three electoral
votes. That State was carried by
the Democratic ticket with a l3.O0O-
vote majority four years ago. and in
The Stars weekly survey now is
shown as leaning" toward the
Democrats.
Jersey Leaning" Republican.
The survey lists New Jersey with
Is votes as leaning" Republican.
and this would seem to be borne out
by the recent prediction of former
Gov. Charles Edison that the State
would give Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
substantial majority" That esti-
mate, however, has been scoffed at
by other Democrats, who contend
Mr.. Edison's views are colored by
his distaste for the Hague political
machine. Former Gov. Moore yes
terday predicted 100000 majority
for President Roosevelt as COM
pared to the 72,000 by which he
wof, in 1910.
In going into Chicago the Presi.
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-5.5