The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-25


poets tambling TO about two degrees
above freezing, almost everybody
around the state capitol held his
breath lest by inadvertence he
should chill the ensuing boomlet for
Senator Truman.
Before the campaign Is very old.
the public Is going TO be reminded
OF Senator Humans political debts
TO the notorious Pendergast machine
In Kansas City. The text OF the Mis-
souri, senator's tribute TO his eene-
factor, after boss PendergaSt had
been sent TO the penitentiary for his
proved crimes, viii be given wide
distribution.
This, however. is not the Achilles
heel that pleases the Deweyites
most. Paradoxically enough, the real
reason q. o. p. lads think a Roose-
velt-Truman ticket was made 10 or
der for Governor Dewey's big guns
is the splendid Job the Truman
Comm tee has done checking war
contracts and their fulilllmcnt-the
very job that made Truman a ma.
tional figure and won him the vice
presidential nomination.
TRUMAN SEEN As FDR's
MOST DAMAGING WITNESS
Dewey researchers. even before
they begin checking the commit.
tees report word by word. are cer-
tain that its findings can be used
20 make Senator Truman their most
damaging witness against his rum
ming mate.
The Truman Committee hearings
and reports unquestionably would
have been combed anyway for am
munition In support OF the q. o. u.
contention that President Roosevelt
has badly misnanaged war produce
tion. But the blessing that the DEM
ocratic Convention placed upon the
Missouri senator's work Is counted
upon to make this material the
more devastating. II will no longer
have TO be presented as the findings
Of statesman who, though a DEM
OcTat. might he considered hostile to
Mr. Roosevelt II now becomes a re-
luctant indictment drawn by the
Democratic partys alternate choice
for president by one Of the three
men with whom President Roosevelt
said he would be glad to run for
reelection.
The line Of attack opened up by
Senator Truinan's selection Is
broader than that which would have
been available II Vice President
Wallace had won out.
In the latter case the major aFgu-
ment would have been that Mr..
Wallace himself Is united In cap
aeity and temperament TO succeed
10 the presidency II anything should
happen 10 Mr.. Roosevelt.
q. o. y. FIGURES on 4
TRIPLE-TIEREAT ATTACK
With Senator Truman the APP
pr0ach has three speaTheads:
!. TTuman's Indebtedness TO one
OF the worst big city machines IN
recent political history
2. The findings OF Truman that
can be used against Mr.. Ro0seVelt's
conduct OF the home front.
3. The contention that when the
Democrats discarded Henry Wallace
and his four years of experience
they knocked the props out from
under their own dont-ehange-
horses argument for Q fourth term
Even Senator Barley, with the
record OF his recent short-liyed
break with the President and their
harsh interchange OF inyeetiye, did
not seem TO the DeWeyites 10 offer
them so much ammunition as does
Truman.
II cannot be said that the Repub-
ileans around here were fully satis-
fed with the d0ings OF the Demo-
Gratis In Chicago. They would have
preferred another Madison Square
Garden Gaseo, like that which gave
President Coolidge q walkoyeF In
1924,
But they aren't complaining. The
southern delegations came through
better than the q. o, p, dared hope,
And the nomination Of Senator TTu-
man was pleasing. Rnd-foollshly OF
not can be determined In N0Yem-
berthe Deweyites seem very cheer
ga