The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-05

e"" strings of pretty words. Yet nuggets were there-ii not of wisdom, at least of informa. tion for those who were curiou! what candidate Dewey would try tC make the issues of the coming cam. paign.
 In sitting the wheat from the chaf 1t is helpful to bear in mind that, unlike Ali Landon in 1886 Tom Dewey is not going to lei others dictate his strategy and and select his issues. There having been no meeting of minds in. ad- vance, one should not seek clews to the issues in what was said by Herbert Hoover or Clare Luce or Joe Martin or even by John Bricker, who in the interest of party unity was given the vice presidential nomination.
 Of the speakers in Chicago three have long been in close accord in their political philosophies. It is safe to say that what Governors Warren and Griswold said comes close to what Dewey thinks. If you Will analyze al lthe speeches they will fall into two quite dissimilar groups-those of Warren, Griswold and Dewey in one, all the rest in another. The first may be assumed to forecast the general tenor of the campaign.
 ONE-MAN GOVERNMENT
 TO BE A TARGET
 If that is so, you won't hear much about New Deal totalitarian- ism in terms of European theology. You will hear a lot about one-man government (New DeaD versus the teamwork that would be substituted by MT. Dewey.
 You will hear a lot about the vigorous, forward looking mental youth that the G. o. P. wants to substitute for an administration that "has grown tired, complacent and cynical quarrelSome |. decadent"- beset with squabbles among cabinet members, feuds among department heads, bitterness between the President and his own party leaders-"wrangling, bungling and confusion"
 For this MT. Dewey will propose to substitute 8 cabinet made up of the ablest experts he can find, in the various fields, to whom he will promise to delegate full powers under his general leadership.
 You will be told when II million men and women are mustered out of uniform they will want real jobs, not charity or made work. That the nations economic history up to the moment war created an artificial prosperity will be cited to demon- strate MT. Dewey's contention that nothing yet done in II years of the New Deal indicates the incumbent administrators ability to create work and opportunity for the use of individual initiative.
 THERE WON'T
 BE ANY SECRETS
 The Republicans will seek to keep the war out of the campaign. There will be no question whether we should be in, and full agreement that we must not only whip Axis armies and navies but wholly des- troy the will of Axis peoples to fight wars.
 Insofar as international relations are brought in by the Republicans, it probably will be through accusa- tions that the President is playing power politics. which have failed in the past to preserve peace and, in the opinion of many, have led to war.
 The Republicans can be expected to inquire what commitments the President may have made. other than purely military, to Churchill and Stalin and Chiang, and to prom ise that ii MT. Dewey is elected there won't be any secrets from the people, and from Congress about what they are being let in for.
 These are generalizations, of course. They are like the main topic-headings, in Roman numerals, with which the material is sub- divided before even the board detail is filled in. They are subject to change. But in the main, you'll find them fairly accurate.