Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-01
BEHIND N
THE NEWS
BY Paul
Matlon

tllNAp'f "Nilr Nv A''N
~ 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 ldeaS).
lie does not work in political
grooves, is FAR from party
bound
He scares the oldtime politi-
clans a little. because his meth
oldS are different. although his
inside record AZ this convention
shows surprisingly few mis-
takes.
To give you the closeup pic
ture, consider his designation
of woman as his leader on tho
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 is usu-
ally a candidates choice for
that task. Dewey chose small,
pleasant, gray-halrcd Miss Mary
Donlln. a New York attorney,
10 represent him. She was last
out of the meeting al $50 a. m.
But 10 60 deeper than this
thnVn NInra hpNn fac
lions within that committee as
indeed within this whole con-
Vcntion not Deweyltes, Broker
boys. StaSSen men, etc, hut a
group of senators, a clan OF gov
ernors and a third crowd Of Just
plain delegate political workers
from back home.
The governor clan. repre-
sentlng 26 states, considers IT.
self more important politically
than the senators, and got its
Cumption up 10 such an extent
that the senators listen TO them.
However, governors are not
UP an the national isstes to the
extent that the senators are,
who handle them daily In fact
the governors seemed 10 have
little 10 complain about and APP
parently they Just wanted rec
ognition for themselves rather
than any special viewpoint.
IN THIS conflict. Dewey seems
L 10 have largely let the sena-
tors write the declaration Of
party principles. Taft of Ohio,
Danahcr Of Connecticut and
Mlllkin of Colorado did most of
it, Through Miss Donlin and
otherwise, Dew ey exercised
mainly a negative influence,
vetoing words, phrases. some
ideas.
Actually this platform is just
the party'S preparation for the
candidate TO take over. Some
political aSSayerS are now read
ing great hidden meanings into
the =thinis= 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 10 do
about il later is what the plat
form Will be.
One tence particularly
awaits his Interpretation, the
one promising that the world
organization viii take effective
cooperative means 10 direct
peace forces TO prevent or repel
military aggression. Police
force, directly or indirectly?
Sovereignty. Some experts think
this phrase is a sleeping termlte
in the international plank
AT any rate Dewey is not the
type TO he content with gen.
cralitieS and phrase Compro-
misses when he sits IN the top
chair.
lis labor stand viii likewise
IL surprise you The Go po-
litiCal action crowd has made
the front pages look like Dewey
is antl-labor. Fact is he has
gotten along we'll with IN MON
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 LefIlStS and Con-
SerVativeS wanted "one world,
or union now a world stale.
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 AL for in
stance, is idealoglcally. Just
about where | expect Dewey
Will wind up on labor strongly
antl-CommunlStD
expect ne will storm the
country. probably make more
speeches than usual He will let
the country know HIM as New
York knows him
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