The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29
EmpireGoP Seeks Dewey 
 Overwhelming
 Win Would Boost
 Presidential Stock

New York, Oct. 2o-UP)-Re- publicans in this state are cam paigning today for reelection of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey by a land- slide sufficient to start the Dewey for-President boom all over again.
 There is Republican tradition against renominating loser for President. and Dewey lost to the late Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1914 by 99 electoral votes to 432. But governors of New York also always have advantage of proven vote ap- peal in the nations most populous state. If Dewey is defeated for gov- ernor one week from today. he is out of the 1948 picture.
 But if Dewey comes up with a big, fat lead he will have taken a long step toward the 1948 COP nomination.
 Odds Appear Against Mead Dewey is opposed by Sen. James M. Mead, Democrat, of Buffalo, N. Y. Mead ran ahead of the state ticket when he was a short term candidate for the Senate in 1888. Six years ago he ran ahead of MT. Roosevelt in New York state. But this time the odds appear to be against him although Democratic campaign managers predict their ticket will carry the state by 200, ,000 votes.
 The New York Daily News, con- ducting its usual statewide straw vote, comes up with incomplete re- turns which give Dewey an almost incredible advantage. Republican candidates uniformly carry upstate New York which consists of all counties outside of New York City, proper. But the big city has been Democratic stronghold. Running for governor in 1942, Dewey carried only one of the five counties or boroughs comprising the city, and still was elected.
 That one was Richmond, the smallest of the lot and his margin there was only six tenths of one percent. The news poll now gives Dewey four of the five counties within the city, showing him be- hind only in the Bronx where Mead's advantage is reported as less than one percent. On the basis of returns so far, the poll says Dewey would poll 60.6 percent of the New York City vote. If so, he would achieve a spectacular political tri- umph and his 1948 presidential stock would boom.
 Democrats On Defensive Democrats are pounding hard at Dewey on charges that he seeks Reelection as governor. only to further his chances for the Repub- lican presidential nomination. The governor is noncommital. Asked during his upstate campaign swing whether he expected to serve the full four year term If reelected to the governorship, Dewey replied:
 T hope so."
 Democratic campaigners are on the defensive, notably because oi their alliance with the left wing The Socialistic Liberal Party and the American Labor Party, which frequently follows the Communist Party line, formally have endorsed Mead, Herbert H. Lehman, who is the Democratic senatorial candi- date, and some other Democratic candidates But what seems to have hurt was the endorsement of Mead Lehman and other Democrats by the Communist Party. Both Mead and Lehman have repudiated Com munism and the support of Com munistS. But the Communists re- man with the Democrats, regard less.
 In Minority Position
 Democrats here find themselves in the position of a minority party which cannot win without left wing support. Franklin D. Roosevelt boiled only 2,478O00 Democratic votes for President in New York state two years ago against 2,987, SAT for Dewey. But the Liberal and American Labor parties combined to give an additional 80O,O00 votes and victory to MT. Roosevelt in New York state.
 Election day New York will be showdown test of the political vitality of the New Deal-Democrat- ic coalition which MT. Roosevelt so often led to victory. One of the factors will be the extent to which normally Democratic New York City Catholics have been offended by Communist and other left wing &C., tivity for the Democratic ticket. Although Republicans are blister