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LARGE FIELD OF CANDIDATES
LOOMS FOR COP NOMINATION
ByAUL MALLON y,


LOOMS FOR COP NOMINATION
WASHINGTON.- Dewey has
been running off with the publicity
for the 1948 presidential nomination
while issuing denial of intent. His
spectacular victory in the nations
strongest political state has brought
him even into the feminine gossip
columns, where it is being reported
he is the best Republican vote get
ter. Higher up some Of the leaders
are saying. his nomination and elec-
ton are already foregone conclu-
sion.
But this does not happen to be
the case. Dewey is not the best Re-
publican vote getter. Those Repub-
licans, who are finepointers, have
figured that Bricker of Ohio received
59.91 per cent of the vote in his
home state; Martin 59.81 per cent;
while Dewey received $500 per cent.
(But Warren of California got nearly
all.)
Nor is Dewey's titular leadership
actual. The working leaders OF the
party really are Vandenberg on for
eign policy and Taft on domestic
policy. This may or may not turn
out to Dewey's advantage. While
he sits in Albany taking a stand
only necessarily on the issues of the
state, Vandenberg will be mostly at
the United Nations the next two
years taking a stand on every in
ternational issue which comes along.
Similarly Taft, in the senate, will be
required to act daily on economic
issues of the day. In the past. the
positions occupied by Vandenberg
and Taft have been considered by
politicians to be detrimental. Usual
ly in such positions, men accumu
late too much opposition in time,
and the nomination goes to COVER
nor Gandon and Dewey or to an
outsider (Willkie) against whom not
much can be said.
But we are in an atomic era
toward peace and production. If
the active Republican leader
ship should succeed in deliver
ing one or both, the step from
the senate to the White House
might be shorter than that from
Albany.
Vandenberg already has been an
nounced as the next president by the
governor-elect of Michigan - al
though he renounced intent also.
Taft is in an excellent tactical posi-
ton since he adroitly retired from
the last race in favor of Bricker (who
now has similarly bowed in favor of
Taft. And of course Warren Of
California, Martin of Pennsylvania,
Stassen of Minnesota Ian announced
candidate) and Martin of Massachu-
sets, may be running along with
some others who could make it
close fight. Thus my present con-
cluSion is that the chances of Van
denberg and Taft, if added together,
are certainly much better than Dew
ey's. Unless they kill each other
off, or split, they could beat him
today.
Biggest strictly political news Of
the elections was the breakdown
of the Democratic city machines.
Those machines, plus the South,
were the Democratic party. But
Kelley is clinging to Chicago only
by a clutch on his own hair Che lost
half the most important Cook coun-
ty offices). having delivered the next
mayoralty race to an antagonistic
Democratic leadership. Dewey did
not similarly crack the Tammany
machine in New York, but a Repub-
lcan presidential candidate might.
The Hague leadership went further
toward inconsequence in New Jer-
sey, and. the Republicans carried
Boston for the third time in history.
So the Republican race now is
hearing the bugle, with the
knowledge that its nominee like
ly Will win the White HOuSe-and
the race is wide open.
The various candidates today con-
troll so many divisions of the vote no
one would have a nominating ma
jority. Warren will have the Pacific
coast and probably Rocky Mountain
area, Vandenberg and Taft will di-
vide the Midwest, and Dewey can
get a substantial following in the
East and South, although the big
Pennsylvania delegation would be
for Martin. If Taft and Vandenberg
get together, one might win; if a
deadlock ensues, the nomination
would go to someone like the popu-
lar Warren of California or Martin
of Pennsylvania, with Dewey theo-
. retically looming large in the back
ground, but perhaps not as large as
the Ohio group which could nearly
run the party if it works Washingt
ton things right.
Personally am saving my money
and marking all Republican presi-
Dental stories now down to publicity.
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