Evening star., 1948-10-13
Truman Moves
Into Wisconsin
And Minnesota
President Prepares
To Compare Stond
With Thot Of Dewey
By Joseph A. Fox
Stur SioH Cerresnondent

ABOARD TRUMAN'S CAM.
PAIGN TRAIN, Oct. 13.-Presi-
dent Truman is getting ready to
perform an autopsy" on the
public pronouncements of Gov.
Dewey, his Republican rival, 1t
was made known today as Mr..
Truman carried his campaign
into Wisconsin and Minnesota,
States he is visiting for the first
time since he came to the White
House In 1945.
The President is making a major
address in the st. Paul Auditorium
at 10:30 o'clock tonight. A White
House aide. queried about the topic,
said he thought Mr. Truman would
stress his own stand on various
Issues and compare 1t with what
Gov. Dewey has sailor left un-
said.
The President has accused the
G. o. P. Presidential nominee of
evading issues and refusing to let
the electorate know exactly where
he stands on controversial questions.
In the last couple of days. this line
of attack has been particularly
pointed, and observers have drawn
the conclusion that Mr.. Truman is
going to exert every effort to make
Gov. Dewey spell out his own posi-
ton, or present a silent front that
will be so obvious that the Demo-
Gratis can make political capital out
of that.
Plans to Recite Evils of Congress.
Up to now Mr.. Truman has
singled out for criticism only Gov.
Dewey's outspoken approval of the
Eightieth Congress which the Pres
ident has been using as a whipping
boy for several months in his talks
over the country.
The President will recite the
"evils" perpetrated by the Eightieth
Congress. then came out with:
And the Republican candidate for
President is standing squarely on the
record of that Congress in his cam
paign. Can you imagine that?"
If he starts particularizing, how
ever, Mr. Truman can be expected to
take such Dewey outposts as the
New Workers. labor speech in Pitts
burgh, Monday night, in which he
defended the Taft-Hartley Act, and
lay it line for line against the
Democratic position in favor of re-
peal of the act. And the process, OF
course, will be repeated.
Two Crowded Days.
After two crowded days in Indiana
and Illinois, where he was playing. !
repeat engagements, the President
travelled today in his dusty campaign
train to the Superior-Duluth area,
where he will make couple Of talks
this afternoon, before moving to st.
Paul. The President, for the first
time since he went on the road in
June with the well-remembered
political tour, has nothing
scheduled for the morning hours
but that doesn't foreclose the pos
sibility of back-platform appear
ances wherever crowds happen to
gather.
Arriving in Superior. Wis, at $3.50.
he makes a trainside talk, then
moves to Duluth, Mimi, for an
other talk that will be given either
at Left Erickson Park or the armory.
depending on the weather. Then
he goes tn Ct palll
% Electoral Votes at Stake.
In Wisconsin Mr.. Truman will be
talking for IL electoral votes In
the old La Toilette stronghold,
which Gov. Dewey carried against
President Roosevelt four years ago.
In Minnesota, with II votes and
Democratic State since 1928, the
President will have a chance to put
in a plug for the senatorial can
didacy of Hubert Humphrey, Mayor
of Minneapolis, who is rated at
better than even money to unseat
Senator Ball, Republican.
Mayor Humphrey has Farmer
Labor as well as Democratic back
ing.
When the, President leaves st.
Paul he will head for Milwaukee
for another major speech tomorrow
night.
Mr.. Truman, who will be back in
Illinois on october Is. when he
speaks in Chicago, ended his current
drive for support in the State with
a speech last night in the Armory
at Springfield. There he claimed his
day-lorg attack on the COP for
hamstringing the Democratic farm
program by charging-in effect
that the Republicans would make
second class citizens" Of the farmer.
"As Democrat I believe in pros
(See TRUMAN, Page A-6D
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