Evening star., 1948-09-19
Dewey Leaves Today
To Open Campaign;
Iowa Is First Stop
By J. A. o'Leory
Stor Stoff Correspondent


Dewey leaves here tomorrow aft
ernoon on his second campaign
for the presidency with far
brighter prospects for victory
than he had four years ago.
Accompanied by nearly hundred
press, radio and news-photo repre-
sentatives, he will head first for
Iowa to outline in a Des Moines
stadium tomorrow night the kind of
government his administration
would strive for If he wins the elec-
ton.
The Republican nominee will en-
ter the Midwest farm belt just 48
hours after President Truman, who
delivered his first tmajor campaign
speech today at Dexter, Iowa.
Both To Swing Through West.
For the next two weeks the two
leading contenders will swing in
wide circles through the West. Both
will speak in the principal cities of
the Mountain and Pacific States.
And both will pause at many small
way-stations to plead their cases.
On his way to Des Moines, Gov.
Dewey will stop at Rock Island, Ill,
at noon Monday for brief talk in
ball park near the railroad tracks.
Gov. Dewey is the first man who
ever convinced the Republican
Party he could win the second time
around after losinng first try at
the White House. Successful come
backs have marked his career to
date. He lost his first fight for
Governor of New York, but won the
second and was reelected in 1916.
He lost to Wendell Willkie in 1910
when he first sought the presiden-
tial nomination. But he came back
TO win in 1914.
Takes No Chances This Time.
The campaign on which he en-
barks tomorrow will move at faster
tempo and reach more people than
he saw in 1914, despite the belief
of Republican leaders that he is far
out in front at the start.
Two reasons are behind the de-
cislon not to have him coast. First,
Is the fear of the COP strategists
that they may lose control of the
Senate while electing the National
ticket. Second, is desire to keep
party workers in the hamlets as
we'll as the big cities from being
lulled into overconldence by favor
able forecasts.
The Governor will be accompanied
by Mrs. Dewey when he boards the
same special car he used in 1914
Then it was called the David Liv-
ingstone." Now it bears the simple
designation of car 49, of the New
York Central, which acquired it
after 1914.
Car Equipped for Campaign.
Equipped for campaign purposes,
1t has a wide platform, with
amplifying equipment inside. The
car contains its own kitchen and
dining room, in. addition to living
quarters.
Next to the candidates car will be
two Pullmans for the Dewey team
of consultants, including Elliott v.
Bell, Paul E. Lockwood and several
other young research experts.
.. There will be a lounge car for the
ncal party leaders of each State.
who make 1t a point to board the
train as it passes through their re-
,pective bailiwicks. They will give
he candidate and his advisers the
attest estimates of how the cam
paign is going. In every State where
here is close Senate contest, the
Republican candidate for the Sem
ste will board the train and ap-
pear with the presidential nominee
1T all rear-platform stops.
The fourth car from the rear Is
The usual working car for the press.
Stripped of the cushioned Pullman
chairs. 1t will have two long benches
along the sides, on which a battery
of typewriters will grind out thou
sands of words each day about
every move the candidate makes.
Western Union to Speed Stories.
Charles B. Brown. a Western
Union official from Baltimore. will
be standing by to see that the stores
move as quickly aS possible from the
nearest sending points.
Occasionally, when the train is
scheduled to go through the night
without stop. the press copy will
be placed in a big brown envelope,
weighted to keep it from blowing
away. and dropped at the feet OF
waiting dispatcher at some sta
ton as the train goes whizzing by.
The candidates car will have
telephone facilities, which can be
hooked up whenever the train is in
a station. This year there will be
an added innovation on the Dewey
train-a teletype printer, to enable
the Governor to exchange messages
with Republican headquarters in
Washington or Albany. This facll-
ity also will operate only at depot
stops.
Will BE Kept Informed.
All VI lIllS ltAliIllAhI pIN pa fNhIoAI
Is designed to keep the candidate
fully Informed on up-tothe-minute
happenings in the world, so that
he can shape his campaign talks
accordingly, and be able to meet
changing situations,
d" From Des Moines Gov. Dewey will
head from Denver. Colo. again one
day behind President Truman. From
there Gov. Dewey will swing South
to Albuquerque and Phoenix. while
the President goes straight to the
West Coast by way of Salt Lake
City. San Francisco and Los An
geles.
Once more. Mr. Dewey will be on
Mr. Trumans heels when the Re-
publican nominee speaks in Los
Angeles September "a, and San
Francisco September 25.
The following week Gov. Dewey
will go north through Oregon and