Evening star., 1948-10-15
By Gould Lincoln
Sior Steff Correspondent

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 15.-
Gov. Dewey of New York, Re
publican standard bearer, will
probably increase his $4,000 vic
tory margin over the late Presi-
dent Roosevelt in 1914 to q 200,-
000-margin over President Tru-
man in Ohio November 2. It
may 90 even higher.
While Democratic campaigners
make no such admission and still
publicly proclaim that Mr.. Truman
will carry the State, privately they
have little hope. Frank j. Lausche,
former Governor and former Mayor
of Cleveland, Is their white hope to
defeat Gov. Thomas j. Herbert, who
is running for his second term.
Polls taken by the cleveland
Plain Dealer and by the Columbus
Dispatch indicate that the Dewey
Warren ticket Is on its way to VIC
tory. They show Gov. Dewey and
Gov. Warren with unexpected
strength in the larger cities, al
though in some Of the smaller cities
and towns Gov. Dewey is not doing
as we'll as in 1914. Ohio's big farm
vote. which has usually been
strongly Republican, is expected to
do its part to swell the count for
the Republican presidential candi-
date.
If the city polls are correct, the
Taft ft-Hartley Act is not proving the
handicap to Republican candidates
which the Democrats had hoped.
The Democrats argue that with
the Dewey vote slackening off in
the smaller towns and with Gov.
Dewey running this year without
the aid of John w. Bricker on the
ticket with him, there may be a
real surprise in store on election
day. They contend, too, that Presi-
dent Truman helped himself con-
siderably on his recent trip through
the State. ~;
The Henry Wallace presidential
candidacy apparently has only a
minor part in the picture here. In
the early days Of the wallace candi-
dacy there Yas vigorous drive for
the third party leader.
But this has lessened In degree
until finally 1t Is the consensus OF
political observers that the Wallace
vote will be not more than 10000 to
$4,000, and it may be much less.
There are counties in which Mr..
Wallace will receive scarcely q vote.
His greatest strength will lie in
Cleveland and other industrial cen
ters, whereradical and racial groups
are found. What votes Mr.. Wallace
gets, however, will be taken from
the old Roosevelt strength and in
consequence will be a loss to Presi-
dent Truman.
Seek Absentee Ballots.
The same story told by observers
in other States is repeated here;
that the average person OF voting
age has come to the conclusion that
a change in National administration
is overdue and that Mr.. Truman, no
matter how honest and courageous
he may be, does not measure up to
the Chief Executives job.s
A straw in the wind: The students
at the University of Ohio, many of
them war veterans, now are getting
absentee ballots to vote for Gov.
Dewey. They are exercised over the
recent Vinson-Stalin fiasco of the
Truman administration. They do
not wish to take chance, they say,
with a man in the White House who
seems to be taking chances with the
country's international relations for
the sake of votes on November 2.
Ohio this year probably has its
largest registration in its history.
This is due in part to increased
population. Labor leaders claim
that it is due, also to their intensive
drive to get the workers to register.
Democrats see hope for victory in
this large registration.
Little Interest in Campaign.
They are saying that If the vote
should run as high as $500, 900, they
will surely win. In 1914, the total
vote cast for President was little
over 100000. The complaint, how
ever, Is that there is no boiling in
terest IN the campaign, despite the
large registration.
Ohio has been fundamentally q
to confer with John Foster Dulles,
foreign affairs adviser to Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey and member of
the American delegation to the
United Nations. Gen. Clay and
Ambassador Robert Murphy, his
political adviser, also will meet with
German officials.
Reds Order Purge.
Meanwhile. the leadership Of the
German Communists in the Russian
zone publicly stated that widespread