Evening star., 1948-10-29
Truman Stumps
New York From
Auto Back Seat
President Heurtened
By Noisy Reception
In Metropolis
By Joseph A. Fox
Stor SsoH Correspondent

NEW 1Ohh, OCL. %.-PreSls
dent Truman was stumping Met,
ropolitan New York from the
back seat of an automobile to-
day, as he worked to nail down
the States Al electoral votes, in
his final appeal for support in
the East.
Cheered by reports of party Lead
ers and further heartened by the
noisy reception that the city reserves
for notables, the candidate was fol-
lowing 69-mile route covering pop
ulous Yonkers and the four Dor.
oughs, with the windup coming to-
night when he goes into the old
Democratic stamping grounds at
the Academy of Music, Brooklyn,
for the windup.
The President was greeted by more
than 100000 persons on the first
day of his two-day campaign here,
an official police report said last
night. The estimate was made by
Chief Inspector Martin J. Brown.
Will Speak in Harlem.
He gave that figure for the num-
Der of persons who had turned out
to welcome the Chief Executive from
the time OF his arrival in New York
yesterday afternoon to the time he
returned to his hotel after his Mad
iSon Square Garden speech.
Harlem, with its huge Negro pop
1ilofinr lie nf fhn prnctlAt1k'~
speaking points today. Staten Island
alone is being passed up.
Tomorrow night. MIR. Truman
ends his long and tough campaign
ing routine in st. Louis.
While New York is accounted
Dewey territory. the Democrats ore
claiming the State.
Paul Fitzpatrick, Democratic State
chairman, who was on hand last
night when Mr.. Truman addressed
bowling crowd of 10000 in Madison
Square Garden, said that Gov.
Dewey will not come down to New
York City from Upstate with a
plurality in excess of 100000, "and
well get more than that here"
meaning in the five boroughs.
Loud Crowds, Little Applause.
! A paradoxical note was sounded
as the President came into New
York late yesterday after a two
day drive for the votes of indus
trial New England. He got a ticker
tape and confetti reception over
much of a 9-mile route that he
followed from Grand Central Sta
ton at the head of a motorcade,
but two vigorous attacks on the
COP at Union Square and City
Hall brought only scant applause.
and the story was little different
at Sara Delano Roosevelt Park on
the Lower East Side.
The City Hall talk was unusual
in another sense. too, inasmuch as
lit marked the first time that the
President has mentioned Gov.
Dewey by name in his campaign
attacks on the COP nominee
| The City Hall audience was drawn
/ largely from municipal workers, and
the President, expressing his own
| interest in well-paid civil service,
took for his text reported criticism
of Government employees by Gov.
Dewey. who, the speaker declared.
has real contempt for the men
and women who run our Govern
ment, city, State and local"
Lays Quotes to Dewey.
! Quoting Gov. Dewey as saying
publicly. You know. as we'll as I do,
that all civil service employees are
mediocre at their best" and adding.
If had my way, the present civil
service system in force in the ma
tional, State and local governments
would not exist" Mr.. Truman added
with emphasis:
Now that is what Dewey said"
Gov. Dewey also got large share
of Mr.. Truman's attention in the
Madison Square Garden speech.
which was delivered at a Liberal
Party rally. at which former In
terror Secretary Ickes, who split
with the President over the appoint-
ment of Edwin Pauley to be Navy
Undersecretary, also spoke.
! Mr.. IckeS was seated on the plat
form when the President arrived
and for the benefit of photogra-
i pliers, they INDUCED in lengthy
session of handshaking, into which
Herbert Lehman, former Governor
of New York, also was drawn.
/ Calls Dewey a SHADOW"
Spurred on by snouts of Give EN-
hell, Harry" Mr.. Truman character
lied his opponent as me, too.
shadow" and with obvious reference
to the Dewey campaign tour which
is following the same route as his
own. declared that the New Yorker
would follow him from place to
place. but would not follow his lead
in discussing various campaign is
sues. Specifically he named mimi
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