Evening star., 1948-09-10
Gov. and Mrs. Dewey
Head for New York
To Register for Vote
By J. A. O'Leory
Ssor Stoff Correspondent

ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. l0.-Gov.
and Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey left
here this morning for New York
City to register as qualified voters
In the November election, which
may make them the next occupants
Of the White House.
The regular registration days In
New York are in October, but citi-
!zens who expect to be away on
business may register this month.
The Deweys come under this head
. ing, since the Governor will be on
the road during most of October,
seeking to end Is years of Demo-
cratic rule.
The Republican standard bearer
may be ready today or tomorrow to
announce further details of his
Western campaign trip, which starts
from Albany September 10.
Not Planned That Way.
Although Dewey associates say it
was not planned that way. present
indications are the Republican NOM
inee will follow President Truman to
the Pacific Coast
Gov Dewey's campaign speech in
Des Moines, Iowa. on September &c
will be delivered two days after Mr..
Truman has spoken at Dexter, not
far from Des Moines. Dispatches
from Washington yesterday re-
vealed the President plans to go
from Dexter to Denver. Salt Lake
City, San Francisco and Los Angeles,
The exact route to be followed
by Gov. Dewey when he leaves Des
Moines may be be made known
before this weekend. Gov. Dewey
will remain at the Roosevelt Hotel
In New York City tonight and will
confer at 10 am. tomorrow with
Gov. Bradford of Massachusetts,.
Massachusetts has been in the Dem
ocratic column in presidential elec-
tions for 20 years. The rejuvenated
G.. o. P is bending every effort to
win back the Is electoral votes of
Massachusetts, this year,
Last Week End Rest.
After his talk with Gov Bradford,
Gov. Dewey and his wife will 60 to
their farm at Pawling. N. Y, for
q last weekend rest before the cam
paign gets under way.
Encouraged yesterday by the ac-
tion of the executive board of the
Building Service Employees Inter-
national Union in coming out for
the Republican ticket, Gov. Deweys
associates are hoping the leaders OF
some other AFL aflliates will cast
their lot with the New York Gov
ernor. One group of AFL leaders
has formed an unofficial committee
to work for the Truman-Barkley
ticket. but the. Dewey forces have
not given up hope of winning over
additional units of this older branch
of organized labor.
So many newspapers are support
ing Gov. Dewey for the presidency
that it may establish a modern rec
ord.
So Per Cent Back Dewey.
Reporting results of preliminary
survey, the trade magazine Editor
and Publisher said yesterday that
replies from two-fifths of the Ma
tons dailies showed SO per cent OF
them are backing Gov. Dewey.
This percentage would give Gov.
Dewey more newspaper support
than any other presidential candi-
date has had in five recorded cam
paigns.
OF the newspapers polled SO far,
l6 per cent are for President Tru-
man and less than 4 per cent favor
States Rights Democrat j. Strom
Thurnond. Only two newspapers
are behind Henry A. Wallace.
These figures compared with go
per cent who backed Gov. Dewey
against President Roosevelt in the
magazine's final 1914 survey and sc
per cent who supported Wendell L.
Willkie against Mr.. Roosevelt in
1910.
The only newspapers which came
out for Mr.. Wallace were the Daily
Worker, official Communist organ,
in New York, and the York tPaD
Gazette and Daily.