Evening star., 1948-09-21
By the Assoeioisd Press

DES MONIES, Io,Ud, Sept. 21.-
FOLLOWING is the fert OF an ad-
dress by Coz. Thomas E. Dewey
at Drake Stadium last night:
Tonight we enter upon cam
paign to unite America. On January
20 we will enter upon new era.
We propose to install in Washing
ton an administration which has
faith in the American people, a
warm understanding of their needs
and the competence to meet them.
We will rediscover the essential
unity Of our people and the spiritual
strength which makes our country
great. We will begin to move for
ward again shoulder to shoulder
toward an even greater America and
better life for every American, in
a Nation working for the peace Of
the world.
This is my pledge to my fellow
citizens, the declaration of the prin-
ciples and purposes of your next ad-
ministration:
I pledge to you that as President,
every act of mine will be determined
by one principle above all others:
Is this good for our country?
pledge to you that my admins
tration will be made up of men and
women devoted to that same prin-
ciple-of men and women whose
love of their country comes ahead of
every other consideration. They will
know how to translate their devo-
ton to our country into constructive
action.
Pledge Policy for Peace.
I pledge to you a foreign policy
based upon the firm belief that we
can have peace. That policy will be
made effective by men and women
who really understand the nature of
the threat to peace and who have
the vigor, the knowledge and the
experience required to wage peace
successfully.
I pledge to you a Government OF
teamwork. The executive heads Of
your Government will be really
qualified for their positions and they
will be given full responsibility to
do their Job without loose talk,
factional quarreling or appeals to
group prejudice. They will know
how to work together as a team
and one of the most important
members OF that team will be the
distinguished Governor of Califor-
mia, the next Vice President of the
United States, Earl Warren.
I pledge to you an administra-
ton which will know how to work
with the elected representatives of
the people in the Congress. an ad-
ministration that wants to work
with them and will do so. The
unity we need for the Nation will be
practiced in the Nations Capitol.
I pledge to you that on next
January 20 there will begin in Wash
ington the biggest unraveling, un-
tangling operation in our Nations
history.
Prosperity for All.
pledge to you an administra-
ton which knows in its mind and
believes In its heart that every
American is dependent upon every
other American; that no segment |
of our people can prosper without |
the prosperity OF all; that in truth
we must all 60 forward together.
This is what you may expect |
from your next, your Republican
administration. 1t will be an ad-
ministration in which every men,
ber is enlisted to advance the we'll
being of all our people and is
dedicated to the release of the en-
thusiasm, the energy, the enterprise
of our people: an administration
which has faith in America and is
resolved to prove its faith by its
works.
This is the road on which I pro-
pose that we set out together. AS
we advance we will carry America s
destiny with us. We will also carry
the hope Of freedom and the living
promise to a stricken world that
men can be free and that free men
can live in peace.
We are living in sorely troubled
times. The unhappy difficulties of
today are familiar to every one of
us. Three years after the end of
the war the world has still not