Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-11
Says Demos
Think There
Will Be Row
TUCKER
BY Ray Tucker


Thomas E. Dewy's political
friends do not anticipate that he
will encounter any unusual diff.
ficulty in getting along with the
next Congress, especially if he
achieves his aim of helping to
elect a Republican majority in
both House and Senate by rout-
ing his campaign tours through
their districts and states.
The Democrats have tried to
make political capital by insist.
ing that what President Truman
calls the second worst Congress
in history will be scrapping
with Mr.. Dewey. assuming his
election, within a few months
after he enters the White House.
In this way they seek to place
the blame for lack Of coopera-
ton between Mr.. Truman and
the legislators on the bad men
at the east end of Pennsylvania
Avenue.
Mr.. Dewey's aides admit that
he is considerably more "liberar
than the convention which no.
minated him or the Republican
chieftains on Capitol Hill.
Although not so far leftish as
Franklin D. Roosevelt, they To-
cate the Republican presidential
nominee slightly left Of center"
They also know that many of
the G.. o P. leaders on "the
hill"--Messrs. Halleck and Taber
in the House, Messrs. Wherry
and Taft in the Senate-may not
agree in every detail with the
next President" on economic
and social quextions.
HAZE: Governor Dewey, how
ever, faced almost the same po-
litical and theological problem
when he arrived at Albany as
Governor in 1913. And they main
tain that he licked it!
To a smaller degree, New York
State politics and politicians ex-
hibit almost the same pattern as
national politics and politicians.
Downstate people including both
Republicans and Democrats, are
far more liberal and socially
minded than their brethren in
the rural, upstate areas.
The long list of New York's
great Governors-Sulzer, Whit
man, Hughes, Smith, F. D. RLt
were more advanced thinkert
than their legislative collabora-
tors. In fact. the "Black Ca
valry" Republicans staged
merry. celebratory carnival at
the ancient Ten Eyck Hotel when
they unloaded Theodore Roose
welt and Charles Evans Hughes
onin Washington. Both were too
liberal and idealistic for the To-
cal, political stomachs.
Mr.. Dewey walked into the
same sort OF situation when he
came here. The political boys
from Saugerties, Schoharie, Sa-
lamanca, Cattaraugus and Pots
dam were extremity suspicious
OF the young. cocky man who
had built such a reputation on
his achievements as a racket
buster. They planned to haze
him and give him the works"
CAUCUS: Governor Dewey i'm
mediately installed a system of
weekly or bi-weekly conferences
with the bosses of the legislature.
These include the Lieutenant Go
vernon, who presides over the
Senate, the Speaker of the House
the chairman of committees on
taxation and appropriations and
1.-THE head of the specific depart
ment whose problems or legisla-
ton thereto were under con-
sideration-health, agriculture.
finances etc.
Unlike Presidents Roosevelt
and Truman, who called in Con-
gressional leaders for a feverish
and unsatisfactory huddle on
Monday morning, Governor
Dewey usually holds these ses-
sions at the mansion Of a Sum
day evening.
1t is an unwritten rule that
there must be unanimous agree
ment on the question under dis
cussion before the meeting ends.
is a sort. of binding caucus.
But the principals never leave
without knowing their legislative
and political objective, and the
strategy by which they hope to
round up the needed votes in
the legislature.
There Is no squabbling in the
headlines among top executives,
as there has been at Wash
ington since 1888. F. D. r. loved
excitement and liked this meth
cd Of settling questions. Mr.. Tru-
man apparently cannot control
his political family, with the re-
suit that it is full of feuds.
Mr.. Dewey dies not like dis
cord, as his speeches in the
campaign demonstrate. He 10
all for unity, even il he has to
fight for it.
LICKINGS: Republican pre-
sidential nominees establish
ment of this family caucus sys-
TEN has provoked hostile charges
that he is a dictator. an auto