Milford chronicle., 1948-10-22
Politicians
Roll Again

41H POntACd4 Trains were rollins
again this week. The speechen
were warming up what some OBJ.
servers had described as one of the
dullest presidential campaigns in
memory.
President Truman, insisting the Re.
publicanS have failed to speak "plain.
ly and honestly" on the issues, set
off on tour through Ohio, Illinois,
Minnesota and Wisconsin. Promising
to tear the hide off them from ton
to bottom" he said Republican Can.
dldate Thomas E. Dewey was dis
pensing Soothing syrup" and "sweet
nothings" instead of the issues of
peace, prices and places to live"
Mr.. Truman also maintained the
theme that the COP is ruled by "big
business bosses" He told an audience
at Akron that the Republicans have
tasted blood and they are waiting
eagerly for the time when they can
go ahead -. and do a real hatchet lob
on the New Deal without interfer-
ence."
Dewey Becomes BIunteP
The Dewey train was scheduled to
cover more ground than the Presi-
dents and the New York Governor
used the bluntest terms he has used
to date in criticizing the Truman ad-
miniStratiOn.
At the first stop, Pittsburgh, he
said mo administration ever made SO
many fundamental blunders even
from base political motives" Up
holding the Taft-Hartley law, which
the President wants repealed, Dewey
said it had cut strikes by so per cent.
He conceded that it is not perfect"
but that whenever it needs change
it will be changed"
At Louisville, Dewey assailed what
he called the clumsiness, weakness
and wobbling of the administration
He used such words as miserable"
confused" and "helpless" in describ-
ing the Presidents handling of do
mestice and foreign affairs.
Wallace on Foreign Policy
Also campaigning in the midwest,
Progressive Party candidate Henry A.
Wallace continued to attack the adj
ministratiOn's foreign policy. He
called Mr. Truman "a man with no
knowledge of international affairs
who defers to corporation presidents,
bankers, generals, admirals and
Churchill"
Il believe" he said, 'that we can
no more afford to let blind, unreason-
ing hatred of Russia shape our for
eign policy than we can afford to let
that policy be shaped by the ideologi-
cal affinity of few scattered Ameri-
can communists to Russia"
In the south, States Rights candi-
date j. Strom Thurmond hit Truman.
Dewey and Wallace for supporting
the Federal Employment Practices
Act, which he called ''the most das-
tardly piece of legislation ever con-
ceived." Thurmond has repeatedly
challenged the President to debata
the civil rights issue face to face.
Minority President
Regardless of who is elected Presi-
dent on November 2, he is almost
sure to be chosen by a minority Of
Americas vOting-age population.
On Election Day, the Census Bu-
reau estimates, there will be about
95,OOO,000 men and women in the
United States but the presidential
vote will be only 5",58O,OOO if ballots
are cast at the 1914 rate, or 56,525, 900
at the 1910 rate. In 1910 only 59.5 per
cent of vOting-age Americans cast
ballots.
The non-voting population includes
100000 aliens, inmates of peniten-
tiaries, mental hospitals and similar
institutions; legal residents of WASH
ingtOn D. c., who have no vote; and
millions who simply failed to regis
ter.
Basing its estimate on Census Bu-
reau figures, the House Civil Service
Commission sees important shifts in
state Congressional strengths after
1850. California will pick up seven
additional seats in the House of Rep
resentatives; Florida, Indiana, Michi-
gan, Oregon, Texas and Washington
will gain one each.
New York State will lose two seats:
eleven others - Alabama, Arkansas
Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississ
Sippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklaa
hOma, Pennsylvania and Tennessee
will lose one each.