Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-13
Scribe Says
COP Nominee
Is Determined
TUCKER
BY Ray Tucker

ALBANY, oct. l3-Governol
Thomas e. Dewey will persist in
his campaign strategy Of moi
mentioning President Truman dsa
rectly and of discussing issues
as he sees them instead of
indulging in personalities. He
and Governor Earl Warren
agreed on that technique at their
first Albany conference after
their nominations.
Mr.. Dewey, however, makes
almost the same reservation that
was drawn in 1914 by his op.
ponent of that year, Franklin D,
Roosevelt. Explaining that cor,l
duct of the war effort would
leave him no time for Ordinary,
political campaigning" F. D. R.
kept himself free to answer un.
warranted or untrue attacks on
his Administration.
Only if Mr.. Truman carries
name-calling to extremes will
the Republican presidential no.
minee reply. He does not think
that the people relish the
"smear stuff" in these seriolh
times. And, as he delegated Ha.
rold E. Stassen to answer Mr..
Truman's radio broadside a.
gainst the Both session of Con
gress, so he will leave the sock.
'em-and-rock'em speeches to les
ser party lights. They have al
ready taken to the stump,
and they are old hands at par.
imentary and political infight.
ing.
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MISTAKES: In making this
kind of an appeal for votes, Go.
vernon Dewey believes that he
tempers the tone of his camp
aign to the mood and spirit OF
the people. He is also profit.
ing from mistakes made by him.
self in 1914 and by the 1910 and
1895 nominees-Wendell Will
kie and ALI Landon, respective.
ly.
AS he analyzes their attempts
to defeat an incumbent Chief
Executive, he notes tthey per.
mitted themselves to be dragged
into meaningless and undigni
fled brawls with F. D. Rs
smear brigade"-the late Char.
ley Nicholson, Harold L. Ickes
Henry A. Wallace and his pam.
phleteers.
The possible temperance Of
1ckes in the Truman camp. and
tthe memory of his barefoot boS
of Wall Street" Characterization
OF Mr.. Willkie, confirm the Al.
bany strategists in the wisdom
OF their oblique attack.
Remembering how F. D. RS
indifference and jesting treat.
ment Of his efforts in 1914 led
him to fume and sputter
and finally lose his temper in his
Oklahoma City outburst, Mr.
Dewey will not repeat this blund.
er. He also suspects that hiN
refusal to slug it out with Mr..
Truman may have the same pro.
vocative effect on him before
November 2.
REACT: How does a man
feel and react when he stands
on the Threshold of the most
powerful office in the world-an
office which has discredited or
magnified so many men, and
which has also killed ok
sent them back to private life
as broken figures? It is a ques.
tlon which almost every visitor
to Albany asks.
1t may sound "corney" and it
may be the answer to be ex.
pected, but every single man
close to Mr.. Dewey replies with
this short and significant word:
Humble"
CONFIDENT: It can truth
fully be said that Governor
Dewey feels confident, but not
cockt. He recognizes that not
even in war years has a Chief
as will the man who raises his
right hand and swears to defend
the Constitution on the eastern
side of the Capitol Plaza next
January 20.
He believes however, that he
knows the operations of the gcH
vernment as well as a man cal
learn them before he actually en-.
ters the White House. He reco-
gnizes that New York is not the
United States, but no Common.
wealth could provide finer
schooling and preparation.
He thinks that his experience
demonstrates his ability to get
along with the people and the po.
lticians, a knack which too
many Presidents have been ures
able to master.
HARMONY: He carriese no
deep or lasting grudges against
class or section or group with
him, as so many of his predeces-
sors did. He has no faith in puri
ges, factional strife, dog-housing
certain elements of the partyM
nation for personal or political
reasons.
He seems sincere when he
talks of unity" if only becauN