Evening star., 1950-10-18
Lynch Charges Dewey
Committed Felony in
Han|ey Letter Affair
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Oct. lS.-DemO.
cratic charges that Gov. Dewey
committed felony under New
York State law in an alleged Re.
publican nomination deal rocked
the political scene today.
The Governors Democratic op-
ponent, Representative Walter A
Lynch, last night accused Gov
Dewey of violating a specific sec
ton of the State criminal code
barring a candidate from barter
ing for Office.
He said the recently disclosed
letter written by 1t. Gov. Joe R
Hanley, now Republican Senate
candidate, showed that Gov
Dewey was guilty of criminal dis
regard of the laws of the State
and the mandates of decency.' -
He demanded Gov. Dewey's i'm
peachment and prosecution.
Gov. Dewey, running for a third
term, has denied unqualifiedly
that cash or promises of appoint
rnent were used to get Mr.. Hanley
to withdraw from the Governors S
race, to pave the way for Dewey's S
denomination.
CIO Enters Dispute.
In Buffalo, Hugh Thompson,
head of the CIO Greater Buffalo
Industrial Union Council, said he
will demand a special legislative
session to consider impeaching
Gov. Dewey and Mr.. Hanley if
they don't resign.
A meeting of the council, rep
resenting 100000 workers. last
night voted resolution demand
ing that they resign "as persons
unfit to hold public office any place
in our American system of Gov
eminent"
Campaigning today in the Hud-
son River Valley, Gov. Dewey said
that ne planned to discuss the
Hanley letter further in State
wide broadcast tonight.
Referring to his Democratic op-
~ponents as these Tammany Hall
crooks" the Governor said, to
night, I am going to rub their
noses in their own smear"
Charges Whisper Campaign.
The Democrats, Gov. Dewey
said, had no intention of releasing
the copy of the letter they OBJ
tanned. Instead, he said, they
planned to use its contents in
whispering campaign throughout
the State.
Gov. Demey said Mr.. Hanley's
opponents think Hanley fool if
he is not rich
Nobody on the Republican
ticket is rich" the Governor
added. IF by any catastrophe the
Democrats got in, there would be
no more poor men running the
State"
Mr.. Hanley himself took to the
air last night to deny any i'm
proper significance to a letter
he wrote last September 5
after a conference with Gov.
Dewey. In the letter. he said
he had received "unalterable prop
ositions'' that would enable him
to pay off his debts in 80 days if
he dropped out of the Governor S
race and ran for the Senate.
Although Mr.. Hanley himself
released the letter, he apparently
acted because copies had fallen
into Democratic hands. When Mr..
Lynch was asked last night how
his party got a copy, he Sadi:
There are a great number OF
Republicans who have no use
for Tom Dewey"
Letter Written to Macy.
The letter was written to Rep
resentative w. Kingsland Macy,
Suffolk County Republican leader.
Published reports said that Mr..
Macy, long at odds with Gov.
Dewey and a supporter Of Mr..
Hanley for Governor, showed the
letter to friends.
Gov. Dewey said he had not
talked to Mr.. Macy and didn't
intend to. MI. Macy has refused
comment.
Last night, in an emotional IS
minute talk the 74-year-old Mr..
Hanley called Democratic charges
"a new low in political smears."
Nobody has given me a nickel,
since the nomination or before, y
he said. He insisted he bowed out
of the race solely because he
thought Gov Dewey was the bet
ter man in the present emergency.
Mr.. Hanley said Gov. Dewey
never discussed finances with him,
and as for the letter, 'if there
was anything crooked in it, or
anything crooked intended by it,
or anything crooked suggested by
tt wouldn't have written it. I
have more sense than that"
Republicans Split.
Some anti-Dewey Republicans
Joined Mr.. Lynch in criticism that
split State party ranks and cast
shadow on the November 7 elec-
ton.
1t was a novel experience for
Gov. Dewey, who began his pub
lie career as the famed racket
buster" of the '30S and who made
clean politics the keynote of his
State administrations and two
White House campaigns.
Mr.. Lynch, speaking from a
farm rally in Westchester County
said both Gov. Dewey and Mr.
Hanley conspired to violate a New
York law prohibiting the barter
ing of offices.
The abject confession of then
perfidy as contained in the Hanley
letter is proof of undeniable guilt,
Mr.. Lynch said They must both
withdraw from the race"
1t was the stiffest speech ot
Mr.. Lynch's campaign. 1t bristlec
with legal threats and hard name
calling.
Sees Confession of Sim"
circumstances and duty COM