Dewey and Bricker Pull Different Ways
SPIVACK, ROBERT G.
Dewey and Bricker Pull Different Ways By Robert G. Spivack THE high command of tha Republican campaign ia finding Again this year that you can't just aay "boo" and knock That Man out of...
...They really think they are for America Arst...
...The situation is somewhat analogous to liberals and the New Deal...
...Brickei took a tailor-made speech, faahiened by Dewey'a "ex pert a" and threw it in the waate-baaket...
...The MrCormlck-Paltersen thinkers are afraid that Dewey is pulling a Willkie on them...
...But still he plays the game tagily...
...First the three Governors refused to read the radio speeches the New York publicity experts had written for them...
...Dewey isn't repudiating either, if he can help it...
...Finally the Philadelphia convention hall on the occasion of his opening campaign address was only four-fifths full...
...He knew that Klan and America Firsters were leading the fight against Willkie and acting in his behalf...
...He struck a belligerent pose, interrupted Bricker...
...He will boldly repudiate them—especially if the pressure gets hot...
...And Gerald Smith's middle-aged mammies panted: "If only Handsome John was the front and Dewey the rear...
...Bricker, the Slicker, they call him in Ohio...
...Dewey came out in praise of the Dumbarton Oaks conference, after he had raised the "small nations" scare...
...He resisted for some time -because of a pledge to county Republican leaders that he would not intervene in purely local affairs...
...Dewey and Bricker Pull Different Ways By Robert G. Spivack THE high command of tha Republican campaign ia finding Again this year that you can't just aay "boo" and knock That Man out of the White House...
...not the slightest doubts about Dewey's genuine personal distaste for anti-Semitism and other manifestations of racism...
...Hut Dewey is •art of resigned to let Bricker carry the fight to the Old Dealers wjiile he tries to appeal on Die youth vs...
...Numerous other times Dewey had been asked to comment on newspaper stories...
...Were Bricker the presidential nominee, his strategy would be entirely different...
...But he would never commit such an error as to welcome the support of any known fascist group or a discredited leader like Lewis...
...The Hamilton Fish episode was another example...
...meddling," go after Eleanor, New Deal spending, etc., etc, ad nauseam...
...Considerable pressure, from liberal Republican quarters, was being put on Dewey to rid bin.self of the Fish odor...
...Whereas Dewey feels their support will be more than offset, should their voting tendencies be exposed in the liberal press...
...But there ia a more fundamental conflict in process...
...Maybe Liz Dilliag had aomething whea she said that "Dewey weakens the ticket...
...But apparently he could not risk telling them off...
...As the campaign geta under way, the boys have never quite gotten together on what's what...
...Asked if he welcomed Lewis' support, he sagely observed: "That's the way you win elections...
...While Dewey is anxioua for the nine eastern states' electoral votes, Bricker probably would have concentrated on the Midwest, with excursion into the deep fiouth...
...candidates...
...quarrelsome old-men line...
...No matter what he thinks about unions, he will shake hands with John L. Lewis—even if it's only to get Lewis' own vote...
...This is the aaain difference at the moment between Dewey and Bricker: Dewey wants s subtle campaign...
...and asked where and when Lewis had declared himself for the G.O.P...
...ticket I have no inside track on what took place between the two gentlemen after that but I do know that if a similar faux pas takes place during the vest of the campaign, the feelings between Admiral Kimmel and Ceneral Short at Pearl Harbor will seem the height of cordianity compared to those between Admiral Dewey and General Bricker...
...When he threw Fish overboard, he took the unusual procedure of commenting on an interview Fish had given to the New York I'ogt...
...But the difference is this: Bricker thinks they represent a liiable segment of voters...
...I'll write my ewn," he told Dewey...
...But for the short-run...
...Of couree, he isn't...
...But Dewey was aghast...
...Dewey is told here by Robert Spivark, political reporter of the N. Y. Post who ia traveling with the Bricker caravan...
...Bricker favors an all-out plunge through the line...
...He did not repudiate (ierald L. K. Smith until the evening of the Wisconsin primaries last April, after the votes had been counted...
...But he usually refrained, and never was known to leap at an opportunity with such an obvious sigh of relief...
...the "socialistic totalitarian bureaucracy" (from a talk at Mitchell, Ind...
...He ain't in a repudiatin' mood," one Hoosier politician said as Bricker began his midwestern tour—with Senator Jim Watson of Klan fame traveling right along in the official party through Southern Indiana...
...He's * firm believer in psychological warfare...
...The atory of Mr...
...Hut Ihey don't like this busineaa of rhoosing a man like Dulles, with an international affairs background (although it haa been mostly on a business oasis) te get friendly with Hall...
...Part of tha confusion is purposeful, i.e., no one in the high command wants too public to understand too fully what it's all about or be inspired more than to blindly follow the Leaders...
...the Republican Party will not get very far this year with one candidate trying to art enlightened while the other thumpa for Blark Reaction...
...the tail snd ef the Elephant, gave a paah to Mr...
...During the same press conference someone pointed out that John L. Lewis was for the Republican ticket...
...The basic difference in their approaches was demonstrated on that fateful day last summer when Bricker told reporters, as Dewey sat painfully by on the porch of Albany's Executive Mansion, that, of course, Oral.I L. K. Smith's vote would be counted the same as any one else's if he voted the G.O.P...
...But when Fish started going off the deep-end about W'o of the Jews being for the New Deal—because they were Jews—then Dewey got busy...
...The thing Dewey doesn't understand is that Met ix miik and these other fanatira Iske a serious view »f the way the country ia being ruined by the New Dealers...
...Bricker registered no surprise or horror...
...Tha Important question—over-all strategy—ia getting quite tangled up aa the campaign progresses...
...The Republican campaign, I believe, has gotten off to a bad start...
...I HAVF...
...They are beginning to wander (and express themselves) as to whether Dewey is net last for Dewey first...
...BRICKER-SLICKER LaST week Job, W. Bricker...
...He favors the good old kind of rip snorting, bang-up affair...
...Dewey, the front part...
...For a long-term campaign, Dewey's strategy is probably sounder...
...He favors creating an atmosphere of suspicion against the New Deal...
...Bricker and Mr...
...Both Dewey and Bricker know that the America Firsters, We, the Mothers, and others of the fascist furies have nowhere else to go...
...If Bricker headed the ticket, the crude enthusiasm he would inspire among hia workers would be something terrifying...
Vol. 27 • September 1944 • No. 39
