If nominee dies, here’s routine
Washington (UP) –
The Democratic and Republican National Committees would name presidential or vice-presidential candidates if either post on the party tickets were vacated by death, resignation or for other reasons between the time of their nomination and the meeting of the Electoral College, officials said today.
Electoral votes are counted on Jan. 3 following each presidential election to choose the President-elect and the Vice President-elect.
If a vacancy should occur in the office of President-elect between the counting of the electoral votes and the date of inauguration, the Vice President-elect would become President.
Discussion of this situation was precipitated by Tuesday’s accident involving the train carrying Republican presidential nominee Thomas E. Dewey on a cross-country campaign tour.
‘Landon with mustache,’ Ickes says of Dewey
Washington (UP) –
Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes today described Republican presidential nominee Thomas E. Dewey as “a Landon with a mustache” and said he hoped the GOP nominee would keep up his speaking tour.
Mr. Ickes said that he intended to make several campaign speeches and would pick Mr. Dewey’s Cabinet for him in a Pittsburgh address Sunday.