Dewey to speak in New York tonight
GOP nominee to summarize campaign issues; election eve speech planned
Albany, New York (UP) –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey brings to a white heat tonight his campaign to enter the White House next January and conduct “the greatest housecleaning in the history of Washington.”
The Republican presidential candidate will speak in Madison Square Garden at New York City before the last big GOP rally of the campaign.
KDKA and WJAS will broadcast the speech at 10:30 p.m. EWT.
Mr. Dewey will return to Albany tomorrow and will make a final speech from the Executive Mansion Monday night over all networks. It is expected to stress principally the importance of voting in Tuesday’s presidential election.
To summarize issues
Mr. Dewey will return to New York Tuesday to vote.
The campaign windup rally in Madison Square Garden is traditionally devoted to a summarization of campaign issues. For this Mr. Dewey has laid the groundwork in 20 major speeches from Boston to Los Angeles.
Mr. Dewey has argued that “it’s time for a change” by charging:
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That the Roosevelt administration has grown “tired and quarrelsome in office.”
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That it has strangled private enterprise and failed to provide jobs under a peacetime economy.
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That it had employed secret diplomacy in foreign relations.
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That it has abrogated for political gain the right of collective bargaining.
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That it has sold out the Democratic Party to “subversive forces.”
Pledges listed
He promised, if elected, to replace it with an administration which would:
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“Bring an end to the quarreling and bickering and confusion in the nation’s capital,” and foster “harmonious action between the President and the Congress.”
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Eliminate “unnecessary burdens and handicaps placed by government upon the job-making machinery of our economic system” and lower individual and corporate income taxes.
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Merge all labor agencies into one, “take the hand of government off free collective bargaining, choose a Secretary of Labor “from the ranks of labor” and provide jobs for all.
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Extend social security to “those who most desperately need protection and are not now covered.”
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Be “free from the influence of Communists and domination of corrupt big city machines.”
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Protect farmers “against extreme fluctuation of prices” without “dictation and control by his own government.”
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Retain in command Army and Navy leaders to whom he credits military victories, restore unity which would “speed victory” and bring home and release members of the Armed Forces “at the earliest practical moment after victory.”
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Carry on the fight until the military might of Germany and Japan is crushed, and establish “a world organization in which all nations may share as sovereign equals, to deal with future threats to the peace of the world.”
In the three major speeches at Louisville, Kentucky; New York City, and Minneapolis, Mr. Dewey went farther than any Republican candidate in history. He proposed that the peace organization be set up as rapidly as possible instead of waiting for military victory. He argued that only Congress can determine the scope of U.S. participation in such an organization but he advocated that participation be undertaken without “reservations that would nullify” is power to act speedily to halt aggression using force if necessary.
Mr. Dewey, returning from a final campaign swing through Maryland and Pennsylvania spent a quiet day at the Executive Mansion in Albany yesterday putting the finishing touches on tonight’s speech.