Mississippi law checks electors
Jackson, Mississippi (UP) –
The Mississippi Legislature today completed its approval of an emergency law guaranteeing the state’s nine electoral votes to the Roosevelt-Truman ticket in Tuesday’s election and sent it to Governor Thomas E. Bailey for his signature.
This was only a matter of form, however, since the Governor himself called the extraordinary session of the General Assembly after three Democratic electors announced that they would vote for Senator Harry Byrd (D-VA), instead of Mr. Roosevelt.
Both houses of the assembly approved in the special session yesterday a bill permitting the drafting of up to five replacements for the three dissident electors.
Ickes: Dewey ‘man nobody for’
Baltimore, Maryland (UP) –
Secretary of the Interior Ickes charged last night that the Republicans are waging a “negative” campaign and that Governor Thomas E. Dewey is the man “nobody is for.”
He told the Maryland Committee for Roosevelt and Truman that he had “challenged speaker after speaker to give us any reasons why we should vote for Dewey” but had received no answer.
He said:
The truth is that the Republicans aren’t for anything or anybody. They have a consistent record of being against.
Mr. Ickes renewed his attack on the people “inside Dewey’s Trojan horse,” who he described as “a prize group of isolationists and rabblerousers.”