The Pittsburgh Press (October 18, 1944)
Brownell: Democrats jittery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (UP) –
Commenting on the announcement that President Roosevelt will speak in Philadelphia Oct. 27, Herbert Brownell Jr., Republican National Chairman, said yesterday that “the jitters in the Democratic high command seem to have reached to the White House.”
Mr. Brownell, who conferred with Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Republican leaders, told a press conference “we are going to roll up the largest Republican vote in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia since the New Deal came into power.”
Asked if he meant that the Republicans would carry these two cities, Mr. Brownell said he meant just what he said and would not elaborate. President Roosevelt carried both cities in 1936 and 1940.
Mr. Brownell praised the leadership of Governor Edward Martin and said Pennsylvania Republicans are concentrating on an old-fashioned Republican majority in the Keystone state in November.