The Pittsburgh Press (October 31, 1944)
Christian Science Monitor endorses Dewey
Boston, Massachusetts (UP) –
The Christian Science Monitor today endorsed the presidential candidacy of Governor Thomas E. Dewey in the belief that “changing horses is the best way to get across the streams ahead.”
In 1940, the Monitor favored Wendell Willkie for President.
Asserting that “we do not believe that Franklin Roosevelt is going to make himself a dictator,” the Monitor said that nevertheless “long tenure smothers alternative leadership. The third term was advocated as a necessity in a crisis. So is a fourth. Will there be no grave national problems in 1948?”
Long tenure, the Monitor added, develops a “papa knows best attitude which is the antithesis of democracy.”