The Pittsburgh Press (October 26, 1944)
Cities clamor for Roosevelt
But his campaign plans are fluid
Washington (UP) –
President Roosevelt’s final campaign plans are as fluid as a drink of water and your guess is as good as that of the best-informed Washington politico about where and when he will make additional speeches.
The Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston engagements are officially fixed for tomorrow, Saturday and Nov. 4.
Detroit Democrats report that they are pressing for an appearance there. Cleveland party men have tentative but hopeful reservations on the Municipal Stadium in that city for Nov. 1 and 2.
That’s the way it is less than 24 hours before Mr. Roosevelt leaves for Philadelphia with way stops in Wilmington, Delaware; Camden, New Jersey, and Germantown, Pennsylvania.
The question before the house – the White House – probably is this: Whether it would be good politics to make a consecutive series of three or four speeches or better politics to make a couple in Philadelphia and Chicago and then to return home before a second western sortie to Cleveland or Detroit.