Warren asks fair play, candid discussion of issues
Los Angeles, California (UP) –
Governor Earl Warren of California last night opened the 1944 presidential election campaign of Governor Thomas Dewey, declaring the Republican Party intended to wage its political fight on a fair-play basis.
He said:
We shall neither hide our own purposes nor seek or misrepresent our opponents. The people are entitled to a candid, sincere discussion of election issues, and we on our part propose to engage in that kind of discussion.
Governor Warren declared the Republicans were not fighting a negative or destructive fight.
The California Governor said he believed the rules of fair play should apply with equal force to each side.
He declared:
New Deal speeches should not be designated as “educational” while others of like character by Socialists and Republicans are suppressed from our fighting men as “political.”
Governor Warren said the Republican Party wanted the fair-play practice to extend to collection and expenditure of campaign funds. He added:
The Republican Party does not propose to buy this election. We insist Mr. Sidney Hillman and his committee shall not be permitted to do it either.