Dewey’s war on racketeers cited by Governor Baldwin
Bridgeport, Connecticut (UP) –
Governor Raymond E. Baldwin last night said that political bosses “have staked all they’ve got to get Tom Dewey” because the Republican presidential candidate believes in honest government by honest men and practices what he believes.
Governor Baldwin asserted that the American people should know “what are some of the forces behind” the Democratic fourth-term drive, for, he said, if the drive is successful “these same forces will… shape the program of a fourth-term administration.”
He said, however, that he would talk “not about the Communists and the corrupt political machines which are among the fourth term’s chief promoters,” but about Governor Dewey.
He said:
I know you will feel the same pride that I feel in knowing that Tammany Hall is against Governor Dewey; that Frank “I Am the Law” Hague is against Governor Dewey; that Boss Kelly in Chicago is against him – and that Boss Pendergast of Kansas City would be against him – if Boss Pendergast were not so recently out of jail.
He added:
Could anything be a greater tribute to Governor Dewey than that. All these are against him because they are against Governor Dewey’s kind of government… He believes that the place for crooks is not in politics, but in prison… He has put more bigtime crooks in jail than any living American.
Governor Baldwin asserted that Governor Dewey, after his election as Governor of New York, found that:
A sinister ring of racketeers had got their hands on the funds which were supposed to go to injured workingmen and their families.
The New York Governor broke that ring, he said, and fired corrupt officials.
“A government of integrity is the Dewey kind of government,” Mr. Baldwin said.