The Pittsburgh Press (October 28, 1944)
Dewey’s record cited –
Wallace assails ‘Doubting Thomas’
Detroit, Michigan (UP) –
Vice President Henry A. Wallace told industrial Detroit last night that the greatest asset this nation has to lick post-war problems at the peace table and on the home front is President Roosevelt, whom he said had the vision, courage and leadership to put new economic freedom into effect.
Mr. Wallace called for voters to examine closely the records of President Roosevelt and Governor Thomas E. Dewey before going to the polls. He said that after such an examination they would not find it hard to answer the serious question, “Shall the man in the White House be the man of words, doubting Thomas Dewey, or shall it be the man of action, Mr. Roosevelt?”
“Roosevelt will win the election because the people see in him the better man of the two, to carry on in war and peace,” Mr. Wallace said in his sixth speech of a three-day Michigan tour. The address, although revised shortly before his appearance, was an elaboration of speeches made outstate yesterday and today.
Mr. Wallace said the “record of Doubting Thomas is short.”
He said:
He doubted his Commander-in-Chief. Before Pearl Harbor, he doubted an all-out preparedness as a necessary guarantee of the dignity and freedom of America. And he doubts himself as he measures post-war problems through a Wall Street attorney’s eyes.
Examine this choice in all seriousness. Can you see this Doubting Thomas surrounded by men of great learning at the peace table? I need say no more.