Word: deweymen
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...turned down the national chairmanship this year, before it was handed to New Jersey's Guy Gabrielson. Darby wrenched control of Kansas' Republican delegation from Alf Landon last year and led it on to the Dewey bandwagon-and was one of the rare few who warned Deweymen that the Republicans might lose the 1948 election...
...Deweymen forces were completely routed. In a radio interview, retiring Chairman Scott admitted: "I certainly don't think that Mr. Dewey ought to run in 1952." New York's Committeeman J. Russel Sprague, who ran the Dewey floorshow in Philadelphia, put it more bluntly: "We New Yorkers . . . won't have a candidate in 1952. We'll just sit back and get some of the loving for a change...
Said he: "We now know that Governor Dewey will carry New York State by 50,000 and will be the next President of the United States." Deweymen sighed in relief. Everything was all right, after all. A rumor swept the ballroom that Dewey was on his way down for a victory speech before the television cameras. But Dewey did not appear. Doubt crept back. News came that Truman was taking a lead in Ohio and Iowa, was surging up in California. Deweymen hung on, drank large amounts of whiskey with glum, unhappy concentration...
...that first defeat only made Grundy, Owlett & Co. more determined than ever to unseat the rebel. Scenting the fight, Deweymen rushed in to exploit the Grundy-Owlett wrath. It was an incongruous alliance. In the very week that Tom Dewey was urging reciprocal trade extension in Boston, Grundy's Doylestown Daily Intelligencer was editorially burning free-trade heretics at the stake. It was not that Joe Grundy distrusted Tom Dewey less; it was a case of distrusting Jim Duff more...
...President. More exactly, it is a time for statesmanship in the White House and Arthur Vandenberg is clearly and predictably a statesman. Thus he is esteemed in all quarters except those envenomed by the Chicago Tribune or perverted by fellow travelers. In New Hampshire, for example, many Deweymen and Stassenmen were second-choice Vandenbergmen. In sum, the private conversations of many GOP wise men were expressed by Pundit Walter Lippmann. Said he: "There is no doubt that Vandenberg is now the man on whom the active candidates could most readily come together ... of no other man can it be said...