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Fortnight ago the Milwaukee's Olympian carried Presidential Candidate Thomas Edmund Dewey up the mountain. Behind him lay 1) a record as a racket-buster so phenomenal that people were tired of hearing about it; 2) a record as a politician based on the narrow margin (about 64,000 votes) by which he was defeated for the Governorship of New York in 1938; 3) a favorite's position as voters' preconvention choice-56%, according to the Gallup poll-in the race for the Republican nomination. And before him, besides the Western ranges, lay a series of talks...
Last week Candidate Dewey got back from the hopeful country to the cynical city of New York. In eleven and a half days he had traveled 7,500 miles, appeared on the rear platform of his train at 48 Western stations, made 36 impromptu station platform speeches (three of them in snowstorms, and one, in La Grande...
...Indians and had been serenaded in Portland, Ore., by a fife & drum corps of Civil War veterans whose leader was 95. His secretary, yclept Lemoyne Jones in the effete East, became plain Lem Jones as soon as he was west of the mountains. Like all Presidential candidates, Candidate Dewey came back with fine words to say for the strong, intelligent and courageous people he had seen on his junket. He was still in the mood of his Minneapolis speech two months ago when he stepped from the train, exclaimed: "This is good Republican weather." But unlike most, Candidate Dewey...
...Gradual was the ascent. At Aberdeen, S. Dak., where 2,479 farms spread over Brown County produce 2,026,300 bushels of wheat a year, where 1,500 appeared beside the tracks, Candidate Dewey's hopeful note was muted. ("The country is young; it's only started. If we go to work...
...Candidate Dewey drove through a blizzard from Butte to Helena, where in 70 miles there are abandoned mines, a school for the feeble-minded and one town with 760 souls, one with 250, one with 125, and one with 68. At Helena, where the Parade of the Vigilantes is an annual affair, where Main Street runs along the bottom of Last Chance Gulch, and where natives eke out a meagre existence from gold, copper & silver mines, sheep & cattle ranches, the production of wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, etc., 1,000 of the city's 11,800 turned out to make...