European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse June 1948 the stars and stripes Page 7 nominee wins saps democrats j braise in most of press k in is id of an new june 25 few York commenting on Ibe convention and nomination of Thomas said there deep cleavages and profound differences in Republican opinion Eri important paper declared it will now be Dewey Opportunity to clarify the am big which the Philadelphia plat form reveals and give his own a Phasis and interpretation to those issues which he believes will constitute the chief business of the presidency during the next few the new York Herald Tribune can give Unity to the party without the sacrifice of Prin Oples and Unity to the nation with Cut seeking to serve incompatible gop seen nationalistic the new York daily Mirror commented the convention brought out hat this country is Jit in Friendly to Europe and Asia is unwilling to be by or weakened by and this country wants reduction to the Cost of a reduction in the weight of taxes to individual citizens and a reduction Fother authority and Power of the the new York daily i expected to support Dewey Campaign until election it would not be honest to say we Are 100 per cent in agree with everything Dewey we have Felt in the last few that he fallen too much in the Glo baloney peddled by Willkie and the los Angeles times selected an exceedingly Well favored applicant from a Field that Rich in suitable presidential tithe isolationist Chicago Tribune International Bankers have taken control of the Republican party for rate third Plain Dealier it a fiis6s Dewey becomes Republican cad Date As a result of an implied he is neither isolationist nor a Tudosy sentenced to die june 25 military commander of id pest during the German of was sentenced to death e Clare Boothe former representative from con underscores a Point As she addresses of the Republican National formula Dewey career june 25 the Story of Thomas of new York follows american he was born in 1902 in his father was the publisher of a weekly newspaper that meant Young Dewey had a fairly comfortable like Many another Young Man from the Middle Dewey came to new York to practice he soon found his Way into politics and in the 30s became District attorney in teem ing new York plagued at the time with Many organized gangs of vicious the District attorney set out to end this crime Dewey became known As the gang then he won the governorship of the political Job generally spoken of As second Only in importance to the office of pres he made his first appearance on the National scene at the Republican convention of 1940 he was regarded As a prominent contender for the but the dynamic personality of the late Wendell swept that by virtue of his 1944 nomination became titular head of the Republican and set his sights for this years Dewey accepts nomination amidst wild gop acclaim ild litter symbolize spangled democracy june 25 d the torn an the cow the corny ballads and the the Bright flags m speeches of the Republican one fact emerged Shin g Clear and pics democratic method of be a president is a thing that be seen to be it All the typewriters of the not All the tongues Sadio nor All the Little pictures the television screens can do it they offer interesting by Dorothy Kilgallen whole pan Aroma is too and too vivid and tin to be caught in or that move but Are color where this is red and 1 and in the con stand on tip its Fatchett its on you shoulders and be its crowds before see i have to have its brasses in your litter under your you have to be Able to turn your head in All directions and see want to not what another Man or a camera then you get sense that hour at this place is at once Lunatic and supremely spectacularly frivolous and yet Basi Cally As serious As any Page in any history you understand that it May look funny to silly to Vul Gar to it is the humor Aad the relaxed Quality with which the american people select their Leader is More impressive when you see it firsthand than any amount of dignity and because it is so obviously lacking in coercion or and anyone who likes to celebrate new years love the nominating because it has All the elements the the taper the red bal the men who put on Wom ens the Little stuffed toys and even the band a Jolly Good tells delegates he is unfettered from press dispatches june Thomas of new York heard the news of his unanimous nomination As gop presidential candidate in his hotel Headquarters a mile from he rushed to the Hall to accept the his ride1 to the building a triumphal procession he was almost crushed by Well wishers who formed an encircling Wall Ashe entered the More than Masset around his hotel Entrance Anc along the streets leading to the Hall in traditionally Republican Quaker town to cheer the new York Victory Grin the 46yearold gov Defeated by the late ident was the first candidate to be renominated by the republicans after having once suffered a As Dewey mounted the to be greeted by virtually every speaker As the next president the United delegates Well he was pushed and crowded by Well wishers on the packed plat but the Victory Grin on his sweating face stayed with him formerly of accompanied Ina ringing Dewey began his 10minute acceptance the elected representatives of our Republican party have again Given to me the highest Honor you can nomination for president of the United i your i am profoundly sensible of the responsibility that goes with in All i Pray god i May deserve this Opportunity to serve our mob roars the mob its and he continued i come to you unfettered a single obligation or Promise to any living free to join with you in selecting to serve our nation the finest men and women in the a free to unite our party and our country in meeting the grave Challenge of our United we can match this Chal Lenge with a depth of understand ing and a largeness of with a Unity which is re criminal above partisanship and above he lauded his High minded of and named honest Contention this there has been honest spirited disagreement and hot a but let no one be you have Given arid dra Matic proof of How americans who honestly differ their ranks arid move Forward for the nations Ivel being is not our task nor our our task is to fill our Victory with such meaning that Mankind everywhere will take heart Forward out of this desperate darkness into the Light of freedoms Dewey said the first half of the 20th Century had been marked by amazing Progress and terrible trag adding we must learn do the that is drawing to a close has been one of scientific achieve the Era that is opening be fore us must be a period of human and spiritual Dewey assured lesser industrialized nations if he were the would harness atomic Energy to raise living standards of j j i on in we have failed tall watch by television june 25 a president Truman watched by television at the White House the culminating phases the Republican National convention Thomas Dewey and Robert Taft watched from their hotel rooms in Philadelphia in our instead of guiding the course of America appears before world As i being driven from position to an the soviet communist party has meanwhile twisted into its own debased slogans the great ideas of human welfare expressed in our declaration of i depend our Bill of our emancipation proclamation and in the Constitution the United with a Halo in one hand and a Blackjack in the their leaders have lured and terrorized misguided and frightened today All these people and All those the remaining free nations wait breathlessly for american Leader so most important of All is the need of our government to launch a moral offensive which will rally the people of the world to the Case for which we ours is the cause of of of the dignity of the individual of com Mon build military might on military he said make America so Strong that no nation on Earth will dare to attack continue making atomic weapons and build our air Force into the mightiest striking in the do this peace the crowd cheered As Dewey and ribbed into his speech i let me assure you that be ginning next january 20th there will be team work in the govern ment of the United Dewey said we have found a Means to blow the world physically spiritually we have yet to find a Means to put together the worlds broken to bind up its to make a Good a Community of men of Goodwill that fits our we must solve the problem of establishing a just and lasting peace in the world and of securing to our own and other like minded people the blessings of Freedom and Opas Long As world is half promises capital House cleaning free and we must peace fully labor to help men every where achieve our platform proclaims guide posts that will Mark our steadfast and certain Endeavor in a fearful world i proudly support we must be the Means by which americas full Powers Are released and this Uncertain future filled again with Freedom can be saved if free men everywhere make this Unity their common above All other we labor peaceful Means to build a world order founded upon Justice and that kind of world will have Dewey on a note frequently heard in this convention we have lighted a Beacon Here in in this Cradle of our own we have lighted a Beacon to give eternal Hope that Man May live in Liberty with human and before god and Loving erect the ovation Given Dewey was when the commotion died w t h i n g t o n Scran Veteran in Pennsylvania presented the governor and Dewey with and american Flag made of a Delegate from Hawaii leaped onto the jammed stand to place leis about the necks of the two White House Dewey submitted to ceremony witha then stepped Back the microphone almost like jubilant roared and i thank you once very and ill be see ing House speaker Joseph mais then adjourned the con phones Mother first act after accepting the nomination was to Telephone his at his Anne Thomas asked How she Felt said How else would i feel at a time like am at news conference after Nomi Dewey said there will be no More on the payroll when he is he said will Start by having the finest House cleaning in washing ton after january you Ever Wilkies son at go convention Philip son of the late Wendell holds an informal conference on convention left to right Are Thomas state Robert and Indian t
