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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1948.
TODAY THE AMERICANS WILL MAKE THEIR BIG DECISION
"Middle"
Truman
The word "middle" has to be used over and over again in any description of President Truman and is, perhaps, the key to his character and
carcer.
Of middle-class brickground, he the middle of the tumes froin Mkidle West and largely owes hla political advancement
tho
-middle-of-the-road position which he has firmly taken on national
issues.
This doen not mean that Pro- sident Truman has the reputa. tion of being a trimmer-a shrewd politican who chooses the middle road because it in
politically safe.
His friends say that he just thinks that way. One biographer escribed him as "n man of the dead centre politically, just es he is geographically, but he gets there not by plotting his course that way, but by a kind of zig- zag operation, in which he inoves back and forth between extremes and is consequently sighted more often in the
that place else.
centre
His political rise to the highest office in the land hus been dramafle, unexpected and swift.
A powerful political leader in Missouri politics, Tom Pen. dergast, raised him speedily up the ladder of local polltler and eventually sent tim to the Bonate in 1934, where heat. tracted little attention until the war.
Then he became a nationwide Ngure ቤን the Chairman of the Committee Investigating the war
HARRY S. TRUMAN.
Candidates Agree In Wanting All To Vote
production programme will what The was regarded generally us out- standing honesty, perserverunco and balance.
Washington, November 1.
The tumult and shouting of the US Presidential com- paign has died away. Candidates join tonight in appealing to the voters to get out and voto. major decision for some 50,000,000 or more Americans is whether they want Democratic President Harry Truman or Republican Gover" nor Thomas E. Dewey of New York to take over the job as US President.
America considers this the fand
He has frequently stated that į he never wanted the Jub of being i President and his friends belleve hin. It all started when he was chase to be the Vice-Presidential candidate of the Democratic Party number one job in the world nombres.
the d's important i
Republican
Presidential
in the 1944 election, when Pre-at this time of uneasy peace. Large numbers will heed the sident Roosevelt was expected to Almbst
nppeals of Henry A. Wallace, the live for al tenst another four question of which major party Progressive Purty Prosklential years to see the nation through will control the sharply con-candidate who calls for a friendly the problems of peace-malting and post-war reconstruction.
tested Senate.
approach to Russia, and the State
Strom Thurmond, who
broke
Page
Governor P&O B.I. E&A
Dewey
The Republican Presidentini Governor Thomas candidate,
Dewey, of New York, if elected today will be the first United States President to be born in the 20th century. He wns born in Michigan in 1902, the son of a local postmaster.
Qualities usually attributed to this brikk and dapper man by his friends and in the press are those usually associated with the words "Twentieth Century" phlny enleula- streamiling, selentine.
tion. brilliant efficiency, split second political timing, last detail organisation,
On
Throughout his campaign for the Presidency, his Leging have almost always run
time. Living in the cramped sleeping compartments of traina, socom- panying newspapermen have found their laundry picked up
At one
delivered point and spotless at another.
COMPANIES
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15th Nov, from Japan.
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2.2. "CARTHAGE"
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Hin detractors have erlületsed him as n mechanical man, human nulomaton, mainly con- cerned with power andl vates.
Mr. Dewey Arst came to nation- al and worldwide attention as the
who special prosecutur,
In the late 30's cleaned out the gangs- ters, who were then the scourge of New York City,
won
His achievements then him the District Attorneyship of New York and in 1942 the Gay- ernorship. In 1944 he was over- whelmingly defeated in his fight for the Presidency against Prest- dent Roosevelt and some predict- et that he would never recover from the blows and destructive criticism which were levelled against him in that campaign.
However, in the Republican Convention In Philadelphia this summer he was again chosen As the Republican candidate and as the leader of the mare liberal and progressive mem- bers of that Party. He has con- ducted his Presidential campaign with Infinite care and caution, speaking most the time as if were already President. elect. He had to be careful what he sld, because it would commit the foreign and domas. tio policies of the United Stator for the next four years of hle administration,
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Major remaining event- before / Bights Democrats capukate.At one time" an opponent of
Senator Truman was then the balloting are the traditional away from the Truman Demo- Lend-Lease to Britain in 1941 and elected by President Roosevelt Monday night appeals for every-crats i protest against the civil an advocate of a view usually as- himself and the Democratie Naone to make his citizenship count.rights programme advanced bsociated with the isolationist sec- Ilonal Convention, as a com.Mr. Truman will head a Montoy the President.
tion of the Republican Party, Mr. promise middle-of-the-road night Democratic appent over
Dewey is now a firm supporter of candidate between Mr. James America's four leading radio net- Balance of power in the Senale close relations with Britain, of the Byrnes, who was regarded asworks.
will be decided by outcome of Marshall Plan and for European raers in 11 States, where surveys
. Conservative and reactionary Two of the most popular men
by the left swing of the Democra- | who ever ran for Vien President indicated results were in doubt. / Recovery and of aid to the West-
the Party, and Mr. Henry Wal--Democratic Senator Alben They are Colorale, Illinois, Iowa, lace, who was bitterly disilked Barkley of Kentucky and Repub- Kentucky. Minnesota, Montana, as a loft wing extremist by the lican Governor Earl Warren of New Maxien, Oklahoma, Tenues- Conservative wing of the Party. California-will join in theirs, Wyoming and West Virginia. partles last minute appeals. The 80th Congress has 51 Re- Balloting will not be strictly a publican Somatoes and 45 Demo- choice between the Democratiegrats:AssociatedPress.
Because 41 his well-known |moderation in all things, however; and because the Party did not expect him to occupy any other {plice than the comparatively un- Important one of Vice-President, all sections unitet in supporting Mr. Truman as the man upon the choice of whom they could sink their differences,
all
Then unexpectedly President
Unhopeful Wallace
VOTING PROCEDURE
Mr. Henry Agard Wallace, 60- Under the American Con-
Roosevelt died in the spring of year-old former Cabinet Minister stitution, the Joan who receives
1045 and Mr. Truman bernme
President, with not only the and Vice-President under Frank-
power, but as events turned out gressive Party in this year's elec- not necessarily elected
lin Roosevelt, leads the new Pro-the largest number of votes is
the compulsion of putting his
expectation of
midrile-of-the-rond solution intoj tion. He admitted in advance dent. practice, or at least into legisia-that he has no tive proposals.
winning.
Presi-
This is because the voters do
He was Mr. Roosevelt's per- not ballot directly for the Pre- Instead of staying in Washing-sonal choice for the Vice-Presl-sidential candidates themselves. lon and standing on his record dent condidacy in 1040, when Mr.The election is not a plebiscite, he conceivably could have done, Roosevelt was running for his They vole for electors in cach he has travelled about 35,000 third term.
miles, talked to six million peo- But In 1944, Bir. Roosevelt Stale to cast the electoral votes ple and delivered 250 speeches.-chose Harry Truman to be Vice-of hut State.
Reuter.
"Admirable Crichton"
Each
State has A certain number of electoral votes, based on its representation. It has as Bena- many electors as it hat- toes and Members of the House
Representatives.
ern European Union.-Reuter.
Thomas E. Dewey
Popular Warren
Handsome, strapping Gov- There are 86 Senators and 434ernor Earl Warren, the Repub-
President instead. Mr. Wallace had brought down heavy criticism from the right wing of the De- mocratic Party for his Progres. sive views, and his continuance in office would have caused heavy strain on the unity of the Party.
Today, he claims to be the true На successor to Mr. Roosevelt.
a. wilting, total of 531 electoral votes, of date, has provided the human' unwitting
of being
follower of which 266 are needed for a Pres-touch in the campaign for the Alben Barkley, Mr. Truman's the Communist Party "line." idential candidats to be elected. election of a Republican Ad- running-mate, the reputation of He has refrained from repudiat-
ministration under Mr. Thomas being the Democratic Party's "nd-ing that support; but he has flatly A candidate who receives a
Dewey. mirable Crichton." He has served denied that the Communists majority of the votes of the citi- many political masters with un- dictate his party polleles or pro-zens deviating loyalty, and only ones grammes.-Reutor.
Unquestioned loyalty over the is accused widely in the United Representatives, which makes, allcan Vice-Presidential candi-
43 years in which he has been in States politics has earned for Senator for
dild he ever question what they had done. It was little wonder that his selection as the Party's Vice-Presidential canditiato this
your, was received with such ac- claim.
Socialist Thomas
in an individual Stato is The great political asset. of the given the entire electoral votes of energetic and good tempered, '87- the State. Thus, whether one per year-old Governor of California cent, or 90 per cent, of the votes during the weeks of speech- in Illinois are cast for, say, Gov-making tours from the East to bis ernor Thomas Dewey, the entire lown beloved West Coast, has been number of electoral votes are that ha offset, the less hearty and counted to his credit.
less popular personality of Mr. Dewey.
This system of "electoral col. lege voting" In effect means that, the candidates for tho Presidency tend to concentrata 'their election'sâmpaigns in our tain koy Blates with large num- bers of slectoral votom, such as New York, which controls 47.
Thi
Although a
Mr. Republican, Warren
Democratio was the candidate, too, when he was elected Governor of California In 1948 with the votes of hun- dreds of thousands of Demo crats." Hejhas also, won popul- fkrity with the, mera- moderato New Dealers for his support of Progressive social legislation in California
Those who left the Philadelphia' Convention Hall with doubts of Mr. Norman Thomas, Socialist the wisdom of President Tru-candidate, aged 64, has become man's,selection as the Preskient- almost as much a part of the ial candidate, entertained no such American scene as the National thoughts over the gray holred, Anthem.
This Socialist loader has stood ageing, but vigorous and slappor Benator Barkley.
six times for the Presidency. Each time he has watched his At 14. lie is still, a man of trickle of votes-washed away in energy, and one of the most, the torrent of the Republicans This is bec
because the contest i knowledgeable of the Democratic and Democrats. In the last oleo- usually clost in the struggle for hierarchy, Although his cam-;|tion, he got 80,000 yales" to 25,- the voles of these populous States,
His 'standing with the increa paign managers organised no such 000,000 cast for Mr. Frankin and by just tipping the scales with exacting spooking tours as that Roosevelt.
a 51 per cent majority, the can- singly, large proportion of colour for Mr. Truman, Senator, Bark Ils general after-election acdidates can win a large numbered votes in California improved during the war when as Attorney ley on election ove born no evi-ion is to murmur "It might have of electoral votes,
PATAN 2006) boen, worse. dance of strain:
General he firmly suppreased the riota:
against Mexicans, and -- Ne- He was Majority Leader for ton| Mr. Thomas with a certain ganjority of the electoral votes, for groes- · In Los Angeles year-six years longer than any amiabile affection, have sean him President, the House of Repre Like Governor, Dewey, he made one else in Democratic history, rug für Aldɛemki hiid Mayor of gentatives choose: President his early reputation as a ruckaj Fund a record cút, short by the Re- New York City, Governor of New from among the three highest breaking and gang busting. At-
publican victory, d. 1040,–Neuter. Yerli s
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