U.S. ELECTIONEERING ENDS WITH DEWEY IN STRONG POSITION

Grey River Argus, 2 November 1948, Page 5

U.S. ELECTIONEERING ENDS WITH DEWEY IN STRONG POSITION

Voters go To Polis To-day

NEW YORK, October 31.

The speech-making and campaigning ended, the Democrat and Republican candidates to-day relaxed in their rural retreats.

Apart from the traditional eve-of-election non-partisan, non-political appeals to citizens to exercise their patriotic duty by voting, there will be no more speeches and the Ameri-' can people are granted two clear days from political oratory in which to decide for whom they will vote in Tuesday’s election for the President of the United States.

Mr. Henry Wallace conducted a kerb-stone speaking tour through Brooklyn, New York, but, according to United Press estimates, his probable vote has shrunk steadily in the last few days from 5,000,000 to about 2,000,000. NEW YORK MEETINGS'

The election candidates have wound up theii- campaigns. Mr. Dewey ended his campaign in New York, where he drew a greater and more enthusiastic crowd at Madison Square Garden than Mr. Truman did on Thursday. To the end, Mr. Dewey plugged a “unity line”, while Mr. Truman, still confident, continued to hurl invective at the Republicans in his last formal campaign speech at St. Louis, Missouri, his home State.

New York State was the scene last week of high pressure campaigns by the two major candidates in efforts to capture the State’s all important 47 electoral college votes. New York State has a total enrolment exceeding 7,000,000, and observers predict that Mr. Dewey will take the State with a majority of 500,000. No candidate has lost New York and won the Presidency since Mr. Woodrow Wilson was re-elected in 1916. Mr. Truman is at a disadvantage through losses to Mr. Wallace. It is recalled that Mr. Roosevelt would have lost New York in 1944 without the support of the American Labour Party, which is now supporting Mr. Wallace.

It is expected that Many Jewish Democrats will refrain from voting through dissatisfaction with Mr. Truman’s Palestine policy.