GOVERNOR DEWEY NOMINATED

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 234, 30 June 1944, Page 4

GOVERNOR DEWEY NOMINATED

American Presidency REPUBLICAN PARTY CAMPAIGN (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received Juno 29, 9.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, Juue 29. Mr. Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York, was nominated at the Republican Party’s convention in Chicago as the candidate for the Presidency of the United States. He was nominated iu the first ballot, the voting in which was 1056 to one. The solitary vote was of Mr. Grant Rutter, Wisconsin, who cast his vote for General MacArthur. Governor John W. Bricker, of Ohio, withdrew his candidature as soou as Mr. Dewey's name was placed in the nomination, and the convention unanimously nominated Mr. Bricker for Vice-President. "A change of Administration next January cannot and will not involve any. change iu the military conduct of the war," said Mr- Dewey in a speech accepting nomination of the Presidency. "America must pot repeat the mistakes of 1919, when we won the war but it didn’t stay won. This time we must also win the purpose for which we are fighting. Germany must never again nourish the delusion that she could have won. We must carry to Japan a defeat so crushing and complete that every last Japanese knows he has been beaten. We must not merely defeat the armies and navies of our enemies. We must, defeat once .and for all their will to make war. “We are all agreed that America will participate with the other sovereign nations in a co-operative effort to prevent future wars. We shall make sacrifices to achieve a really lasting peace, but this is not a task to be entrusted to stubborn men grown old, tired and quarrelsome in office. We learnt tha't in 1919.” Promising to bring an end to “one-man government of the United States,” Mr. Dewey declared that only through electing a young and vigorous Republican Administration could Americans attain lasting peace and economic stability. Foreign Policy Factions.

The “New York Times” in an editorial, says the Republican Party still contains a strong isolationist faction, represented by certain die-hard Mid-western newspapers, and also contains an anti-isola-tionist faction. Unless Mr. Dewey succeeds in making clear to the last doubter that his sympathies are with the second group many independents otherwise favourably disposed will find it difficult to support him. “The Chicago convention will stand out in history as th? hottest in weather and coolest in enthusiasm,” says the “New York Times” Chicago correspondent. “A five-minute demonstration which was accorded Mr. Dewey when he appeared on thp platform lacked spontaneity and oral hoopadoop. Indeed, without the stadium organ and band it would have been almost mute; there was little shouting, aud many of the delegates did not bother to remove the cigars, cigarettes and pipes from their mouths. Mr. Bricker earlier in the day received a more spontaneous and longer ovation.”