AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 50, 1 March 1939, Page 6

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

THE success which has attended District-Attorney T. E. Dewey’s efforts to suppress various racketeering operations in New York has raised him to the position of a national personality and has engendered the belief that lie would make a good Republican candidate for I be Presidency. On present showing he has as much chance of obtaining the Republican nomination as any other man on the stage of public life in America. If he can swing New York State lie should have a more favourable chance of winning to the White House, but it must be remembered that New York State is the home State of President Roosevelt and that he succeeded to the Presidency notwithstanding the corruption which occurred under a Democratic Mayor of New York who had to be removed. It should also be remembered that the corruption of Tammany, far from being a handicap to Roosevelt, gave him an early opportunity to reveal his quality for, in his first year at Albany, he led a small band of Democratic legislators, who refused to accept the Tammany Hall candidate for election to the U.S. Senate, William F. Sheehan. Roosevelt declared boldly that such a man was unfit, by his character and close association with predatory traction corporations, for a place in the Legislature. The corruption which District-Attorney Dewey has recently uncovered may, therefore, be insufficient to unsettle Roosevelt’s strong following in New York should he choose to run for a third term of office.