Word: deweyitis
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Possible presidential ambitions aside, Dewey certainly has no desire to lose his position of leadership in the Republican Party. As a bulwark of liberal Republicanism, he cannot relish the prospect of party control passing to his long-time antagonists, the midwestern Republicans...
...Dewey fought hard for his candidate, Senator Irving Ives, in the recent new York campaign. What began as a high-level, rather academic debate on the merits, or lack of them, of the Dewey administration turned into a free-for-all in the final weeks. Faced with a wholly unexpected defeat, Dewey dictated a complete turnabout in Republican campaign tactics, and Senator Ives obeyed, whatever his real feelings on the matter were. Nevertheless, the Republicans will be evacuating the State House in Albany in January...
...Dewey can now look forward to his Pawling farm and a New York law office, but not to 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue. He is on St. Helena this time, not Elba...
Meanwhile, the New York State Republican party faces the prospect of an internal struggle for power. For it is questionable whether Dewey can hope to retain even a portion of his earlier political influence. A retiring governor ordinarily has little enough power in the state organization, even if he is able to select his successor. But a governor whose hand-picked candidate goes down to defeat is likely to find himself a political outcast. The result may be a dangerous power vacuum within the state party...
...gather from the editorial pages of the Chicago Tribune. One of the lesser-known facts about the 1952. Republican convention is that there was considerable Taft sentiment in the New York delegation. It has been estimated that as many as fifty delegates were personally favorable to Taft. But when Dewey cracked the whip, the elephant performed as a good elephant should and gave almost 100 votes to Eisenhower, assuring him of the nomination. No Sabu with Dewey's skills seems to be emerging to hold the state together as well as the former governor did. Unless President Eisenhower himself decides...