Word: deweyitis
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...Hanley letter," which Joe Hanley, the present lieutenant governor and current G.O.P. candidate for senator, wrote to one of his supporters, uncovered the story of his withdrawal in favor of Dewey just before the Republican state convention in September. Last June Dewey had said that he wanted to retire from office, and Hanley then became the only candidate for the Republican nomination for governor...
...variety of reasons--including the Korean war and the weakness of Hanley's candidacy--Dewey changed his mind, but there was strong upstate support for Hanley. After public pressure and private meetings, however, Hanley agreed to withdraw in favor of Dewey for governor and instead take the senatorial nomination against the Democrats' top vote-getter, Herbert H. Lehman...
Somehow Hanley's letter, in which he said his financial obligations would be cleared up if he switched to the senate race, got into Democratic hands so that the G.O.P. released it themselves to take the edge off the news. In the opinion of many, Dewey no longer seems like an "able executive" after the Hanley affair but more like a "cold politician who forces his will on others...
...thing that may clinch the election for Dewey could be the few thousand anti-Dewey votes that are wasted on the American Labor Party nominee. The ALP, Vito Marcantonio's group, has been widely tagged with the Red label and is not expected to draw many votes, especially since the Korean War. However, in a really close election the marginal ballots could make the difference...
...public attacks, as a result of the "Hanley letter," have all been directed at Dewey, but privately the letter has cost Hanley even more votes. In it, he describes himself as "humiliated, disappointed, and heartsick," and hardly gives the voters a favorable impression of the type of senator he would make...