Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 41, DeMotte, Jasper County, 10 September 1948 — Dewey To Open Drive In lowa Speech Sept. 20 [ARTICLE]

Dewey To Open Drive In lowa Speech Sept. 20

G.O.P. Candidate To Launch Vote Drive In Corn Belt Where Truman Begins Western Tour Governor Thomas E. Dewey will touch k>ff his campaign for the presidency in lowa Sept. 20, just two days and a stone’s throw away from the launching of a Western tour by President Truman. The New York governor will make his first major speech since accepting the Republican nomination in Drake Stadium, Des Moines, on an unannounced subject. Mr. Truman will speak at Dexter, la., near Des Moines, Sept. 18. Herbert Brownell Jr., Dewey’s campaign manager, did ‘not disclose any further plans when he announced the Des Moines speech yesterday, but indications were the G.O.P. nominee would continue on to the West Coast. It appeared that Dewey would then work his way back East in easy stages, making a number of major addresses en route to Albany. While Governor Dewey made plans for his invasion of the plains states, his running mate, Governor Earl Warren of California, prepared for a tour of New England. The Massachusetts State Committee said the GOP vice-presi-dential nominee will campaign laio this month in Massachusetts, New Hampshire hiid Connecticut. While Brownell did not announce the subject of Dew >y’s Des Moines speech, the principal issues already were well outlined. Dewey approved in advance the f ITicial GOP reply President Truman’s Detroit Labor Day ad»:r« >s. delivered by Harold E. Stassen, so mer Governor of Minn< sota.' And he was expected to elaborate on i h of four principal issue? raised by Stassen then: The Taft-Hartley Label Act. high prices, Communism aind foreign policy.