Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 49, DeMotte, Jasper County, 5 November 1948 — Truman's Fight Pays Off With Vote Harvest [ARTICLE]

Truman's Fight Pays Off With Vote Harvest

Confidence In Self Gave Him Victory; All iance With Western Europe First Problen Scrappy, underrated Harry Truman captured the presidential election yesterday in one of the biggest upsets in America’s political history. And in the hour of his biggest triumph the Democratic Party gave him a solid, comfortable majority in both Senate and House. It was a triumph which the little man from Missouri, standing almost alone against the flood-tide of pre-election forecasts, had predicted with unswerving confidence. Down to defeat went Thomas

E. Dewey, trying for a comeback along / the road to the White House whic invincible Franklin D. Roosevelt blocked four years ago. Down with him went Republican candidates in key congressional races and guberatorial contests. They went down fighting,' in the toughest presidential battle since Woodrow Wilson squeezed out Charles Evans Hughes in 1916. Dewey conceded defeat at 10:15 a.m. (CST) yesterday. And at the moment of decision by tens of millions of American voters, victor and vanquished alike cried out their hopes for peace in a troubled world. For himself, Mr. Truman pledged anew that he would give all his efforts “to the cause of peace in the world and the prosperity and happiness of our people.” As Dewey lost, he called out to all Americans to “unite” behind the man who beat him and behind “every effort to keep our nation strong and free and establish peace in the world.” In those words of the President and the man who wanted to be President there was new notice that America’s foreign policy will remain bipartisan, that it will remain one of unwavering firmness toward Russia. n

In fact, there were suggestions that the first big diplomatic move by a chief executive bolstered by a resounding vote of confidence in his program will be in the direction of a military alliance with western Europe. And at home, Mr. Truman had an evident indorsement of his intention to carry forward and expand a new deal which he has embraced in its entirety. All though his campaign,; as he trudged up and down and across the country, the President promised that a Democratic-Con-gress and a Democratic President would give the people: Price controls, housing, more ; social security, a higher minimum wage, repeal of the Taft-Hartley labor law, benefits for farmers, ’ development of the West medical ! insurance, strengthened civil rights. L New faces are almost certain ! to. appear in the Truman admin- | istration. I M iss Mary Jane White visited Mr. and Mrs. Robert Van Veld in Lafayette Saturday and Sunday.