Some 16,000 blue Boston noses tilted up at G. O. P. Prospect Thomas E.Dewey one night last week. Their owners had braved bitter cold to hearhis fourth major campaign speech. His text: New Deal spending; hispoint: Balance the Budget. His single specific: reduce the number ofFederal employes. His theme: “Do our 130,000,000 people run theirgovernment, or does $9,000,000,000 [the U. S. budget total] a year runour people? . . . That is the challenge posed to America by the NewDeal. . . . The national administration which will succeed thisadministration next January . . . must again release the energy ofprivate enterprise to transform unemployment into employment, reliefinto jobs. . . . That is the step no New Deal administration can evertake, because it would be turning its back on all the theories of theseseven lean years.”
“Only a new broom,” said he, “can sweep clean the budgetary litter ofthe New Deal.”