The Summing Up

In the manner of a man dispensing revealed truth, Publisher Robert R. McCormick rose last week at the Chicago Tribune's annual advertising convention to assay the meaning of the recent Republican victory.

"For the Tribune" said Colonel McCormick, "we have only modest claims to make." In Cook County's frantic sheriff race said Bertie, "we made the fight that beat 'Tubbo' [Police Capt. Daniel A. Gilbert] and elected [John E.] Babb. Also, we carried Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, California, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Not bad. We carried Michigan for all of the ticket but [Harry F.] Kelly [the G.O.P. candidate in the still-disputed governor's race], and carried all of the state for him except C.I.O. Detroit and the upper peninsula, which, without railroad mail service from Chicago, is lacking in education. Next time, we will have to go down and educate Missouri and Kentucky."

The colonel was willing to share some of the credit for putting in the winners. He dealt out a bit of it to the Trib's kissing-cousins, the New York Daily News and Washington Times-Herald. "When we purchased the Times-Herald," said McCormick, "it was not for political reasons, but it gave us an opportunity to take Americanism into the national capital." Niece Bazy Miller, the Times-Herald's editor, was making the most of her opportunity. Said Uncle Bertie: "The Shenandoah Valley, from which her great-grandfather came, is filling up with Republicans . . ."

As for Manhattan's Daily News, it was, said the colonel, "outstanding as the only supporter in the mayoral race of Vincent R. Impellitteri. Added Bertie': "They call him 'Impy.' I suggest he spell it: 'Im Pelley Terry,' so the Italians can take him for a 'Wop,' the English, so numerous in New York, for a Sassenach, and the Irish for a 'Turk.'" The colonel refused to be ruffled by the victory of international-minded Tom Dewey. It "is not a matter of remorse," said Bertie "because [Democrat Walter A.] Lynch was just as bad, and, outside of New York, Dewey is dead politically anyhow."

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