The battle for New York's 47 electoral votes in 1944 began last week. The state's highest court ordered that an election be held in November to pick a successor to Lieut. Governor Thomas W. Wallace, a Republican, who died last July.
In almost any other state such a by-election for a relatively unimportant position would have little national meaning. But in New York, home state of Franklin Roosevelt and Thomas E. Dewey, it is full of significance.
Much more than the lieutenant-governorship is at stake. Closely tied up with the election are: 1) the prestige of Franklin Roosevelt and the Fourth...