Evening star., 1932-05-22
ROOSEVELT NEARS
MAJORITY SUPPORT
Gains Oregon and Nevada
Delegations for Presiden-
tiaI Nomination.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Oregon and Nevada delegations got
behind the Roosevelt bandwagon yes
terday and rolled it 16 votes nearer
the Democratic presidential nomination.
As forecast by State party leaders,
Roosevelt won the oregon primary
easily and added 10 votes to his column.
Nevada gave him six more by con-
vention action and boosted his weeks
delegate winnings to LOG and his total
pledged and claimed strength to 460,
exclusive of los his managers say he
will get from New York and Pennsyl-
vania.
Nearing Majority.
If the los are included, the New
Yorker tonight would have only five
less than a majority-578-and he is
conceded a good chance to increase
this out of the 1874 delegates yet to be
selected, including 72 next week.
But with 770, or two-thirds, needed
to nominate in the Democratic Con-
vention next month, the anti-Roosevelt
forces claim they will have enough
votes to throw the nomination to some
one else. This may turn out to be
the case, but counter claim Is that
favorite son State votes, once the trend
Is noted on the first ballot, will swing
to Roosevelt in sufficient numbers to
put him over.
Missouri, Illinois and some other
States might be involved in these cal
culations. Any hope that Oklahoma
might go over to the New Workers. can
didacy as result of Gov. Murray's
fourth primary defeat in Oregon, will
not be encouraged by Alfalfa Bill"
While he has practically given up hope
for the nomination himself. he told
newspaper men at Hudson, N. Y, Fri
day he would never" support Roose-
welt.
Backers of Roosevelt point to the
wide distribution of his delegate sup
port as evidence that he is the popu-
lar choice of the party. A recapitula-
ton shows his delegates spread over %
of the SO State delegations so far named,
including seven each in the South and
Midwest, 8 in the Far West and five in
the East.
Despite this apparently impressive
showing. Roosevelt's opponents argue he
will not have one of the really big dele
cations voting for him as unit and
it is groups like those from New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois that
will hold the balance of power in the
convention.
Whatever the outcome of the Demo-
Cratic COllIlOfCloy, bAiC 4AAob
convention will be the Republican. On
Tuesday it will be just three weeks off.
Leaders predict 1t will last only three
days, although prohibition argument
might prolong 1t.
President Hoover who ran his pledged
and claimed delegate total to 995 during
the week, with only 578 needed for re-
nomination, failed to win Oregon's 13
votes to clinch the nomination in
pledged delegates alone.
Name Not on Ballot.
His name was not on the ballot there
and the voters either had to write 1t on
or vote for Joseph I. France of Mary
land, the sole entrant for the Republi-
can preference. As Oregon's preference
binds the delegation, France thus has
Is pledged votes in the national conven-
tion. He also disputes 207 delegates
claimed for Hoover in States where he
had no opposition for preference honors.
Next week, however, Frances own
State of Maryland is slated to put the
Presidents pledged total over the ma
jority mark with 10 delegates. Mr..
Hoover won these from the former Sem
ator In the May primary, In which
both were formally entered on the
ballot
Republicans have only 1913 delegates
TO name to complete their convention
total of lisa. Besides Maryland's 10,
Texas will select 40 next week and nh-
nois will name IL at large to complete
the States delegation of 81.
The 72 to be chosen by Democrats
next week include Delaware, s; Texas,
<6; Colorado, IL, and Utah,.8
Speaker Garner, now running fifth
In the Democratic delegate race with
"a from California, is promised Texas
IS. Roosevelt workers see little oppo-
sition for their candidate in Delaware,
Colorado and Utah.
Democratic Delegates Selected.
The $50 Democratic delegates Sc
lected to date are now allocated as
follows:
Roosevelt, instructed, pledged and
claimed, 468.
Smith, instructed, pledged and
claimed, "a.
Lewis, pledged, So.
White, pledged, 81.
Garner, pledged, A
Reed, instructed, 36.
Murray, instructed and pledged, %.
Ritchie, 16.
Preference in doubt, 169; including
rs from Pennsylvania, 80 from New
York and / from Alaska.
HAWLEY HOLDS LEAD.