Evening star., 1938-11-09
6. 0. P. Governors
Elected in Half
OF Nation S States
Make Big Gains After
Holding Only J Seats
Before Elections
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Republicans counted today on sew
eral newly elected Governors to pro-
vide candidates and patronage for
the 1910 presidential campaign.
The party went into the election
with only seven Governors and
came out with nearly two dozen
upsetting Democrats, Progressives
and Farmer -Laborites alike.
It turned out Pennsylvania's Tit
tie New Deal" and installed Judge
Arthur H. James in the Keystone
citadel. 1t swept all OF New Eng
land and made incursions in the
Middle West and Far West.
Racket busting Thomas A. Dewey
failed to defeat President Roosevelts
old friend, Gov Herbert H. Lehman,
in New York but he came SO close
that his friends renewed their boom
for him in the 1910 Republican pres
idential Derby.
Murphy Down to Defeat.
Another Roosevelt friend, how
ever, fell before the Republicans
when red headed Gov. Frank
Murphy-whom the President de-
Tended against Dies Un-Amerlcan
Committee witness charge OF radl-
calism-bowed to former Gov. Frank
D. Fitzgerald in Michigan.
Among the new Republican Cover
nors was socially prominent Leverett
Saltonstall of Massachusetts. The
e o1I LncnorIant Nf Nf
the Bay States Oldest families re-
buffed a comeback attempt OF for
mer Democratic Gov. James M.
Curley.
Rhode Island elected William H.
Vanderbilt of the famous railroad
family. and julius P. He'll, wealthy
manufacturer, gave the Wisconsin
La Follettes their first beating in
a half-century. He took the gov
ernorship from Philip La Toilette.
Another old political name trailed
in the dust of electoral defeat in
Nebraska. Charles w. Bryan, seek
ing a comeback as an independent,
ran a poor third behind Democratic
Incumbent R. L. Cochran and Re-
publican Charles Warner. Mr..
Cochran held a lead for third
term
Tall Culbert L. Olson, Democrat,
apparently won the California gov
ernorship. Maryland apparently con-
tributed another Democratic gain by
giving Attorney General Herbert R.
T. OConor long lead for the gov
ernorship over Gov. Harry w. Nice.
Landon Ally Elected.
Kansas elected Alf NJ Landon's
42-year- -old ally, Payne H. Rather,
to the governorShip and maintained
its tradition of never re-electing a
Democratic Governor.
Paralleling the fall of the neigh
boring La Toilette Progressive party,
the Farmer Labor party in Mime
sofa and its Governor, Elmer A.
Benson, fell before the campaign
of Republican Lawyer Harold E.
StasSen.
In Oregon, where Secretary Ickes
gave the New Deals blessing to
Henry L. Hess, the Republicans won
WlUll Il~y col ~Olo IO1GOl SIldi lCS n.
Sprague.
Seventeen Governors sought re-
election. Successful ones included
Democrats Carl E. Bailey of Arkan-
sas, E. D. Rivers of Georgia and
Mr.. Lehman, and Republicans
George D. Aiken of Vermont and
Francis P. Murphy of New Hamp-
shire.
Republicans also turned Ohio's
intra-Democratic quarrels to advan-
tage. After Charles Sawyer beat
out Gov. Martin Davey in the Demo-
cratic primary, Republican John w.
Bricker, 45-year-old eX-attorney
general, grabbed the prize
In Nebraska, with two-thirds of
the States vote counted Gov. R. L.
Cochran CDemocraU crept ahead to-
day in his bid for third straight
term. In 1875 of 2,033 precincts, he
led Charles J. Warner (Republican)
l43,799 to l22,837. Charles w. Bryan
independently was out of the run