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Evening star., 1940-09-08
BY OTIS SULLIVANT,
Special Correspondent Of The star,

OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. T.
Oklahoma Is In the Democratic COL
umn at the outset Of the general
election campaign, with the Repub-
hcans having q fighting chance If
the national trend in late October
is in favor of Wendell L. Willkie.
A record vote is expected, despite
the laxity of voters in overwhelm-
ingly Democratic counties in the
Southern part Of the State, along
Red River.
Four years ago 74s,740 Oklaho-
mans voted in the presidential race.
That vote was just 18, DOT below the
total vote cast on all questions and
races in the election.
President Roosevelt received q
majority of 255 ,947, better than 2 to
1, over Gov. ALI M. Landon of Kan
sas, the Republican nominee.
This year Democratic leaders con-
cede they cannot expect such a ma
jority. II the national election is
close observers expect the majority
to be pulled down to around 100, 900
and If late October should develop
q national trend to the Republican
ticket it is possible the Republicans
might have q chance to nose the
Democrats out.
Both Republicans and Democrats
have just opened State headquarters
and the campaign Is confined largely
to preliminary organization work.
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Oklahoma in Democratic List,
But With Majority Reduced
Republicans Given Fighting Chance
II National Trend Should Favor Them

The Republican "kickofi" will
come at Tulsa September Is, when
Mr.. Willkie speaks at the fair
grounds. The Oklahoma Republicans
and Willkie Democrats will make it
the big rally Of the campaign. Re-
publicans think much will depend
upon the meeting. II 1t is q success
it will give the party campaign i'm
petus.
There is more dissension among
Democrats in Oklahoma than there
has been since the bolting of Alfred
E. Smith In 1928, when the State
went Republican In a presidential
race for its second time.
A State Willkie Democratic organ
ization, headed by e. H. Moore,
Tulsa oil man and q delegate to
the Democratic national convention,
has been formed. The object is to
persuade Democrats to support Re-
publican presidential electors, but
remain faithful to the Democratic
State ticket.
Gov. Leon G. Phillips. anti-New
Deal Governor, is cool toward the
national ticket. He probably will not
bolt, but his administration will not
be actively fighting.
The State does not elect a Gov
ernor or United States Senator this
year. Only five State officials are
to be elected. The most interest Is
In the Congress and Legislative
races.
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Connecticut Democrats
Counting on Roosevelt
Special Dispatch to The Star.

HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. L.
Connecticut Democrats, having
nominated State ticket at an un-
usually early date. are making only
slight gestures toward campaign
ing as yet. They say for publica-
ton that they are waiting for the
Republicans to start their campaign.
but actually the Democrats are
counting on President Roosevelt, and
many of them consider the State
campaign of little importance. No
State trend has developed yet.
The Republicans, who will hold
their convention in New Haven Sep
tember II and 18 with Representa-
tive Halleck Of Indiana as keynoter,
are expected to renominate tncum-
bent State officers, headed by Gov.
Raymond E. Baldwin. Their carldi-
date for the Senate against Fran
els T. Maloney is still uncertain,
with neither of the two announced
candidates, Paul L. Cornell, former
New York advertising executive, and
Brig. Gen. John H. Parker appar-
emily having anything approaching
a majority of the delegates. A meet
ing of the Republican State Com
mittee has been called for Monday
to discuss the Senate situation.
The Democrats have named State
Public Works Commissioner Rob-
ert A. Hurley their gubernatorial
candidate, and placed Odell Shepard,
Trinity College Hartford English
professor, poet and Pulitzer Prize
winner, on their ticket for Lieu
tenant Governor. Prof. Shepard's
probable opponent is DR.. James l..
McConaughy, president of Wesleyan
University, the incumbent.
The Socialists, an autonomous
State group divorced from the ma
tional organization headed by Nor
man Thomas, will convene Septem-
ber IA and Is and nominate Mayor
Jasper McLevy of Bridgeport as
their gubernatorial candidate again.
He polled 10000 votes in 1898,
but the general impression Is his
total this year will be In the neigh
borhood Of $4,000.
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Illinois Republicans Leading Straw Ballots Stump Downsate
Alabama Fight
Is Wormest
| Since 1928
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

special Dispatch 70 Tne star.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. T.
AS the presidential campaign warns
up in Alabama, the resemblances
and contrasts with the Hoover
Smith campaign become more evi-
dent. Unquestionably the current
fight is the warmest in the State
since 1928.
Although there is little likelihood
Alabama will desert Its traditional
Democratic loyalty, a great deal Of
heat is developing. A Republican
campaign committee, headed by
Paul G. Parsons, Birmingham at
torney, Is more active than Repub-
lican committees usually are here.
Wendell L. Willkie has given q
tentative promise to make at least
one speech in the State before
election, an unusual Republican
action, since Alabama voters usually
nave to be content with pictures
Of the candidates.
The Republicans are getting some
support from disgruntled Democrats,
anti-third termers and anti-New
Dealers. So far, however, no out
standing Democratic leader has
switched over.
Not since 1923 has there been
any division among the Democrats
of the State. However, there are a
number of dissimilarities between
this and the 1928 campaign which
indicate that the State is less in
doubt than it was then, when the
Democrats saved the State by only
1912 votes.
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Mississippi Debates
Size Of WiIIkie Vote
speciai Dispatch to The star.

epeciA, Dispatch to The Star.
JACKSON. Miss, Sept. Mis-
stssippi's electoral votes are, of
course. In the Democratic column.
The question discussed on the
streets Is not whether Mississippi
will go Democratic or Republican,
but whether Wendell L. Willkie can
capture as many votes as Herbert
Hoover polled IL years ago. At that
time Mr.. Hoover. with Alfred e.
Smith as his opponent, received
only 81 per cent Of the votes cast.
The Republicans took from 2 to 4
per cent of the vote during the two
following elections.
OF the is daily newspapers in
the State, only two have expressed
preference for Mr.. Willkie in q re-
cent Editor q Publisher poll. The
combined circulation Of these two
papers is short of 10000 copies. One
Of these reported "qualified-may
change" Eight newspapers re-
ported favorable" to President
Roosevelt. One Is neutral. Five did
not express a preference. During
the two previous presidential elec-
tions the II papers reporting sup
ported President Roosevelt.
Although the Republican under
current is stronger than in the two
last presidential elections, the
Democratic State Executive Com
mittee has ruled that voters who
cast Republican ballots will be dis
qualified for Democratic primaries
for two years.
Senator Bilbo, renominated in the
recent primary by 27.00o votes over
former Gov. Hugh White, Is expect
ing no Republican opposition. There
Is some talk of a Republican ticket
for members Of the House, al Dem.
ocrats In oflice having been renomi-
mated tn the August primary.
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Stand Of Montana
Is Not Evident Yet
Special Dispatch to The Star.


HELENA, Mont. Sept. IA po-
litical trend in Montana today is
not evident, and is anybody's guess
This is partly because the campaign
cannot be said to have begun in
earnest.
Montana's primaries were held in
July. As usual, voters broke party
lines freely and the result bore not
at all on the presidential sentiment
From this ballot Senator Wheeler
emerged with a majority so decisive
the solid party vote for him in Mo-
vember seems assured. The Re-
publicans chose Attorney E. K.
Cheadle of Shelby as their sena-
torial nominee. He is a former State
chairman.
President Roosevelt swept the
State in 1896 as in 1882. Montana,
however, was considered normally
Republican In presidential elections
up to 1882. The Republicans enter
the present campaign more encour.
aged, they say, then in 10 years
Democratic comment considers
Montana safe for Roosevelt.
Mr.. Willkie is to visit the State
later this month. He will speak in
Butte the evening of September "a
under present plans. and State
wide Republican rally in his honor
is probable.
Montana industrial conditions are
only fair. although development OF
the manganese industry for defense
purposes is expected to help in the
1au. Conscription scarcely can be
said to be an election issue; polls
here and there among service clubs
nave shown an overwhelming ma
= Jority for selective service,
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Trend 10 Republicans
Is Seen in Delaware
pisnatch To The star.

special DISPATCH 10 lne Star.
WILMINGTON, Del, Sept. AL
though the State Republican and
Democratic Conventions are out of
the way the active campaign has
not opened here. Numerous confer
ences have been held in Delaware
resorts, but whatever plans were
made will not be launched for few
weeks.
Delaware is normally Republican
and preliminary surveys show the
trend to be toward Wendell L.
Willkie and a Republican Senator
and Representative.
The Republican party is fortunate
this year in not having any fac
tional disputes. Contests which
loomed early in the summer were
ironed out and at the convention a
complete ticket was nominated with
out a dissenting voice.
The Democratic party is not so
fortunate. A political feud of years
broke anew at the convention be-
tween forces opposed to the NOM
nation of James M. Tunnel, sr.,
for the Senate, headed by former
Representative William S. Allen,
and those supporting Mr. Tunnel.
The latter was nominated, but the
wounds have not healed. Whether
they will before election remains to
be seen. Democratic politicians say
the split will not affect the vote for
President.
Mr.. Tunnel was nominated to op-
pose Senator John G. Townsend,
tr. Senator Townsend and Repre-
sentative George S. Williams were
renominated by the Republicans.
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Nevada 6. @. P. Vote
Is Light in Primary
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RENO, New, Sept. THE only
Statewide contest in Nevada's pri-
mary election, that for the Repub-
hcan nomination for the Senate,
brought out light vote despite the
fact four men were in the race, and
considerable speculation was evoked
here whether 1t was a criterion Of
Republican expectations in Novem-
Der.
Samuel Platt, Reno attorney,
twice before nominated by the Re-
publicans, won the primary Tues
day and will oppose Senator Pitt
man, Democrat, the best vote-getter
In the State. Mr.. Platt led his near.
est opponent. Harry H. Atkinson, by
approximately 800 votes, with Clar-
ence r. Pugh third and Clyde D.
Souter fourth.
There were no primary contests
for the Representative nomination,
Representative Scrugham having no
opposition for the Democratic place.
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Missouri Republicans
Given Fighting Chance
On Machine Issue
Democratic Ticket
Also Is Heavy With
'Third-Term' Condidotss
BY JAMES F. KING.

Special Correspondent OF The Star.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Sept. T.
A political machine issue, plus an
overbalanced "third-term" Demo-
cratic State ticket, will give the
Republican party fighting chance
to carry Missouri in the fall,
although the State now is con-
sidered in the Roosevelt ranks.
Republican hopes are based on
the combination of machine and
"third-term Democratic candidates,
an offering of new faces" on their
own ticket and the pulling power
Of Wendell l.. Willkie. Recent polls
have shown much more sentiment
for the 1910 Republican nominee
than was evidenced for Gov. ALI
M. Landon of Kansas four years
ago.
The Democrats came out of the
primary with ranks torn by reform
dissent. The denomination of Sem
ator Truman and the selection Of
Lawrence Mcdaniel, st. Louis, as
the party candidate for Governor,
places machine-supported nominees
in the two top spots on the State
ticket. ....
Because Of the recent Federal
prosecutions Of graft In the Pender-
gast Kansas City machine these
nominations are expected to cost
the Democratic party many votes
in November. To this element is
added the fact that four nominees
for State ONCE on the Democratic
ticket are seeking third terms ut
the same time q strong anti-third
term fight is being made on the
President.
Giving the edge to the Democrats,
AAo"S'eAs 40 siCh ulOIlOpOly on dIl
State jobs and the elective posts
In the major cities of the State.
The G. o. P. has been without State
patronage for eight years and Its
vote-getting organization has Slip
ped.
In 1886 President Roosevelt car
ried Missouri by more than 400 900
votes, indicating a turnover of ap-
proximately zoe. 900 necessary to take
this State to the Willkie column in
November. The Democratic party
will lose about $4,000 to 10000 votes
in Jackson County, where the purge
of the registration lists cut that
number of Pendergast ghosts and
pads from the ballot rolls.
Active campaigning in Missouri
will get under way following State
party platform conventions Septem-
Der 10, when the political committees
also complete organization. Some of
the Republican candidates have
opened their individual campaigns.
but the formal party openings will
come later this month.
Evening star., 1940-09-08
COP. Prophets, Sure
OF Nebraska, Still Cast
Wary Eye al Norris
will Uncle George
Campaign VieorousIy?'
Is the Question in Omoho
BY ROBERT LASCH,


OMAHA, Nebr., Sept. What
Uncle George will do has become a
major question in the Nebraska
presidential campaign.
Most of the polls and prophets are
handing this State to Wendell l..
Willkie at the moment, but not even
the cheeriest apostle of a revived
Republican party can escape attacks
of midnight uneasiness over the way
Nebraska's venerable Senator George
w. Norris may affect the ultimate
result.
The Senator's long battle for pub
lie power. his angel watch over
T. v. A., his close association with
the first administration that ever
satisfied him-all make him q natu-
raj antagonist to Mr.. wiIlkie. He
has already, somewhat peremptorily,
sought to tar the Republican candi-
date with the insult brush, but as
yet he has given no indication how
vigorously he will campaign for the
New Deal in his home State.
Upon that Republican leaders are
ponderinG. Some of them rashly
proposed, shortly after Mr.. WILKES
nomination, that the Republican
nominee open his campaign in Nc.
Cook. the Senator's home town,
with a frontal attack upon the
Senator. public power and the New
Deal combined. Wiser heads
chiefly the heads Of State candi-
dates who are running on Mr.. Will
kie's ticket-prevailed. They thought
this too much like waving the ira
ditional red flag before a bull
Consequently. the Republicans are
waiting for Senator Norris to make
the first move, and privately hoping
he may be kept out of too active
participation In the campaign at
home.
Along with his major interest in
T. V. A., Senator Norris has done
much to sponsor a little T. v. A. In
Nebraska; the P. w. A. financing of
five public districts now engaged in
developing the States water re-
sources for irrigation and power.
With another drought curling the
grain in Central and Western Ne
braska, the demand for irrigation
steadily increases and support of
the little T. v. AS enterprise grows.
Will Senator Norris endeavor to-
turn that support, into the third
term camp?
Republican leaders don't know.
All they know-or think they know
is that they are riding q crest right
now and hope to stay that way.
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Strong New Deal
Trend in Utah
Is Surprise
Special Dispatch 10 The star.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. Z.
Abe Murdock. New Deal Repre-
sentative and staunch supporter Of
President Roosevelt, took the Demo-
cratic nomination from Utah's vet
eran Senator King by better than
q Stool plurality this week. 1t was
the first major primary election
held in this State and indicated, |,
among other things, that the Demo-
cratic party still is strongly In the
lead In Utah. The trend Is New
Deal even more than Democratic.
The combined vote for Democratic
United States senatorial candidates
was nearly twice the combined vote
Of the Republican parry. Opposed to
Mr.. Murdock In November will be
Philo T. Farnsworth, jr.
Mr.. Murdock was expected to lead
all opponents, but the extraordinary
plurality he took and held surprised
most of the prophets.
Evening star., 1940-09-08
New Hampshire Votes
In Primary Tuesday
Special Dispatch to The Star.

MANCHESTER, N. H., Sept. t.
New Hampshire voters go to the pri-
mary polls Tuesday. Two strong
candidates are seeking the Repub-
lican nomination for Governor, DR..
Robert o. Blood of Concord, presi-
dent Of the State Senate, and Execu-
tive Councillor James c. Farmer of
Keene and Newbury, perhaps one
Of the best-known granger officials
In the Nation.
On the Democratic side F. Clyde
Keefe Of Dover has no opposition
for the gubernatorial nomination
although there had been consider
able talk that the present Repub-
lican Governor, Francis P. Murphy
shoe manufacturer, would be a
write-in candidate on the Demo-
cratic slate.
Gov. Murphy, however, has asked
friends to drop the write-in cam
paign. declaring he is a Republican
and not q candidate. He is sup
ing lkr. Farmer.
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Independent Enthusiasm
Dies Out In South Carolina
,neei.I ni,p.tch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
COLUMBIA, 8. c., Sept. There
is no element of prophecy in the
statement that South Carolina will
go Overwhelmingly for the Demo-
cratic nominees for President and
Vice-President in the next general
election. She has done so for more
than SO years.
Immediately after the nomination
Of Wendell Willkie by the Repubh-
cans there was a slight furry of
enthusiasms IN one or two centers
In South Carolina, ,-and three or four
or five candidates for minor offices
withdrew from the Democratic
primaries when they realized that
they could not enter the primaries
without swearing to support all
Democratic nominees both State
and National. But the shouting.
feeble as 1t was, has ceased and
since the Democratic primaries of
10 days ago nothing is heard of
intended voters for the Republican
nominees by the independent JET
fersonian Democrats except in
Charleston where Mr.. Willkie is per-
sonally known as somewhat re-
gular visitor. -
Denunciatory resolutions adopted
by the Richland county Democratic
convention proposing to read the
Jeffersonian Democrats out of the
party and commending the Repubn-
can party Of South Carolina for
refusing to permit such Demo-
cratic deserters to enter its ranks"
indicate q rather widespread senti-
ment in the State.
In one other center in South
Carolina, besides Charleston, there
is vocal Willkie sentiment. That is
Greenville, the center of the cotton
milling industry, where the New
Deal labor laws and taxes are Bit
terly resented by fnill executives
and their allies.
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Popularity
In Georgia Start|es
Democratic Leaders
Revolt Seems of Some
Proportions, Although
Unlikely to Garry Stote
BY C. E. GREGORY,
Special CORRESPONDENT of The at,

Speciai correspondent OF The Star.
ATLANTA. Sept. 7.-Democratic
leaders in this always Democratic
State are showing concern at the
personal popularity of Wendell L.
Willkie, but they are confident he
will not break the solid South.
Startled by the number of former
Democrats who have come out pub
licly for the Republican presidential
nominee, State officials and Demo-
cratic party leaders have moved to
bar such declarants from the Demo-
cratic primary Wednesday. The re-
suit has been to slow down public
declarations for Mr.. Willkie, but
there will be an outburst of them
after the primary.
The Republicans do not offer a
State ticket, and therefore hold no
primary. There is a movement
among their leaders to indorse the
Democratic candidates in State
races, thus giving voters the oppor-
tunity to- vote Republican In the
national contest and at the same
time support the Democratic nomi-
nees for State offices.
G. o. p. Supporting Talmadge.
Former Gov. Eugene Talmadge,
the leading primary candidate for
Governor, has been a bitter critic of
President Roosevelt and most of the
New Deal program. His opponents
charge that he is really In sympathy
with Mr.. WILKES campaign, and
would aid it if nominated for Cover
REORGANIZATION being tantamount
to election. Gov. Talmadge has de-
MED these charges, but, neverthe-
less, practically every Republican in
Georgia is supporting him.
President Preston S Arkwright of
the Georgia Power Co. is former
Democratic leader actively interested
in the election of Mr. Willkie, and
the power company always has
welded a great influence in Georgia
politics. This company has many
thousands of employees in every sec
tion of the State and their activity
in State politics is traditional.
Bobby Jones, former emperor of
golf, who never scratched a Demo-
cratic ticket before, is an ardent and
active supporter of Mr.. Willkie and
has many followers in the world of
sport
Two Papers for Willkie.
The two largest newspapers in
South Georgia, the Savannah Morn
ing News and Savannah Evening
Press, are supporting Mr.. Willkie
editorially.
There may be some litigation be-
fore the general election to upset
the plan of Democratic party leaders
to have the Republican national
ticket printed on a separate ballot
so a voter cannot split his ballot.
Both the Democratic and Republican
State Executive Committees have
opened headquarters in Atlanta.
Evening star., 1940-09-08
WiIIkie Drive BEGUN
In Texas, Seemingly
Still in Solid South
Democratic Dissenters
Organize. but Regulars
See Large Majority
BY S. RAYMOND BROOKS.

Special Correspondent Of The star.
AUSTIN, Tex, Sept. Tin Texas,
which leans Democratic this year
and has abandoned its place in the
solid South Democratic list but once
in 81 years. an aggressive campaign
is being built up for Wendell l..
Willkie 1t is being made by dis
satisfied Democrats. rather than by
Republican party leaders.
The drive in support of Mr.. Will
kie has taken the form of mo
Third Term Democrats" State or
ganization, just formed at Dallas.
in rally attended. by an estimated
800 anti-Roosevelt Democrats. Mike
Hogg of Houston, Tex, oil magnate
and son of Gov. James Stephen
Hogg, was made permanent chair
man. w. c. Teagle, major oil COM
pany executive who issued the call
for the meeting, died just before
the rally was held.
Besides this organized group,
Texas has had two or three other
sym ptomatic manifestations. Ralph
Moore, master Of the Texas Grange,
representing one Statewide farmer
group, joined the No Third-Term
Democrats. J. E. Mcdonald, newly.
renominated Democratic State COM
missioner of agriculture, recently
visited Nominee Willkie to talk farm
plans and renew his virulent criti-
cism of Henry Wallace's cotton pro-
grams.
Myron G. Blalock, original Gar
ner-for-President Texas leader, was
named national committeeman for
the Roosevelt-Wallace campaign
and has opened State campaign Of
fices at Austin. He insists Texas
will return a large majority for the
ticket.
One matter causes some uncer-
tainty here. Vice President Garner,
on behalf Of whom there was .
strong home-State drive for the
presidential nomination, left the
Senate Immediately after the Chi
cago convention and returned TO
his ranch home at Uvalde. He is
still there. He has declined TO say
whether he will go back to Washing
ton for the rest Of the session, or
anything about support of the DEM
ocratic nominees. If he should take
. stand 1t would have effect on
numbers Of Texas voters.