Evening star., 1940-03-29

forces against the New Yorker. The
Ohio Senator has many friends
among the old line Republicans,
who do not care either for Senator
Vandenberg or Mr.. Dewey, but who
are willing to give Senator Taft a
lift by helping to ditch Mr.. Dewey.
While denying any actual alliance,
Vandenberg managers speak conf
IDENTIFY Of receiving the support of
Senator Taft's friends.
Vandenberg Slate Held Stronger.
The Vandenberg slate of delegates
is rated personally stronger with the
voters than the slate of delegates
pledged to Mr.. Dewey. 1t. Gov.
Walter S. Goodland heads the list
of delegate at large candidates-four
in number-on the Vandenberg
slate. MIR. Dewey has Fred r. Zim-
norman, former Governor, as one
Of his at large delegate candidates.
Unless there is great swing in
the final days of the campaign, the
delegation will be split between Sem
ator Vandenberg and Mr.. Dewey.
Dewey stock has been going up all
the week, as reports come in from
various parts of the State, and his
trip today and tomorrow may have
an important effect.
The Vandenberg supporters have
hoped to place Mr.. Dewey in an
embarrassing position by asking him
how he stood, first on the reciprocal
trade agreement law and, second, on
the st. Lawrence River seaway,
Wisconsin voters are supposed to be
strongly opposed to the trade agree
ments and for the seaway.
Favorable to Seaway.
Mr.. Dewey has replied to a ques-
tionnaire put to him by five Wis
consin members Of the House, de-
claring he has always been favorable
to the seaway and against trade
agreements made by one man Tin
other words, he feels such agree
ments must have congressional rati-
flcation. Senator Vandenberg at
present is fighting the bill to extend
the Trade Agreements Act in the
Senate and is also strongly for the
seaWay. Senator Taft to whom the
questlonnalre also was sent, did not
reply. He, however, is not entered
IN the Wisconsin primary.
The Dewey campaign has been
more actively waged in the State
than Senator Vandenberg's, with
Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick
Slmms, one of Mr.. Dewey's national
managers, coming here for the final
week OF the campaign and speaking
constantly.
Gov. He'll is taking no open part
IN the primary fight between Mr..
Dewey and Senator Vandenberp
He is running again fo1 the Re
publican gubernatorial nomination
next September and ne does not
propose to take sides, he saws, in
this fight. He wants to be able to
support Fundamentally the Re-
publican presidential nominee-and
1t might be either Senator Van.
denburg or Mr.. Dewey. Privately,
however, it is believed the Gov
ernor would prefer to support SEN
ator Vandenberg - and Senator
Taft even more than the Michigan
candidate.
If many of the Progressives 70
into the primary and vote for Re-
publican delegate States it is ex-
pected Mr.. Dewey will get as good
a break as Senator Vandenberg or
even better. Reports from the
northern part of the State indicate
the Dewey sentiment among the
Progressives is quite strong.
While both Mr.. Dewey and Sem
ator Vandenberg have complete del
egate states entered in the pri-
mary neither of them entered the
presidential preference vote. They
feared many voters might merely
register their choice 1or President
and forget all about voting for the
delegates, The preference vote is
not binding
President Roosevelt, who is en-
tered in the preference vote against
Vice President Garner, will snow
Mr.. Garner under. If the Vice
President WINS any of the dele.
gates-slipping in between the two
Roosevelt states which are running
he will be lucky. The Garner
managers, however. confidently pre-
dict the Vice President will have
from four to eight delegates when
the voting is over. Mr.. Garner's
only issue is the third term.