Evening star., 1940-03-13
Third-TermAdv
WininNew Hampshire
Democratic Primary
Republican Delegates
'Uninstructed, as
Bridges Requested
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

brlo9eS Requested
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
New Hampshire Democrats, in
the first presidential preferential
primary of the year, yesterday gave
President Roosevelt complete slate
of delegates to the Democratic Ma
tional Convention and another
shove ahead to the third term draft
movement.
In the Republican primary, a
slate of "uninstructed" delegates to
the G.. o. P. National Convention
was elected, in line with the recon-
mendation of Senator H. Styles
Bridges, favorite son candidate for
the presidential nomination.
Senator Bridges vote, the heaviest
cast for any of the Republican dele
gates at large, was interpreted by
former Senator George Moses as a
definite indication that styles
Bridges is the States favorite son."
and, he added, the delegation from
New Hampshire now has an oppor-
tunity after more than half CEN
tury to make a bold bid for the
presidency"
From Senator Bridges, himself,
came the simple statement, Il feel
I have reason to express by graft
tude to the people of New Hamp-
shire for the confidence they have
shown in me-
The size of the vote cast in the
Republican primary was about dou-
BILE that cast in the Democratic. For
example, the vote cast for former
Gov. Huntley Spaulding, who ran
fourth in the Republican contest for
four delegates at large, was 24,238 in
280 out of 294 precincts, while the
vote cast for Mayor Damase Caron
of Manchester, who led the Demo-
cratic slate of delegates at large,
was only 10,281.
Burke Polls 4,335.
The Roosevelt slate was, with few
exceptions, not contested. However,
Charles A. Burke, pledged to Post
master General James A. Farley, had
a total of 4,335. This was the larg-
est vote cast for any of the few nom
Roosevelt delegates candidates.
The Democrats elected eight dele
gates at large, each to have half a
vote in the convention. The eighth
man on the list of delegates at
large was Raymond H. Stevens,
chairman of the United States Tariff
Commission, with 1870 votes.
Two delegate candidates in the
Democratic primary, pledged to Vice
President Garner, had 1879 votes
each, and two unpledged candidates
had 2,697 and 2,058, respectively.
While the Roosevelt delegate slate
swept the primary, there was an ap-
preciable number of non-Roosevelt
votes, some of which must be con-
sidered anti-third term votes. Ger
tainly those voters who turned in
their ballots for Garner delegates
may be considered unfavorable to
the denomination of the President.
Bridges, Tobey Elected.
The two Republican Senators
from New Hampshire, Bridges and
Tobey, were both elected delegates
at large to the G. O. P. National
Convention. Next to them ran Mr..
Moses, and former Gov. Spaulding
was fourth.
Gov. Francis P. Murphy, Repub-
lican, lost in his race for delegate
at large. The defeat of sitting
Governor for election as delegate
at large to a national political con-
vention is regarded as a strange
phenomenon in New Hampshire.
Gov. Murphy not long ago was ex-
tremely critical of the national Re-
publican organization.
The candidacy of Thomas E.
Dewey, New York district attorney,
for the Republican presidential
nomination received no boost from
the New Hampshire primary. Mr..
Dewey refrained from going into
the state in search of delegates-as
did other leading contenders for the
nomination-on the ground that
New Hampshire had favorite son
candidate in Senator Bridges and
the way should be left open to him.
One Dewey pledged delegate can
didate, J. Howard Gile of Nashua,
insisted on running, despite re-
quest from Mr. Dewey himself that
he withdraw. Mr.. Gile was far out
of the running, when the votes were
tabulated And another Dewey sup
porter, Prof. James P. Richardson
of Hanover, although he ran up
pledged, was defeated by a sub
stantial margin.
No Surprises in Primary.
There were no surprises except
the defeat of Gov. Murphy. 1t had
been generally predicted that the
Roosevelt slate of delegates would
easily win, and it did. On the Re
publican side there had been no
doubt whatever that the unpledged
slate, supported by Senator Bridges
and the Republican organization,
would be victorious.
The New Hampshire delegation in
both the Republican and the Dem
ocratic National Conventions will
have eight votes. The Democrats.
however, will send to the conven-
ton delegates at large with half a
vote each, which is contrary to the
practice of the Republicans, who
elect only four delegates at large.
Under the New Hampshire pri-
mary law the delegates pledged to
President Roosevelt, as they now
are, will stick by the President until
they are released by him. They are
not compelled, however, to vote for
any other candidate the President
NAV favor, but are free to use their