Evening star., 1940-04-08
Third Term and Dewey
To Get Tests in Illinois,
Nebraska Tomorrow
Vondenberg's Fate Also
Will Be Affected by
Voting in 2 Primaries
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The 1910 presidential tryouts fea-
ture Thomas E. Dewey tomorrow
In the double role of seeking a new
farm-belt victory over Senator VAN
denberg and measuring vote-getting
powers in the Midwest with Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
The New York prosecutor meets
Senator Vandenberg, whom he
trounced last week to win Wiscon-
sins "a delegates to the Republican
National Convention, in Nebraska S
presidential preference primary.
Convention delegates are not di-
rectly at stake, but another Dewey
triumph over the Michigan Senator
would threaten to make a stop
Dewey" contest the dominant factor
In the Republican race.
President Roosevelt is unopposed
on the Democratic preferential bal
lot in Nebraska, but his vote tally in
relation to the Republican turnout
will be watched for hints of political
trends.
A more direct test of Roosevelt
Dewey popularity occurs in Illinois,
where the President is opposed by
Vice President Garner in the pref
erential primary. Dewey supporters,
lacking an opponent, are endeavor-
ing to pile up vote adequate to
support claims of a Republican
trend in this key State.
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The Illinois Democratic machines
of Gov. Henry Horner and Mayor
Edward j. Kelly of Chicago are just
as determined to roll up a top-heavy
showing for the President. Their
avowed purpose is to translate ef-
forts for his denomination into a
powerful draft movement. A record
vote of more than 100000 has been
forecast.
Against this possibility of third
term band wagon, Garnerites are
battling for sufficient Illinois votes
to demonstrate sizable popular op-
position to third term.
Reports to Capital politicians in
dicated, however, that the Garner
vote would fall considerably below
the Wisconsin percentage, where the
Vice President received one for every
three Roosevelt ballots.
Illinois sends So delegates to each
Of the national conventions. Fifty
will be chosen tomorrow. and the
remainder will be selected in State
conventions. Nebraskans elec. full
delegation of IA to each convention.
In neither State, however. are the
results of presidential preference
voting binding on the delegates.
Colleagues Back Vandenberg.
The quickened efforts Of Senator
Vandenberg's managers to win
Nebraska's farmers and thereby
stage a comeback from the Wiscon-
sin defeat lent special importance
to the outcome tomorrow.
Senator Nye of North Dakota took
the stump in Senator Vandenberg' S
behalf, while Senators McNary of
Oregon and Capper of Kansas, all
Republican veterans of many bat
tie over farm legislation, Endorsed
the Michigan Senator as a friend of
agriculture.
Senator McNary later replied to a
telegram from Dewey headquarters
that he was pleased" with the New
Workers. "sympathy with the farm
er." These exchanges served to
emphasize national interest in Mr..
Dewey's Nebraska showing, and
raised for some Republican politi-
clans here the intriguing question:
Would a Dewey victory in Ne
braska, coming on top of his Wis
consin success, put Senator Vanden-
berg out of the running and narrow
the field of leaders for Republican
honors to Dewey and Senator Taft
OF Ohio?
Democratic voting in Illinois will
offer new light on the question of
just how tightly the public is
welded to the two-term presidential
tradition. The figures will be
especially significant if Mayor Kelly
is correct in his contention that if
the President gets a big vote in
Illinois, he will be nominated"
Also on tap in Nebraska are a
neck-and-neck stretch race between
Senator Burke and Gov. R. L. Coch-
ran for the Democratic Senatorial
nomination and selection of first
district Representative for short
term to succeed the late George
Heinke, Republican.