Evening star., 1940-05-16
Third-Term backers
Count 447 Delegates;
South Carolina Joins
Rush Holt Is Beaten;
lehmun Mentioned as
Democrats Keynoter

The third-term bandwagon still
rolls in high gear.
Roosevelt supporters today counted
AT delegates pledged or semi
pledged to the Presidents candidacy,
bringing him within hailing distance
Of a majority OF the 1,094 votes to
be cast in the Chicago convention.
There still are nearly 500 delegates
to be chosen, and the third-term
advocates were confident that from
these easily would come the strength
required for a majority.
The latest addition to the Roose-
velt ranks came yesterday from
South Carolina where the State
convention voted 2381s to 1861 for
a resolution instructing its 16 dele
gates for Mr.. Roosevelt. The action
was taken over the vigorous protest
Of Senator Cotton Ed" Smith, New
Deal critic and survivor of the presi-
dental purge Of 1898, but was sup
ported by Senator Byrnes, his COL
league. Senator Smith described the
instructions as turning on a green
light for the totaitarianism OF a
dictator"
Holt is Beaten.
However, another senatorial voice
critical of the New Deal has been
silenced. The returns in West Vir-
ginia eliminated Rush Holt, the
baby" of the Senate, who had to
wait six month in 1885 before he
was old enough to take his seat.
Judge Harley M. Kilgore apparently
Is the Democratic senatorial candi-
date. Prospects are for two new
Senators from West Virginia, as
Senator Nicely entered the guber-
material race, and will be the Demo-
cratic standard bearer in November.
Both he and Judge Kilgore are
backed by the United Mine Workers
with its 100000 members in West
Virginia.
West Virginia Republicans will
send an uninstructed delegation to
the Republican National Convention,
on the basis of returns from one
half the State, with the exception
OF one delegate at large instructed
for Thomas E. Dewey of New York.
Dewey supporters put forward two
candidates for delegates at large.
although Mr.. Dewey did not enter
the presidential preferential pri-
mary.
Walter S. Hallanan, Republican
national committeeman, heads the
list of uninstructed delegates with
56,779 votes. A. A. Lilly, second on
the uninstructed list, had 55,9 $50, and
Tom Flynn, $1,000. The Dewey dele
gate candidate, Richard Bias, had
42, ,435 votes. He was running ahead
of the fourth delegate at large cam
didate on the uninstructed list, Mrs.
Northcott.
The IL district delegates will be
uninstructed. The Deweyites made
q fight for only two delegates at
large.
The results increased the belief of
supporters Of Senator Taft Of Ohio
that their candidate would have the
great bulk of the West Virginia
delegates.
Idaho today selects eight Demo-
cratic delegates, with a contest on
between a group favoring q pledged
Roosevelt slate and another wanting
an uninstructed one. Tomorrow,
President Roosevelt and Vice Presi-
dent Garner will hook up again, this
time in the Oregon primary. In that
State the President was entered in
the primary by the Oregon Com
monwealth Federation, a left-wins
Democratic organization.
Lehman as Keynoter.
Democratic politicians here have
begun to talk of making Gov. Leh.
man of New York their convention
keynote speaker. Gov. Lehman was
here yesterday and conferred with
numerous officials, including the
President, but would have nothing
to say.
Because of the split in the party,
the selection of a keynoter had been
expected to involve q dispute of
some proportions. Gov. Lehman,
however, although follower of the
New Deal in most respects, was said
to find some approval among the
anti-New Deal Democrats because
OF his opposition to the Supreme
Court reorganization bill of 1897.
Meanwhile, there was q stir on
the Republican front today as Michi-
gan members of the party met in
State convention at Grand Rapids
to choose 80 delegates who are to be
instructed for Senator 'Vandenberg,