Evening star., 1944-10-23
Lincoln
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Mayor Stewart and Senator Taft
who is seeking reelection, hailing
from Cincinnati, the sectional divi-
sion has been intensified.
Mayor Lausche is a native OF
Cleveland. the son of immigrant
parents who came to this country
from Yugoslavia. He was a minor
league professional baseball player
before the World War. He enlisted
and came out of that war a second
lieutenant. Instead of going back
to professional ball playing, he
studied law He was a municipal
judge in 1882 and in 1886 was ele-
waited to the Common Pleas Bench
Five years later he was elected
Mayor of Cleveland with a Majority
OF $4,000 votes. the largest ever given
a candidate for that Office. A typ
ical American success story.
Plea for Straight Ticket.
The Democrats are pleading with
the people to vote a straight Demo-
cratic ticket. The people of Ohio,
however, are used to voting split
tickets-as for example when they
elected Gov. Bricker and still gave
their electoral votes to Mr.. Roose-
welt. Furthermore. each voter is
handed two ballots in this State.
one for the national ticket and the
other for the State ticket. which
makes it all the easier to split the
ticket. So whatever happens in
the gubernatorial race, the Repub-
licans are confident of carrying the
State for Gov. Dewey and Mr.
Bricker.
Ohio has a strong Republican
background. The COP in 1912 car
ried the State in a big way, and in
such by-elections as have been held
in the interim, their candidates
have run strongly. In the present
Congress, for example, both Ohio
Senators are Republicans and 20
out Of % members of the House
belong to the same political faith.
The three Democrats in the House
are all from Cleveland.
At the same time, Ohio is a great
industrial State, with many large
cities, as well as a great agri-
cultural State. The Democrats are
counting on the industrial workers
and they will get large share of
their votes. They are also count
ing on a big percentage of the Negro
vote which is numerous-although
this may be cut to so per cent.
Certainly the Republicans are work.
ing hard on this block of votes.
Look to Rural District.
In the rural districts and small
towns, however, Republicans are in
great numbers, and it is on their
votes that the COP relies to turn
the State to Mr.. Dewey.
AS in other industrial States, the
CIO and its Political Action Com
mittee have put on a vigorous cam
paign to get the workers to register
and to the polls. There has been
a surprisingly large registration, but
the Republicans are responsible for
a good part of it. Nor is all the
labor vote going one way in Ohio
John Owens, president of District 6,
United Mine Workers of America,
of the CIO in Ohio and
for five years its president, is now
out for the election of Dewey and
Bricker.
Discussing the Grained solid sup
port Of the Ohio CIO for the re-elec-
ton of President Roosevelt, Mr.
Owens said: Il know the CIO men,
intimating that thousands
of these workers will not be "deliv-
cred" on election day.
Many UNIV Voters.
The United Mine Workers are a
sizeable block of voters in Ohio.
I'VE are afraid" said Mr.. Owens,
that under the policy of this ad-
they are setting up the
to take away from the
individual worker the right to deter