Evening star., 1944-05-22
Six States 10 Name
Delegates This Week.;
Texas Fireworks Due
BY the Associated Press

| By the Associated Press.
Selection of convention delegates
starts rolling down the home stretch
this week, with Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York setting fast
pace for the Republican presidential
field and President Roosevelt coast
ing along with the Democratic NOM
ination assured him if he wants it.
Six States will select delegates, be-
ginning with Texas Democratic and
Republican conventions tomorrow.
Florida will settle its governorship
contest with runoff Democratic
primary and North Carolina will
pick a democratic senatorial NOM
inee to succeed Senator Reynolds,
who decided not to run.
The Texas Democratic meeting,
bringing groups favoring and oppos-
ing a fourth term into a collision
over the States 48 convention votes,
promises fireworks. The Republi-
licans will pick SO delegates, with
Gov. Dewey and Gov. John w.
Bricker of Ohio showing strength.
Maryland and Georgia Republicans
also will select 16 delegates tomor-
row. The odds were that most, if not
all, the Is Maryland delegates will
be for Gov Dewey Georgia will pick
a slate of IA, with one district rep
resentative already sewed up for
Gov. Dewey.
Caldwell Opposes Green.
lo1a
began were 357 pledged and claimed,
with Gov. Brickers 62 putting him
in second place.
In the Florida primary tomor-
row Millard Caldwell, former Rep
resentative, will battle it out with
Representative Green for the Demo-
cratic nomination, which usually
can be turned in automatically in
November for an election certificate.
Wednesday will find North Dakota
Depublicans picking II delegates,
who may be uninstructed. Support
ers of 1t. Comdr. Harold E. Stassen
have some hope of wedging in a
delegate or two among the majority
expected to support Gov. Dewey.
Connecticut Democrats will start
a two-day meeting the same day.
picking a delegation that will cast
18 votes.
Utah Democrats to Name 10.
Utah Democrats will name 10 Sat-
urday. The same day North Caro-
lima members of the party nominate
successor for Senator Reynolds,
pick their candidate for Governor
and name choices for IL seats in the
House of Representatives in a pri-
mary that will leave the November
election only a formality unless it
is preceded by a political earth
quake.
Senator Holman, Republican. of
oregon defeated for the Oregon Re-
publican senatorial nomination. re-
fused to say last night whether he
would support the successful candi-
date, Wayne l.. Morse, former men,
Der OF the War Labor Board, in the
November election.
Senator Holman said the money
spent by my opponents" was chiefly
responsible for his defeat.
i guess you could say that I am
through with politics." the Senator
added.
Senator Holman is returning to
Washington to carry on like a good
soldier" in completing this term, his
first.
Effort to Split Party Charged.
In his first postprimary state
ment Senator Holman declared:
They wanted to split the Repub-
lican party. They started the smear
campaign against me the very first
day.
Many factors played part in the
result. The main one was the money
spent by my opponents. They called
me an isolationist, but they never
defined the word"
Senator Holman said that when
his term is up January he intends
to return to Oregon and develop his
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