The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-02
new YORK STATE
HOLDS SPOTLIGHT
Political Interest OF Week
Centers On Empire Party
Conventions


New York's party conventions,
significant for their possible bear
ing on the 1948 Presidential out
look, take top rank in this weeks
candidate picking for three sena-
total and three gubernato-ial seats.
Besides the Empire state, which
selects candidates for governor and
U. S. Senator in meetings starting
Tuesday, Neveda will hold pri-
maries the same day for Senator
and governor while South Carolina
names a governor in a Democratic
cun-off primary.
Virginia winds up the weeks
candidate naming with a Demo
cratic convention Thursday to
choose a nominee for the seat OF
the late Senator Carter Glass. The
field of half a dozen potential can
didates had not narrowed over the
weekend.
Dewey Sure Shot
The Republican state convention
In New York is apparently bent or
nominating Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
for a second term. It's choice for
U. S. Senator is clouded by reports
the Dewey forces are steering past
1t. Gen Hugh A. Drum, who is
said he is not a candidate, and are
looking around. Maj. Gen. William
j. wild Bib Donovan is an an
nounced candidate with strong
backing.
The New York Democrats are
lining up behind U. S. Sen. James
M. Mead foc governor and Herbert
H. Lehman, former governor, for
Senator.
lDeWey's denomination never has
been doubted. A victory by a good
margin in November, il the view
of party leaders, would make him a
serious contender for another Pres
idential nomination two years
hence. Dewey polled more than
%, 900, 900 votes to Franklin Roose-
velt's 5000, 900 in 1914, but lost
the presidency by an electoral
count of SO to 1872.
The Dewey high command pre-
viously had made Gen. Drum it's
No. l choice for the Senatorial spot
Last night it let it be known the
race was wide open but it was
understood to be opposed to Dono-
van, head of the office of strategic
services (OSS) during the war.
Donovan Active
Donovan, who plans to push his
campaign in the convention, has
been termed "~anti-labor'' by the
ALL state federation of labor. He
has called the charges false.
Most of the Democratic state or
~ganization is backing the Mead
Lehman combination, although
there has been some talk of the
Senate choice for former Mayor
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who sue
ceeded Lehman as director Of the
United Nations Relief and Rehabili-
tation administration. Lehman re-
signed a fourth term as governor
to take the UNRRA job.
In Nevada, Senator E. P. Car
vile and Rep. Berkeley L. Bunke.
are seeking the Democratic Sena-
torial nomination.
Carville is a 61-year-old former
governor, lawyer and rancher who
resigned the g~overnorship il July,
1914, and was appointed to the
Senate seat vacated by the death
of James G. Scrugham.
Bunker is a 40-year-old former
Las Vegas bishop and filling sta
ton operator. Carville appointed
him to the U. S. Senate il 1910
on the death of the veteran Key
Pittman. He won a House seat in
1914, after being defeated for the
Senate nomination two years
earlier.
Administration Man
Bunker has voted mostly for ad-
ministration measures while Car
vile has often opposed the Presi-
dents proposals.
The Virginia Senatorial nomina-
ton is still up in the air, with party
leaders trying to pick the strongest
candidate to team up with Senator
Harry F. Byrd, also up for -eelec-
ton in November.
The South Carolina gubernatorial
run-off primary will be between
J. Strom Thurmond, World War II
veteran, and James A. Mcleod,
president of the state health as
sociation. They We're top men ii
a field of Ii in the first primary