Evening star., 1947-07-15
Dewey First Choice
In '48 Preference Poll
OF 6. 0. P. Governors
By the Assoeiotsd Press

By the Assoeiotsd Press
SALT LAKE CITY, July Is
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York won first place by a wide
margin today in a secret-ballot
poll of Republican Governors
expressing their preference for
the 1948 COP presidential
nominee.
Democratic Governors showed such
wide variance Of opinion in the
same, poll that only one potential
candidate got as many as two first
place votes for the vice presidential
nomination. He was former Secre-
tary of State James F. Byrnes.
In a poll conducted by the Asso-
ciated Press in cooperation with the
Deseret News and the Salt Lake Tel
egram, Gov. Dewey received 10 first
place votes and his nearest con-
tender, Gov. Earl Warren Of Cali
fornia, 2.
Democrats Undecided.
The remainder of the total Of II
first place votes cast by the Repub-
lican Governors were distributed one
each to Senator Taft of Ohio, former
Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota,
Gov. Dwight Green of Illinois, Sem
ator Saltonstall of Massachusetts,
and Senator Martin of Pennsylvania.
The indecision of Democrats
about a vice presidential runner
with President Truman was demon
strated by single tirst-place votes
for nine possible candidates, follow
ing the two for Mr. Byrnes.
This field included Secretary of
State Marshall, who addressed the
annual Governors Conference here
last night.
Others are Navy Secretary For
restal, Commerce Secretary Harri-
man, Gov. Mon Wangren of Wash
ington, Senator Lucas of Illinois,
Senator Byrd of Virginia, former
Gov. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma,
former Gov. Ellis Arnau of Georgia
and Senator O'Mahoney of Wyo-
ming.
II Republicans Vote.
To insure freedom of expression,
reporters for the. Associated Press,
the News and the Telegram asked
Governors to write their preferences
on unmarked slips of paper which
could not be identified when the
boxes were opened.
Seventeen Republican Governors
and II Democrats participated in the
poll out of the 43 State executives
now present at the conference
Others either did not participate or
said they had not made up their
minds.
Mr.. Stassen, the only publicly
announced candidate for the COP
presidential nomination, topped the
list of second choices with 6 of
the Is Republican votes in that
bracket. Senator Vandenberg of
Michigan and Senator Bricker of
Ohio made their first appearance
in the poll with two second choice
votes each. Senator Taft also got
the same number.
One second choice vote each was
cast for Gen. Macarthur, House
Speaker Martin of Massachusetts,,
Gov. Dewey and Gov. Warren.
Strangely enough, Gov. Warren
was top man in the third choice
bracket with nine votes. Speaker
Martin got two and Dewey, Stassen,
Vandenberg and Green one each.
Eisenhower Gets Ballot.
Gen. Eisenhower's name appeared
in the poll for the first time with
one third choice vote.
Counting all Of the first, second
and third place votes. Dewey and
Warren topped the list with IL
each. Stassen got eight, Taft, Van
denberg and Speaker Martin, three
each, and Bricker and Green, two
each.
On the Democratic side. Byrnes,
Hartman, Lucas and Byrd were
the only ones who accumulated
two votes each in the three classi-
fications.
Interior Secretary Krug, Justice
William o. Douglas. Minority Lead
er Barley of Kentucky, Senator
Tydings of Maryland, former Gov.
Colgate Darden of Virginia and
Gov. Herbert Nav Of Utah were
listed among those who got one
second-choice vote.
Former Gov. Frank Lausche OF
Ohio and former Gov. Prentice
Cooper of Tennessee got one third
choice vote each.
The Governors balloting ran
strongly to State executives, includ-
ing some Senators and other officiels
who served as Governors before they
undertook other duties
The preferences they expressed, 1t
was made plain, were their per-
sonal choices and not necessarily
representative of their States polit-
ical views.