Evening star., 1948-05-06
Stassen' S 9 Delegates
Are Victory or Defeat
Depending on View
BY the Associoted Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May g.
Harold E. Stassen's capture of
nine Ohio Republican presiden-
tial delegates today was called
victory or defeat - depending
on which way you looked.
Senator Taft won the other IA
contested delegates, plus 80 without
opposition from the former Mime
sofa governor, nearly complete re-
turns showed
Both Senator Taft and Mr.. Stas-
sen hailed the outcome of Tuesdays
primary election as a personal vic
tory. Their delegates are pledged
to support them for the COP presi-
Dental nomination at the national
convention next month.
Taft Voices Pleasure.
Senator Taft from Washington
said his A Ohio delegates assured
him of more first ballot convention
votes than any other candidate.
Mr.. Stassen said his was clear
cut victory-one of the most signi-
ficant developments of the entire
national campaign"
THE Republicans Of Ohio have
advanced us another step toward
nomination at Philadelphia" Mr.
Stassen asserted at Minneapolis.
Flush with victories in Wisconsin,
Nebraska and Pennsylvania pri-
maries. Mr.. Stassen had predicted
he would get a dozen Ohio dele
gates, including one from the State
at-large
He selected industrialized areas
principally for his battle grounds,
apparently expecting to capitalize
on sentiment against the Taft
Hartley law.
Stassen At-large Delegate Loses.
The payoff was Stassen sweep
of delegates in the Toledo, Akron,
youngstown and Dayton areas. He
split with Taft in one Cleveland
district but lost the others there,
and in the Canton, Steubenville,
Springfield and Portsmouth sectors.
Darlington T. Marshall, Colum-
bus attorney and former chief JUS
tice of the Ohio Supreme Court,
was Mr.. Stassen's only delegate-at-
large candidate. With nine to be
elected on Statewide basis, Mr.
Marshall ran a distant 10th.
Taft people noted that Mr.
Stassen had said he would not re-
gard his Ohio race as a victory
unless Mr.. Marshalls vote total
equaled the average received by
Taft delegates large.
Senator Taft, himself, in prepri-
mary forecasts. refused to concede
Stassen a single delegate, but his
campaign manager. Representative
Brown, said, Par for the course is
four to nine"
Senator Bricker led the at-large
field with 410,513 votes, with $3.50
of 1886 polling places reported. Ed
D. Schorr of Cincinnati, former
State COP chairman, was lowest
of the nine winners with 330524.
Mr.. Marshall ran out with 318871.
Senator Taft thanked Ohio voters
for their Overwhelming support. "
He said it was significant that Mr..
Stassen won six of his delegates in
the industrial areas of Akron.
Youngstown and Dayton. He de-
scribed those cities as strongly
Democratic with a large labor vote
and added:
There is evidence that many
New Dealers and radical Democrats
crossed over and voted in the Re-
publican primarys on the request
and instruction of Stassen mana
gers"
No Democratic Contest.
Supporting Senator Taft's conten-
ton were totals from normally DEM
ocratic Summit County, where
Akron is located. Republicans there
cast 4l,876 votes to 1868 by Demo-
Gratis.
There was no contest for dele
gates on the Democratic side. All
so Democratic convention delegates
are pledged nominally to w. A.
Julian of Cincinnati, treasurer of
the United States, but are COM
mitted to vote for President Tru-
man.
One of the hottest State races
was for the Democratic guberna-
torial nomination. Former Gov.
Frank 3. Lausche outstripped Ray
T. Miller, former Cuyahoga County
Democratic chairman and eX-
Cleveland Mayor, nearly 3-to-1. In
the November 2 election Mr..
Lausche will oppose Republican Gov.
Thomas j. Herbert, who nosed him
out by about 10000 votes two years
ago.
Republican Representative at
Large George H. Bender of Cleve-
land and all % incumbent Repre-
sentatives, four of them Democrats,