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Fight for Senate Seats
to Be Waged in
Is States
By Jock Bell

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Democrats, with a comfortable
anchor to windward in Dixie. con-
tend they can't lose the Senate
short of a COP landslide. And
they aren't too worried about the
House.
But the Republicans are going
to give it a little more than the
old college try in Is States where
they figure the battle for the
Senate will be fought and where
control of the House also may
turn.
AS far as the Senate races are
concerned, these States are dl-
vioed roughly into three classes:
/. Those where the Republicans
will go cunning in big way for
Democratic seats - Connecticut,
New York, Pennsylvania. Illinois
and Idaho.
/ z. Those where they will try to
cling to the senatorial positions
they now hold-Ohio, Indiana,
Iowa, Missouri and Colorado.
3. Those where COP leaders
concede they really have tough
going in attempts to unseat DEM
ocrats - Kentucky, California,
Washington, Utah and Nevada.
In the No. l area. Republicans
think their chances in the Senate
races are so good they already are
talking about who will bear their
banner.
Dewey Question
New York, OF course. will remain
up in the air until it becomes clear
whether Thomas E. Dewey is
giving up politics with the end OF
his present term as Governor or
whether he still bankers to come
to Washington. The Democrats
are almost certain to come up
with a nominee other than Sena-
tor Robert Wagner, who has been
ill for a long time.
In Pennsylvania. Republican
Gov. James Duff looks like sure
Senate entry. Democratic Senator
Francis j. Myers is reported losing
some sleep. Senator Scott Lucas
of Illinois has to get new stamp
of approval from the voters if he
wants to continue as majority
leader. The Truman administra-
ton will put everything into this
fight.
Illinois Republicans are reported
trying to work out something to
prevent former Senator c. Way
land "Curley" Brooks and former
Representative Everett M. Dirksen
from butting heads in a primary
battle that might be fatal to
either's chances against Lucas.
In Connecticut Republicans ex-
pect to come up with strong can
didate against Senator Brien Nc
Mahon. In Idaho former Senator
Henry c. Dworshak is expected to
battle Senator Glen Taylor. who
ran with Henry Wallace last fall,
or whomever the Democrats pick
in his place.
Out to Get Taft
Labor is out to get Senator Rob-
ert A. Taft in Ohio. and the Dem
ocrats will pour on the coal in an
effort to beat Senator Forrest C..
Donnel in Missouri.
Senator Homer C. Capehart ex-
poets a battle in Indiana, but Re-
pulicans hope that Iowa. which
Topped into the Democratic COL
umn last November. will re-elect
Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper.
The COP leaders aren't worried
too much that a Democrat can
take the measure of Senator Eu-
gene D. Millikin, Republican con-
ference chairman, in Colorado.
But they generally look on their
Far Western chances as something
a little less than $3.50.
They figure that they could beat
Senator Sheridan Downey in Cal
ifornia. They would like Gov.
Earl Warren to try it. but don't
think much of the prospects.
Because they won the governor
ships in both States last Novem-
Der, the COP is counting on STIR
ring up trouble for Senators War
rem G. Magnuson in Washington
and Ebert D. Thomas in Utah.
However, they regard Senator Pat
McCarran, Nevada Democrat, as
a tough customer.
Battle in Kentucky
Kentucky has been added to the
backgrounds by the Republicans
almost solely because they think
former Senator John S. Cooper
has a chance to stage a come
back. But the Democrats aren't
going to let Vice President Bark
ley's home State get away from
them without the hardest kind OF
a fight.
They have written off any
chances in Arkansas, Louisiana,
Alabama, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Florida and Georgia.
There will be some Republican
noise-and that's about all un-
less conditions change radically
about races in Arizona, Oklahoma
and Maryland.
The Republicans have only
seven States they look upon as
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