Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-11-06
Voting Tuesday
To Be Watched
For 1950C|ues
New York Senate Seat
Jersey Governorship
Are Principal Tests
By Gould Lincoln

New York's senatorial race and
the gubernatorial election in New
Jersey will be the principal tests
of Democratic and Republican
strength in Tuesdays elections,
in which both parties will seek
trends" to victory in the 1850
congressional elections.
Politicians, however, also will
seek auguries for the future in
an election in CALIFORNIA; fifth
congressional district to fill va
cancy caused by the death of Rep
resentative Richard j. Welsh, Re-
publican: in an election to fill
a Democratic vacancy in the tenth
New York district, and in mayor
atty races in New York City, De-
troit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Louis
vile and a number of other cities.
The results of these elections
may show, in some degree. whether
President Truman and his Fair
Deal" program have gained or lost
strength among the voters. They
also may give some indication how
that program will fare in the sec
ond session of the 81st Congress.
Odds Favor Lehman.
In New York the Democrats,
local and national. have exerted
every possible pressure and per-
suasion to bring about the cleo
ton of former Gov. Herbert H.
Lehman over Senator John Foster
Dulles, his Republican opponent.
for the Senate vacancy created
by the resignation of Sen. Robert
F. Wagner.
Vice President Barley and two
members of the Cabinet, Attorney
General McGrath and Secretary
of Labor Tobin were called in to-
speak for Mr.. Lehman. and Pres
ident Truman himself took to
the air last night in broadcast
urging the voters to elect Mr.
Lehman and the entire Democrat
ic ticket.
MIR. Lehman himself has skipped
about the State in an active cam
paign despite his II years. Or
gained labor-the AFL, the CLIO,
and the railroad brotherhoods--
nave all united in support of MIR
Lehman. The odds appear to
favor the former governor, al
though Republicans continue to
hope that a large upstate vote
will save Senator Dulles.
Senator Dulles, who holds the
Wagner seat under appointment
of Gov. Dewey, has conducted a
slam-bang campaign, attacking
the Truman program as leading
inevitably to S"statism" and Mr.. !
Lehman as a supporter of that
program. He has charged Mr..
Lehman with accepting Commu-
mist support and Mr.. Lehman has
retaliated by calling Mr.. Dulles a
"bigot."
Driscoll Ahead in New Jersey.
A Lehman victory would be
hailed by the Truman administra-
ton as clear indication that the
people of New York favor the Fair
Deal program. and as an indica-
ton that victory will perch on
Democratic banners in the con-
gressional elections next year.
New York has gone Republican
in its last two gubernatorial cleo
tons, was chalked up for Dewey
in the presidential election last
year, and elected a Republican
Senator, Irving Ives, in 1916.
Senator Ives defeated Mr.. Lehman
in that race by $4,000 votes.
That, however, was Republican
year, and Gov. Dewey headed the
Republican ticket, carrying the
State by $4,000 votes.
should Senator Dulles be
elected. on the other hand, the
prestige of Mr.. Truman and his
program would suffer hard blow.
Further. New York would have
two Republican Senators for the
(See TTNCOI,N pace A-51