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majority ever given a guberna.
torial candidate and Mr.. Lehman
lost to Senator Ives. Republican
by 250,000 votes. Mr.. Lehman
ran far stronger. however, thar
did former Senator Mead, whe
was the Democratic nominee fol
Governor.
This year the election is com.
plicated still further for tht
Democrats because the American
Labor Party is putting in the fiele
candidates for both Governor ant
Senator. When Senator Lehman
was elected last November, defeat
ing Republican Senator Johl
Foster Dulles by less than 200,,
600 votes. the ALP refrained from
putting up a candidate for Sen
ator, who would have drawn vote
from Lehman not Dulles. If tn,
ALP ticket should pull 100000 tt
100000 votes next November. tn,
election might 60 very hard TO-
Mr.. Lehman-and indeed for tn,
whole Democratic ticket.
Mr.. Lynch, the Democrat,
nominee for Governor, is Sc year
old. He is spoken of by his col.
leagues in the House and tn,
Ways and Means Committee a
swell fellow" and that goe!
for Republicans as we'll as Demo.
Gratis. They like him personally
The Republicans, of course, can.
not swallow his New Dealism. bu
admit he has ability. They dom
believe for a minute, however
that he can defeat Gov. Dewey
His Democratic friends are still
trying to catch their breath ovel
his nomination.
The new Democratic nominee
for Governor is a graduate oi
Fordham University and Fordhan
Law School. He Is, OF course, 9
lawyer. At one time he was city
magistrate in New York, and he
was delegate to the New York
State Constitutional Convention
in 1888.
Elect Outstanding Men
The handicap Mr.. Lynch labors
under in his race against Mr.
Dewey is that he is practically
unknown outside his own congress
sional district. and there are 4a
other congressional districts in
New York. He has less than two
months to make himself known
to all these people.
New Workers have a tradition
They vote for able men for Gov
ernor of their State. That goes
for Democrats as well as Repub-
licans and for a large number OF
Independents. The consequence
is, that over the years, there have
been outstanding men serving as
Governors of New York. Four Of
them became Presidents Of the
United States, Martin Van Buren,
Grover Cleveland, Theodore
Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roose-
welt. Several others were candi.
dates for President-Samuel j
Tilden, Charles Evans Hughe.
and Alfred E. Smith. With Gov
Dewey's record as an able ad.
ministrator and Governor dur.
ing the last war in the balance
the odds seem to favor the Re.
publican over the Democrat ir
this race.
There were those who hoped
that Franklin D. Roosevelt. jr.
son of the late President, woule
be the nominee for Governor
There was. indeed, an incipent
boom for him. But Mr.. Roose-
welt, a member of the present
House Of Representatives and a
candidate for reelection, after a
talk with hard headed DanieI
P. O'Connell, leader Of Albany
County, decided not to press the
issue. Had he entered and beer
defeated for the nomination, OF
had he been nominated and de-
feated by Dewey in November
his political future would have
been dim, to say the least. AS il
is. he will be reelected to the
House IN a heavily Democratic
congressional district and will
have an opportunity to build him
self up as political figure.
The Democratic State Conven-
ton, in Rochester, did what the
New York City leaders wanted
They nominated Mr.. Lynch ovel
Oscar Ewing by a vote Of 1852 te
ST. Former State Supreme Court
Justice Walter Bliss received
votes. New York City casts most
of the Democratic vote IN the
State, and it is rare that the up.
state Democrats can rule the
roost. New York City is to hole
a mayoralty election November z
which is expected to bring out 6
big city vote and help the whole
Democratic State ticket. The
Democratic city leaders have Civ.
en- the nod to Justice Pecora oil
the State Supreme Court for the
nomination for Mayor. This
mayoralty election is regularly
held in years when there is ne
presidential or congressional elec-
ton. But Mayor William O'Dwy.
er recently sacrificed himself fol
the cause-and resigned as Mayor
to accept appointment as Am.
bassador to Mexico. It is just
possible, however, that this ma
neuver may go wrong as other
moves the Democratic leaders this
year have already done.
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