Evening star., 1950-03-12

Gal lives Oh tIle OeIuOCTdClC ledU6E
he Democratic whip of the Senate.
South Carolina; July 18, Mon
tana; July %, Texas; July Is,
August /, Kansas, Missouri. Vir-
ginia and West Virginia; August
3, Tennessee; August 5, Kentucky;
8, Idaho. Nebraska; Au-
gust %. Mississippi, Wyoming;
August 90, Louisiana.
September S, Nevada, Utah;
September II, Maryland; Sep
tember IL, Arizona, Colorado,
Minnesota. New Hamp-
shire, Vermont and Washington;
10, Massachusetts,, New
York and Wisconsin. September
18, Rhode Island Democratic)
and September 27, Rhode Island
(Republican).
The political parties will set the
dates for nominating conventions
in Connecticut, Delaware and New
York.
In one state, Connecticut, the
Republicans have a chance to pick
up two Senate seats. There Senator
Mcmahon and Senator Benton,
Democrats, are standing for re-
nomination and reelection. The
Republicans so far are at sea.
When Senator Baldwin resigned
last December, he left big hole
in the G. o. P. leadership. He
had been governor as well as
Senator and the party's prize vote
getter. Representative John Davis
Lodge, a brother of Senator Lodge
of Massachusetts,, is talked of both
for the senatorial and guber-
material nominations in Connecti-
cut. Efforts are being made to get
Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, former
member of the House, to run for
the Senate. While Mrs. Luce has
not slammed the door tight, she
has still to be persuaded. Former
Representative Talbot and former
Republican National Committee
man Kenneth Bradley are also un-
der consideration.
Mrs. Douglas Crusades
Among the primary fights for
senatorial nominations one of the
most interesting and significant
will be the race between Senator
Johnston of South Carolina and
Gov. Thurmond. Gov. Thurmond
was the States Rights presidential
candidate in 1948. Mr.. Johnston
stood as much as possible on the
sidelines in that struggle, and the
Truman Administration would
dearly love to see him win over
Gov. Thurnond. More or less in
volved in the senatorial picture in
South Carolina is the candidacy
of former Secretary of State
James F. Byrnes for governor. Mr..
Byrnes has announced himself as
an opponent of the Truman fair
deal program, and Gov. Thurmond
has declared that Mr.. Byrnes
should be elected.
Two other senatorial primary
campaigns on the Democratic side,
which are arousing great interest
are in California and Florida. Mrs.
Helen Gahagan Douglas, who has
had three terms in the House, Is
after the scalp of Senator Downey.
She seems to be gaining ground,
with crusading campaign, draw
ing large crowds and unless Sena-s
tor Downey goes home and ac-
lively campaignS-and even If he
does-he is going to have tough
time beating Mrs. Douglas. Rep
resentative Nixon, who has an
nounced for the Republican sena-a
torial nomination, will cross file
the custom in Californian the
Democratic primary and may get
a considerable number of Demo-
cratic votes. Those he does re-
ceive are more likely to be drawn
from Downey than from Mrs.
Douglas.
Warren Holds Edge
Attracting even greater interest
will be the race next November
between Gov. Warren, Republican,
and James Roosevelt, son Of the
late President, for Governor. Mr.,
Roosevelt has been drawing large
crowds, too. He has to fear, how
ever, the Democrats. who are
badly split into factions. This
gives Gov. Warren the edge at the
present writing. A Warren victory
would explode the Roosevelt
myth" (the power of the name
in politics) so far as California is
concerned. !
Senator Pepper. old master at
political campaigning, is down in
Florida beating the bushes for
support. Representative Smathers.
his opponent, who served in the
Marine Corps during the last war,
is putting up real fight and it
is by no means certain that Mr..
Pepper will win. A Pepper defeat
would remove from the upper
house an aggressive liberal who
has gone along with the Roose-
velt New Deal and the Truman
fair deal, while many of his COL
leagues from the South have been
opposed.
Two Republican Senators who
have often been thorns in the side
of their party leadership, Morse.
of Oregon and Tobey of New
Hampshire. have contests on
their hands in the coming primary
elections. There is a dyed-in-
wool Republican old guard in Ore
gon which hates Senator Morse.
It asserts vehemently that Sena-
tor Morse is mo Republican" Its
difficulty has been to find a candi-
date who had a real chance
against Morse in the primary.
Two men have filed in the pri-
mary, Fred Robinson, who owns
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