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observers say that Senator Mag.
!, nuson should win by $4,000
votes up.
: Democrats Concede Nothing.
On the other hand, Democrats
do not admit for a minute that
they will lose in five congressional
) districts and win only in one
Democratic Chairman Ed Munro
!; ;Iof King County (Seattle) still
!; hopes that he will elect Repre-
i sentative Mitchell in the 1st con-
Igressional district which embraces
most of Seattle. Further, he
hopes the Democratic candidates
will win the Sd and 9Th districts,
now held, respectively. by Re-
publican Representatives Mack
and Tollefson. The Democratic
nominee is Gordan Quarnstrom
in the Sd, and former Represent
ative John M. Coffee in the 9Th
district.
The Democrats feel they have
shaken the Communist tinge from
which their party suffered in the
terrible Republican days of 1916.
| In that year every Republican
candidate for Office was running
against former Representative
Hugh De Lacy in the 1st district,
who was charged with being COM
munistic in the extreme. He was
a symbol. And practically every
Democrat went down to defeat
that year except Representative
jackson in the End district who
squeaked by and retained his
House seat.
Haven't Given Up Issue.
The Republicans elected Sem
ator Cain and five of the six
members of the House in that
election. Mr.. De Lacy is no longer
in the State-and so far as the
democrats are concerned-he can
stay away forever.
The Republicans have by no
means given up the communist
issue. however. and in the cam
paign they will charge guilt by
association against a number
of the Democratic candidates,
among them Mr.. Coffee and Sen
ator Magnuson himself. Further,
they will do a lot of talking about
the soft manner in which COM
munists and fellow travellers have
been dealt with in the past by
the Roosevelt and Truman
administrations.
Representative Jackson is the
fair-haired Democratic boy in
this State, next to Senator Mag
nuson. He is likely to be the
Democratic nominee against Sen
ator Cain, when the Senator
comes up for reelection in 1852.
The Republicans feel they have
little chance against Mr.. Jackson
this year in his I'd congressional
district fight. Nevertheless, they
hope to cut into his almost 2-to-1
strength in past elections-excepr
1946. They have put up a likely
Republican, Herb Wilson, against
him, having finally rid them
selves of perennial candidate in
that district, Payson Peterson,
who was invariably defeated.
Cross Party Lines.
In Washington, voters are not
registered as Democrats or Re-
IpublicanS or independents-or
anything else. If they are regis
tered, they can go into any pri-
mary they fancy. So Republicans
cross over into Democratic pri-
maries, and Democrats vice versa
The Republicans shrewdly suspect
that Democrats for years had been
making it possible for Mr.. Peter
son to win nominations in the
I'D district-because he was an easy
target in the general elections.
This facility in the matter OF
: voting Democratic or Republican
in primary elections, added to the
fact that city and municipal elec-
tions are non-partisan affairs, with
candidates not designated as either
Democrat or Republican, has made
it virtually impossible to build uI
strong party organizations such as
exist in Illinois, New York and
many other States.
The voters wear party labels
lightly and party collars not at
all. If there is a party machine
it is the Governors, for he ap-
points about $4,000 State employees
In State where nearly a million
, votes are cast, such an organiza-
ton is little more than drop in
the bucket.
The Democrats have nominated
/. Ted Little to run against Repre-
? sentative Hal Holmes in the 4tt
district, and Robert Dellwo against
Representative Walt Horan in the
5th district. The chances for Re.
publican victory in those districts
: however, seem good.