The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-06-21
Presidential
Race
BY The Associated Press


The Taft Eisenhower battle for
Republican presidential = nominal
ing votes took on bare-knuckle as
poets today, with the general
primed for a "rip-snorter" speech
and the senator saying his defense
is solid.
All indication at Denver were
that Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
weekend dash to Texas and Ne
vada would mark a departure
from his carefully polite routine to
date.
His chief rival for the COP pres
idential nomination, Ohio'S Sen.
Robert Taft. told a reporter in
Washington:
81 don't see how the Eisenhower
people can break through to win
at this point. They have not made
the Roadway they expected when
he returned home to campaign"
With 604 delegate votes needed
to nominate at the COP convention
July in Chicago. Taft has 467 to
Eisenhower's 1872 in the Associated
Press tabulation. This tally is
based on avowed and conceded
first-ballot alignments.
After flying from Denver to his
Denison, Tex, birthplace today,
Eisenhower goes to Dallas for con-
ferences and a speech. Aides said
he will 'take off the gloves" in
expressing his views over the con-
troversy surrounding Texas 49,
vote contested delegation.
Eisenhower visits the Hoover
Dam at Las Vegas, New, Sunday
for another talk, then returns to
Denver Sunday night. This trip
looked like an expedition to gain
background for answering ques-
tons by convention delegates from
the West, whose favor the general
has courted in conferences at Den
yer.
Various Eisenhower campaign
ers have called the Texas wrangle
an attempted "Steal' by Taft
forces. The Ohioan's hackers retort
that EiSenhower's Texas followers
are really Democrats in disguise.
The issue-whether a pro-Taft or
pro Eisenhower delegation should
be seated-is docketed for settle
ment by the Republican National
Committee.
Vote-hunting forays were the or
der of the day for the three front
running candidates for Democratic
nomination. The Associated Press
Scoreboard, with GIG delegate votes
needed at the July q Chicago
convention, lists Tennessee Sen.
Estes Kefauver in first place with
246. Next come Sen. Richard Rus
sell of Georgia with 114h and Mu-
tual Security Administrator Aver
ell Hartman with 95Is.
Kefauver was in Chicago today.
meeting with his Midwestern back
ers. Sunday he makes what his
camp calls major speech" at
$25-a-plate dinner there. At Rock
Island, Ill, Friday night he told
interviewerS he felt a Pentago
spending cut of four or five billion
dollars annually would not hurt
military firepower.
Hartman, bidding for Midwest
ern support, addresses Nebraska
democrats at Jefferson-Jackson
dinner at Omaha tonight. In Des
MoineS Friday, Hartman said he
can provide new crusading spirit
he believes America now needs.
Russell had a date today with
Idaho delegates at Boise. At Port
land, Ore. Friday. he said rear
mament is the most important is
sue in the country and any talk
about cutting taxes is foolish.
Both Taft and Eisenhower were
the targets of another COP presi.
dental hopeful, former Gov. Har-
old Stassen of Minnesota. Friday
night. In Philadelphia he told re-
porters he finds both men too con
sentative. He added: don't count
me out have a better chance
today than l did in le4s."
Meanwhile, Gov. John Fine saw
little hope of achieving any har-
mony in his 70-vote Pennsylvania
COP delegation-wooed by Taft
and Eisenhower forces as a key
stone bloc that could determine
close nomination race. Fine con
trolls at least 81 Of the states
votes and is not expected 10 an
nGunce his choice until the con
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