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port DeCWeen the StaSSen and the
Warren camps is remarkable in
itself. Mr.. Stassen has gone SO
far as to offer to turn over half
his Wisconsin delegates to Gen.
Eisenhower on the first ballot at
the national convention, an offer
which amazed and confounded his
own followers.
Gov. Warren insists he is q
candidate in his own right and is
turning over no delegates to any,
one. However. his delegates candi-
dates have shouted loudly that
they will vote for Gen. Eisenhower
if and when it is clear Gov. War
rem cannot be nominated.
On the Democratic side. Senator
Kefauver seems assured of winning
the Wisconsin delegates. Two
Ifavorite-son candidates who were
favorable to President Truman,
are running against him. They
Iare running against him. They
ARE Jerome F. Fox and Charles E.
Broughton, each with a slate of
delegate candidates.
Mr.. Fox is the candidate of the
Democratic organization commit
tee. This committee is playing
both ends against the middle. It
not only gave Mr.. Fox his list of
delegate candidates, but also gave
a list to Senator Kefauyer. Its
leaders say that Senator Kefauver
will be the victor.
b Nebraska Write-In Drive.
s The nebraska primary. brings
Senator TAFT and Gen. Eisen-
hover into direct conflict through
a write-in drive in the presiden-
tial preference vote. The Taft
people took the initiative in fore
ing this popularity contest. and
the Eisenhower camp. locally, ac-
|cepted the challenge. Both sides
are hard at it and claiming vic
tory. Senator Taft has the sup
port in Nebraska of the Butler
Shotwell organization. Most. of
the delegate candidates for Ne
braska's 18 seats in the national
convention are known to be ia
vorable to the Ohioan, although
they do not run as pledged in
Nebraska.
/ The preference vote is advisory,
not binding. Mr.. StasSen is the
only principal candidate formally
entered in the preference primary.
Mrs. Mary Kenny. a Macarthur
follower, also is entered.
The newspapers in Nebraska
are carrying full page advertise
ments, telling the voters how to
write in their choices for the
presidential nomination.
The last successful write-in
drive in Nebraska occurred in
1914. At that time Wendell L.
tWllkie, having suffered defeat in
the Wisconsin primary, Withdrew
from the race for the Republican
presidential nomination. That left
only Mr.. Stassen on the Nebraska
ballot. The supporters of Gov.
Dewey Of New York, who had not
been entered in the primary.
staged last minute drive and
obtained 18,418 write-in votes for
the New Yorker.
Kefauver and Kerr.
In the Democratic Nebraska
primary, Senator Kefauver is
running against Senator Kerr of
Oklahoma. Both have been cam
paigning throughout the State.
Senator Kerr has the support of
the Quigley- Boyle Democratic or
lganization. He is also, according
ito reports, spending a lot of
money for radio time and adver-
tising Of various kinds.
Senator Kefauver has at
tackled Senator Kerr as a mill
llonnaire oil and gas man who
sponsored natural gas bill which
would have increased the gas bills
or the consumers by hundreds Of
millions of dollars, had not Presi-
dent Truman vetoed it.
Senator Kerr. for his part, is
telling the supposedly isolationist
voters in Nebraska that Senator
kefauver is super-international-
llst. Many observers give Senator
lkefauver the edge in the race. on
the ground that he is far more
widely known than Senator Kerr,