Evening star., 1952-06-18
Hartman Wins
In All but -Four
DC. Precincts
4-to-l Margin Over
Kefuuver in Primary
Comes as Surprise
By John V. Horner

Other District Primory Stories and Pic.
lures. Pages A. end AS
vention votes in balloting here
yesterday but the 4-to-1 licking
he took from w. Averell Hartman
was a clear-cut administration
victory in stop-Kefauver move
ment.
Margin Surprises Backers.
BY margin that surprised even
his most ardent admirers, Mr..
Hartman rolled up 14,075 votes to
3,377 for Senator Kefauver in q
contest novel for the disenfran-
chized citizens of Washington.
The primary vote was a personal
disappointment for Senator Ke-
fauver. AS member of the House
and the Senate for the last Is
years he has been one of the
stanchest advocates of the Dis
trict's interests. He espouses home
rule. which is dear to the hearts
of many citizens who never had
Ia vote.
Home rule was the subject of
one referendum question on the
ballot yesterday. The vote on this
issue is among those not yet
counted.
counted.
Mr.. Hartman captured all but
four of the city's As precincts, win.
ming many by overwhelming pro-
portions.
AS the fair-haired boy of the
Truman administration, Mr.. Har-
riman played strongly to-and
was supported by-a vast majority
Iof Government workers and the
Negro population.
In the Alabama avenue section
of the Southeast. his score was
464 against Senator Kefauver's IA.
In the Northeast, he won by such
impressive margins as 720 to 40
and 361 to 5. On U street North-
west, predominantly colored area,
he coasted in with 1.158 votes to
only 80 for the Senator.
1t was Mr.. Harriman's first
preferential primary fight and
Senator Kefauver's 10th. The Ten
nessee legislator had won every
where else but in Florida, and
there he polled more than A per
cent of the vote.
Called Second Lincoln"
Mr.. Hartman was supported by
such civic leaders as Mrs.
Mary Church Terrell, 88-year-
old-Negro Republican, and the
Rev. Smallwood Williams Of
the Bible Way Church, who led
400 colored persons to the polling
place at 219 M street NV. One
Of the marchers called Mr.. Harri-
man a second Abe Lincoln"
Senator Kefauver, who is con-
sidered a liberal by his Southern
colleagues in Congress, declined to
go all-out on a civil rights pro-
gram. though he said he would
support any platform plank adopt
ed at the national convention.
What became of the labor vote
here yesterday is a mystery left
for the political analysts. SEN
ator Kefauver had the formal
Endorsement of most big labor
groups but the small vote he re-
ceived suggests the union element
went fishing.
Many of those who voted in the
primary marked their ballots only
in the Kefauver-Harriman con-
test, ignoring the contests for
the convention delegation, the
Central Committee and National
Committee.
Tabulation Resumed.
The election judges last night
undertook only the counting of
votes in the presidential prefer
ence race. The tabulation for the
rest of the ballot was resumed
today.
The voting closed a bitter CAM
paign. Wounds were opened by
two local factions headed by A. L.
Wheeler, chairman of the local
party. and William A. Roberts. a
well-known attorney. Mr.. Roberts
took his complaints to the courts
but was unable to get an in
junction against rules for the
primary which were adopted by
the organization.
Senator Kefauver was unavail-
able for comment on the primary
outcome but Mr.. Hartman was
jubilant. He said:
THE unprecedented turnout of
the voters in this primary-the
first one in which I have been
able to participate-gives me great
confidence to carry on the battle
for continued progress in our
country based on the principles
Of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and
President Harry Truman.
Il am grateful to the thousands
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