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BY The Assoeieted Press

Democrauc Party is uniting Tar
more solidly behind Gov. Adlai E.
Stevenson than it did behind Presi-
dent Truman.
Sen. Richard B. Russell of Geor-
gia, one of the losers in the race
or the nomination prize won by
Stevenson, said the Illinois COVER
nor will be elected President "by
one of the largest majorities any
man ever had"
Russell, after talk with Steven
son Wednesday, predicted the gov
ernor will carry the entire South.
He said he saw no indication of a
Dixie revolt like the one that split
the party in 1913.
South Carolina joined the grow
ing list Wednesday of Southern
states backing Stevenson. Earlier
in the week Georgia's Democratic
Executive Committee pledged its
electors to the governor, and Mis-
sissippi State Rights Democrats
failed to win control of the party
machinery-a good sign for Stew
enSon.
Only Texas remains a question
mark in the solid South. Gov. Allan
Shivers said Texas could 60 either
Democratic or Republican. He said
much depends on how Stevenson
feels about the tidelands oil issue.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Re-
publican presidential nominee, con-
tinued building unity in his own
party: He booked conferences to-
day with two more pre-convention
Taft supporters.
They were Gov. Len B. Jordan
of Idaho and George T. Hansen,
the party's national committeeman
from Utah. Both strongly backed
Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio for
the nomination.
The generals headquarters was
repeatedly cheered by develop
ments pointing to party unity
particularly by signs that bitter
ness in Ohio was fading.
Even while mending party fences
Eisenhower was busily mapping
campaign strategy. He confers
with top party leaders today and
Friday on plans for the rapidly
uaorino ramuaion e.
But he's keeping quiet about
what he plans to do, explaining:
During the war I never told the
enemy a month in advance where
was going to attack"
Tennessee today holds a state
primary-the fourth of the week
but the first in Dixie. A record
turnout is expected to decide he
fate of Sen. X. D. Mcclellan, 49,
year-old dean of the Senate who is
seeking an unprecedented seventh
term, and Gov. Gordon Browning,
out for a third term.
And Tennessee voters probably
will determine, perhaps finally,
what power Memphis political
leader E. H. Crump still yields.
Crump, whose grip on state politics
was broken four years ago by
Browning and Sen. Estes Kevauver
is backing Mcclellan, among 9TH
erS.
A vote of between 600, 900 and
zoo, 900 is predicted as the state,
for the first time, casts ballots
entirely free of poll-tax require
ments.
Returns still trickled in from
Tuesdays primaries in Missouri,
Michigan and Kansas, but they did
not change earlier standings Of
major candidates.
Interest conferred in the Missouri
Democratic senatorial race won
hands-down by w. Stuart Syming-
ton, a Truman administration trou-
bleshooter who bucked-and beat
the Presidents choice for the NOM
nation. Symington, new to Nilsson.
ri politics, defeated J. E. Taylor
by more than 1s0, 900 votes, despite
the backing Taylor got from Tru-
man.
Truman sent Symington a "per-
sonal warm telegram" of congrat-
ulations Wednesday.
There were these other develop
ments:
Eisenhower's running mate, Sen.
Richard NJ. Nixon of California,
is due in Denver Friday to confer
with the general-and maybe set
up his own headquarters nearby.
Former Sen. Francis ]. Meyers
of Pennsylvania and Rep. Michael
Kirwan Of Ohio were repeatedly
under consideration for appoint
ment as chairman of the Demo
cratic National Committee to re-
place Frank E. Mckinney, Tnu-