Evening star., 1954-10-29
Senator Ives Viewed
As Trimming Lead
Held by Hartman
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the last dozen years. and in the
overwhelming pluralities by
which President Eisenhower and
Senator Ives carried the State in
1852. Mr.. Hartman. they be-
lieved. was an easy candidate to
defeat. They had to revise their
estimates, which they did quickly.
Senator Ives and Gov. Dewey
began a series of attacks on Mr..
Hartman. particularly on his
record as a big businessman.
"Smears," Mr.. Hartman an
swered. Finally, Gov. Dewey is
claiming that Mr.. Hartman Is
ineligible to be elected Governor
of New York because Mr.. Harri-
man swore to the fact he had
lived in Washington for IL
months at the time he voted in
q primary in the Capital City in
1852. The New York Constitu-
ton requires five years. continu-
Gus residence in New York for q
man to be eligible for election
as Governor.
Whether this contention of
Gov. Dewey's can be made to
stick or not. it has caused con-
siderable confusion in the public
mind. If Mr.. Hartman were
elected and the matter of his
eligibility to: serve was carried
into the courts and the courts
held he could not serve, the
Lieutenant Governor would be-
come acting Governor for four
years. This means George B.
Deluca, Mr.. Harriman's running
mate for Lieutenant Governor,
would sit in Albany as the States
Chief Executive. Mr.. Deluca has
been District Attorney in the
Bronx. He was put on the ticket
in an angle for the big Italian
vote, which incidentally, went
strongly Republican two years
ago. A top Republican predicted
today the matter would be taken
into the courts If Mr.. Hartman
is elected.
Gov. Dewey Is conducting a
smashing, hard driving campaign
for Senator Ives in these final
days. He and Senator Ives to-
gether have finally gotten the
Republican campaign off the
ground. It was dull as dishwater.
Gen. Eisenhower's trips into the
State helped to bring Republican
workers and voters to life.
Whether Gov. Dewey can trans
fer his strength to Senator Ives,
and the President can transfer
his popularity, is a question.
Democratic leaders say it can't
be done. Some admit privately.
however. that the Ives candidacy
has been picking up. But they
insist that the gain will not be
enough to land him a winner.
Republican Charges.
What bothers the Democrats
most. however, is the more re-
cent Republican charges that If
the State is turned over to Mr..
Hartman and the men who are
backing him in New York City,
upstate districts and communi-
ties will find their taxes for
schools greatly increased. It all
stems from a radio address de-
livered by an aid of Mayor Wag-
ner of New York, in which Mr..
Wagner and other leaders were
placed on record as favoring
State aid for public schools on
the basis of the number of pupils
involved.
Under the present arrange
ment State aid is governed by
the real estate values of commu-
mites as well as by the number
of pupils. Real estate value, and
the taxes on them, are so much
higher in New York City that
State air, running into the hun
dreds of missions of dollars, has
been considerably greater in the
upstate districts and communi-
ties. The city politicians have
been eager to have a change,
under which the city schools
would receive a greater share of
State aid.
All this has been broadcast in
detail by the Republicans. with
figures worked out for the viii
lagos, towns and cities upstate
indicating how much extra taxes
they would have to raise. Fol
example. in Oneida County
alone, the people would have tc
pay 81 million more for schools