The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-28
Texas Demos
Have Runoff
Vote Today
BY CLAYTON HlcKERsoN

DALLAS, Tex. R-GOv. Allan
Shivers and his opponent for re-
election Ralph Marlborough -
squared off today in Democratic
runoff primary hailed as an Eisen-
hover popularity test.
The vote was expected BY many
to exceed the 900 total cast
in the July "a primary in which
Shivers led Marlborough By 2S,7S7
votes.
One of the bitterest political
campaigns in the memory Of vet
eran observers ended last night
with the candidates plugging
where the votes were heaviest.
Each predicted victory.
Marlborough was In Dallas, re-
puted Shivers stronghold. Shivers
was In Houston, where Marlborough
expected a huge union vote.
Party loyalty was = major issue
in the campaign which grew hotter
with the injection Of such issues
as racial segregation in public
schools, support Of the clio PoHti-
cal Action Committee, support Of
the National Assn. for the Adj
vancement Of COIOred People, and
land deal in which Shivers made
= profit Of so, 900.
Shivers campaigned for Repuh-
lican Dwight D. Eisenhower in
1852, taking the state party organ
ization with him, and carrying
Texas for the COP for the second
time since reconstruction days fol-
lowing the Civil War.
He did it, he said, because Ei-
senhower promised 4 return Of the
supposedly oil-rich tidelands to
state ownership. Democrat AdIai
Stevenson, Shivers said, believed
in federal ownership.
81 did it for the school children
of Texas" Shivers said. Money
received from tideland leases and
royalties goes into the states per-
manent school fund.
But Marlborough said Shiyers
promised House Minority Leader
Sam Rayburn, the Democratic
conventions chairman, that he
would return to Texas and support
the Democratic nominee. Rayburn
and other Democratic leaders con-
CURED with the Yarborc1gh con.
tention.
"A month later" Marlborough
said, ''my opponent was back il
Texas campaigning for the Repuh-
lcans In q turncoat role"
Shivers said his profit Of 80, 200
on 4 Rio Grande land deal was In
the American tradition. There's
nothing wrong with q man max
ing money" he said Of the 1915
deal.
Marlborough denied Shivers'
charges that the CIO-PAC, the
NAACP and the Americans for
Democratic Action quarterbacked
his campaign and fed Il financial
ly. He said Shivers insulted the
Texans who voted for Marlborough
IN the first primary by calling
them outsiders"
Meanwhile, State Atty. Gen. John
Ben Shepperd said he would ask
that ballots in Duval County Of
South Texas-stronghold Of poIiti-
cal Boss George B. Parr-be i'm.
pounded. Both candidates accused
the other of making deals with
Parr for his support.
Shivers whipped Marlborough de-
cisively, by more than 800, 900
votes, in the 1852 election before
ne led the state party organization
in its backing Of Eisenhower.
In the only other statewide race,
Associate Justice Few Brewster of
the State Supreme Court faces Al
fred NJ. Scott Of Austin.
Two congressional seats are also
involved. Wallace Savage, 4 Shtv-
ers supporter, is opposed By Liber-
al Leslie Hacker at Dallas. Two
state senator's, John Ben Of Cuero
and William Shireman Of Corpus
Christi, are wing in the other.