Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-28
Eisenhower STRENGTH
To Be Tested in
Texas Runoff Today
BY The Assoeioied Press

BY The Assoeioisd Press
DALLAS. Tex. Aug. 28.-Gov.
Allan Shivers and his opponent
for rs-election-Ralph Yarbor-
ough-squared of today in a
Democratic runoff primary
hailed as an Eisenhower popu-
larity test.
Voting began at z am. and
was to close at pm. (CST).
The vote was expected by many
to exceed the / .348, 900 total cast
in the July "A primary in which
Mr.. Shivers led Mr.. Marlborough
by 23,787 votes. The weather
was clear and hot over most of
Texas.
= One Of the bitterest political
campaigns in the memory of
veteran observers ended last
night with the candidates plug
ging where the votes were heav-
lest.
In Enemy Strongholds.
a, Mr.. Marlborough was in Dali
las. reputed Shivers stronghold.
Gov. Shivers was in Houston,
where Mr.. Marlborough expected
o huge union vote.
Party loyalty was a major
issue in the campaign which
grew hotter with the injection |
of such issues as racial segrega-
ton in public schools, support |
of the CLIO Political Action Com
mittee, support of the National
Association for, the Advancement |
of Colored People, and land
deal in which Mr.. Shivers made
q profit Of $425,000.
Mr.. Shivers campaigned for
Gen. Eisenhower in 1852, taking
the State party organization with
him. and carrying Texas for the
G. 0. P. for the second time
since Reconstruction Days after
the Civil War.
- Tidelands Issue.
He did it. he said, because
President Eisenhower promised
q return of the oil-rich tidelandS
to State ownership. Democrat
Adlai Stevenson, Mr.. Shivers
said. believed in Federal owner
ship.
~- Mr.. Marlborough said Gov.
Ehivers promised House Minority
Leader Sam Rayburn, the Demo-
sscratic conventions chairman,
that he would return to Texas
s@and support the Democratic
! nominee. Mr.. Rayburn and other
Democratic leaders concurred
5 with the Marlborough conten-
ton.
S. "a month later" Mr.. Var
borough said, my opponent was
back in Texas campaigning for
1.-THE Republicans in a turncoat
role"
Gov. Shiyers said his profit of
{ 425, 900 on o Rio Grande land
deal was in the American tradi-
tion. There's nothing wrong
with q man making money" he
said of the 1946 deal.
g Mr.. Marlborough denied Gov.
Shivers' charges that the CIO-
/ PAC, the NAACP and the Ameri-
cans for Democratic Action
auarterbacked his campaign and
Ted it financially. He said Gov.
Shivers 1nsulted the Texans who
voted for Mr.. Marlborough in the
first primary by calling them
outsiders"
Charges Of Deals.
Meanwhile, State Attorney
General John Ben Shepperd said
he would ask that ballots in Du-
val County of South Texas
stronghold Of Political Boss
George B. Parr-be impounded.
Both candidates accused the
other Of making deals with Mr..
:Parr for his support.
The attorney generals office
said there were widespread
rumors of fraud" in the area.
Two minor candidates, Arlon
b. (Cyclone) Davis of Dallas and
j. j. Holmes of Austin forced
the sudden-death runoff election
when they polled a total of sc, 800
votes in the first primary.
Gov. Shivers whipped Mr.. Var
borough decisely, by more than
100000 votes, in the 1852 cleo
tion before he led the State party
organization in it's backing of
Gen. Eisenhower.
In the only other Statewide
race. Associate Justice Few
Brewster of the State Supreme
Court faces Alfred M. Scott of
Austin.
Two Congressional seats, the
fifth Oallas) district and the
.14th (South Texas district are
also involved. Wallace Savage, a
Shivers supporter, is opposed by
Liberal Leslie Hacker at Dallas.
Two State Senators, John Bell of
.Cuero and William Shireman of
Corpus Christi. are vying in the
the other.