Milford chronicle., 1956-11-09
Eisenhower StUeep Con-
tinues To Mount As Late
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Stevenson states in Dixie were
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mis-
sissippi, North and South Carolina.
Eisenhower more than offset his
loss in Missouri by snatching away
three states that went to Steven
son in 1852 Kentucky, West Vir-
ginia and Louisiana. Not since 1876
and reconstruction days had Lou
isiana voted for a Republican for
President. That was the year Ruth
erford B. Hayes won.
With Congress. it was a differ
ent story. Eisenhower simply
couldn't pull enough Republican
Senate and House coattail clingers
along with him.
Democrats clinched control of
the House at 1880 y. m. EST and
followed through by mailing down
the Senate at 1:23.
The election of Rep. Winfield K.
Denton to another term in Indiana
put the Democrats over the top in
The battle for House seats. He was
their 21Sth winner.
Then when Senator Allen Bible
got another term in Nevada, the
Democrats hit 40 and numerical
margin in the Senate.
For Eisenhower. a Democratic
Congress may be no insuperable
handicap. After al, he has had one
for two years now and has heen
getting along fairly well with il.
In fact, Democrats contend that on
issue after issue, they have given
him a sturdier support than his
own party.
The PresideAt himself moved i'm
Inediately to solidify bipartisan
ship and unity on foreign affairs,
at least.
He summoned congressional
leaders of both parties to con-
ference at the White House FRI
day on the troublesome question
of bringing peace te the Middle
East.
The Stevenson defeat and the
Eisenhower victory we're made up
mainly of two factors
The people still like Ike and
showed it.
They were worried bit about
world conditions-shooting in Hun
gary and Egypt. And they showed
that
The peace and prosperity Eisen-
hover and the COP proclaimed
throughout the land was a potent
campaign theme. Voters just
weren't in much of a mind to make
change particularly after the
clash of. arms sounded across fhe
Atlantic from mid-Europe and the
Middle East.
Clearly, a renewed threat of war
on the Eastern horizon swung
some ballots to Eisenhower
Furthermore, for Eisenhower and
Stevenson there simply weren't
any tremendous, fundamental diff
ferences in approach to most ma
ior problems at home and over
seas Stevenson had little new to
OF in the way Of political wares.
The Democratic nominee tried
with. such ideas as ending the draft
and the testing of hydrogen bombs
| but he couldn't sell them to enough
people to make showing.
Even on the farms, peace out
weighed prosperity as compelling
issue. The farm belt revolt" the
Democrats had predicted certainly
was no angry, massive rebellion.
It did make itself felt in some
congressional and gubernatorial
contests. But aside from Missouri,
Eisenhower hauled in all the ma
tion's breadbasket states.
To Secretary of Labor Mitchell
| it looked as though the election
results "dispel forever the myth
that the Democratic Party is the
party of labor"
Obviously many working men
disregarded the recommendations
of the AFL-CIO high command that
they vote for Stevenson. Some did,
| of course-perhaps the majority
i Of them But the way Eisenhower
ran in big cities offered evidence
that his popularity extends to some
extent into the ranks of labor.
The election produced no signs
that there is a labor vote as such,
or a farm vote. or a Negro vote.
The evidence pointed instead to
the idea that American voters are
an independent lot who vote for
the man rather than the party
and split their tickets in signifi-
cant number of instances.
In Louisiana, the city vote
switched to Eisenhower under the
impetus of war fears and the help
of Negroes. Baltimore, with a large
Negro population, went for Eisen-
hover vim all of Maryland. Sc
did Chicago
Evidently Eisenhower moderate
approach to the racial and civil
rights issue helped him with white
Southerners and didn't ALLEVIATE
Negroes to any great degree. The
President, in contrast with Steven
son, never openly endorsed the
Supreme Court decision outlawing
racial segregation in pub C
schools.
Whatever the reasons, Eisen-
hover rolled up the most lopsided
election victory in recent political
history, although he still fell short
of the incredible record of the late
President Roosevelt set in 1886.
Trying for a second term then,
FDR took every state but Maine
and Vermont. He rolled over Re-
publican Alf NJ. Landon by a mar
gin of nearly 11,000.00 votes.
For Stevenson, the results this
time probably have written "finis
to his attempts to become Presi-
dent. The two decisive defeats he
has suffered would seem to fore
close a third try.