Evening star., 1960-05-09
Primary Rivals
NearWindupin in
West Virginia
Most of Final Shots
Being Fired Off
By Mimeoeroph
By MARY McGRORY
Star stan Writer

| CHAhLESION, w. va, May
l9-In the last hours of West
Virginia's presidential primary
campaign, most of the feuding
| is between the mimeograph ma
chimes of the two Democratic
rivals, Senators Kennedy OF
Massachusetts, and Humphrey
of Minnesota.
The hail of statements which
will stop tomorrow with the
vote have the kick of mountain
brew and the piercing quality
of hillbilly fiddles. They are
also somewhat at variance with
what comes out of the horses
mouths.
You take the scorcher that
came off the Kennedy ma
chimes yesterday afternoon.
IN IA years of public life
in three campaigns for the
House of Representatives and
two for the United States Sen
ate-I have never been subject
to so much personal abuse"
May Bury Hatchet
Reporters who had heard
Senator Humphrey call him
"the spoiled candidate" and
"papa's boy" on Saturday fig
ured Senator Kennedy was
fightin' mad, so they all rushed
around to corner him after he
came off a televiSion show. Did
he think things would ever be
patched up? he was asked.
Il hope so" said Senator
Kennedy cheerfully. 1T may
take a day or two
Fire-eater Humphrey has
been eating his words, too.
At press conference, he called
Senator Kennedy's most popu-
lar imported advocate, Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, jr., who has
brought Senator Humphreys
lack of a war record into the
campaign, a "grave-digger." /"
But while sharing a platform
with Mr.. Roosevelt, Senator
Humphrey faced up manfully
to the realities of the situation.
Knowing that to rap a
Roosevelt in public here is as
practical as throwing yourself
into the Kanawha River. he
recalled the happy days when
FDR, jr., had campaigned for
him, and said, Il like him"
Monograph Differs
1t was left for the mimeo-
graph machines to Spew out a
franker version of his regard
for young Franklin. This blast,
distributed yesterday, bore the
name of a campaign adviser,
James F. Rowe, jr., a former
White House aide, who called
Mr.. Roosevelt "a hatchet-man
for the Kennedy forces"
1t also said that young Mr..
Roosevelt was "a night-club-
bing college boy during the
great days of the New Deal,
and smouldered, THE people
of West Virginia can judge
Senator Humphrey either by
Juniors low-level tactics or by
the words of his mother, wife
of the President, Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt, who said of Senator
Humphrey that he has the
spark of greatness.
Mr.. Roosevelt has come out
of this campaign as man who
is as prickly an ally as he is an
enemy, Senator Kennedy is
sued sharp statement repudi-
ating his raising of the Hum
phrey war record last Friday.
Then he told a rally an hour
later that Mr.. Roosevelt had
made a contribution to the
issues.
Notes Kennedy Prediction
Senator Kennedy also took
note in a statement of a predic-
ton of his victory emanating
from Vice President Nixon's Of
flee. This intelligence was re-
ceived with great interest by
local pulse-takers, who are not
quite so sure.
Here, Senator Humphrey is
rated the favorite, if by a small
margin. An element is the re-
ligious question, which some
natives say is greatly exagger-
ated, but which is discussed
with unblushing prejudice by
others.
Senator Kennedy gravely as