Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-08
ELECTIONS
ELECTIONS
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than slick hucksters. trying in
q short campaign to make the
voters forget a long record of
blind opposition to progressive
legislation in the State legis-
latures and the Congress in
Washington. to win the vic
tories they are SO desperately |
hopeful of achieving in 1852"
Representative William E.
Miller of New York, the Re-
publican national chairman,
countered with a statement that
admitted disappointment" over
the New Jersey defeat, but
claimed that results in other
areas clearly show a tide is
running in our favor"
Mr.. Miller cited the string
Of local G. o. P. victories and
said: "As 1861 ends, there is
a far greater number of Re-
publicans holding office on the
local level throughout the coun-
try than there was at the be-
ginning Of the year. These
combined successes will spark
our determined drive to meet /
our national detectives next
year" (
r. Damaging to Liberals
The upset in New Jersey {
achieved largely through the
same kind of big-city margins !
the Democrats rolled up for q
President Kennedy last year
was particularly damaging to
the cause of Republican lib
erals who had hoped Mr..
Mitchell might demonstrate a
pattern for Republican victory .
in urban areas.
His defeat seemed certain to !
strengthen the arguments of
Republicans such as Senator
Goldwater. Republican of Ari- :
IONA, who contend that the
G. o. P.'s future lies in militant
conservatism, rather than the
liberalism espoused by Mr.. q
Mitchell and his chief political s
sponsor. Senator Clifford P.
Case of New Jersey. i
Mr.. Mitchell had received I
campaign help from New York c
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller,
who is considered a likely OPP !
por1ent of Senator Goldwater !
for the 1864 Republican presi-
Dental nomination.
Goldwater Strengthened J
The Senator's hand was =.
strengthened yesterday by the =
Republican sweep Of contests .
for mayor and three council ;
seats in Tucson, a city in his 9
home State that had been DEM :
ocratic since the mid-1950's. =
Gov. Rockefeller, meanwhile,
not only saw a potential con- 1
vention ally go down to defeat
in New Jersey but had to share r
in the political wake for his ;
hand picked candidate for :
Mayor of New York, State At
torney General Louis j. Lef-
kowitZ.
Mr.. Lefkowitz had been Z
tabled as a likely loser ever a
since Mayor Wagner routed his v
intra-party Democratic foes in n
the September primary. The !
Republican contender did sue
coed. however, in cutting the r
mayors margin from over 900,- a
900 votes in 1857 to under 400 n
900 votes yesterday. N
Rockefeller Sees Gain y !.
Gov. Rockefeller claimed the s.
results showed Republicans r,
have revitalized the two-party
system" in New York City but n
Mr.. Bailey said the Wagner D
victory was a rebuff to Rock h
efeller's efforts 10 use the New q
York mayoralty campaign to
advance his own personal ma
tienal ambitions"
Gov. Rockefeller regained a Il
bit of his prestige in the up Il
state New York voting. He lie
campaigned heavily in both W
Buffalo and Syracuse. and in
both cities Republican candi- II
dates for mayor won out over Ct
divided Democratic opposition. II
On the other hand, Demo- al
Gratis won control Of the Roch- Il
ester city council and elected j
their first official in Nassau al
County in 40 years, as part of
q general pattern of switches st
that saw ten cities Dust Demo- c
cratic regimes and eight others W
turn out incumbent Repubi- II
cans. Al
p. Pennsylvania Victory &c,
Republicans won their most al
significant victories yesterday R
In Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Ct
In the former, Henry K.
OBrien, a Republican, defeat lie
ed Democrat Anne X. Alpern in II
Statewide voting for a vacancy
on the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court. G. o. P. mayoral can
didates defeated incumbent
Democratic regimes in 10 cities, /.
including Scranton and Erie.
The Pennsylvania voting was
marked by a breakdown in the
performance on the Philadel- f,
phia Democratic organization. e
one Of the most effective in n
the country for the past dec n
ade. The city gave Miss Alpern n
4 margin of only 10000 votes \
far from the 331 900 plurality a
it turned out for President
Kennedy last November and h,
far below the l75,000-vote g;
adpp that had heep r,raJictad :.