Evening star., 1962-11-04
BY ROBERT HEALY
Special to The Star

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BOSTON, Nov. 3.-A peddler
with leather lungs and a push
cart loaded with melons
shouted, Get 'em while they
last. They're all Endorsed by
Ted Kennedy"
Edward M. Kennedy, young
est brother of the President
and candidate for the United
States Senate from MaSsachu-
settS, was pushing his way
through the crowd that flocked
around him in Boston's market
district near Faneuil Hall.
Down the street, Mr.. Kennedy
walked into a meat market.
The proprietor rushed to the
doorway and barked:
"Step inside and meet Mr..
Kennedy. We also have roast
beef"
Across town at a transit
terminal, George Cabot Lodge,
son of the former United States
Ambassador to the United Ma
tionS and Mr.. Kennedy's Re-
publican opponent for the Sen
ate seat, was surrounded by a
small crowd in front of his
sound truck. He was setting
forth his position on medical
care for the aged to a man who
had asked him why he differed
with the Presidents position.
Campaign in Nutshell
That's the difference in the
Kennedy and Lodge campaigns.
The crowds work for Ted.
George has to work for the
crowds.
If George Lodge beats Ted |
Kennedy next Tuesday, it will
be one of the biggest political
upsets in the States recent
history. A survey of IA Massa-
chusetts communities last week
by a team Of reporters for the
Boston Globe showed that Mr..
Kennedy was favored by 81 per
cent of the voters, 35 per cent
we're for Lodge and 8 per cent
were undecided.
The survey also indicated
that Stuart Hughes, the Har-
ward College professor, who is
running as an independent, will
receive 2 per cent of the vote.
Mr.. Hughes vote is perhaps
proportionately smaller in the
survey than it will be in the
election. He has considerable
strength in the silk stocking
districts Of Boston's Back Bay
and in the Cambridge area,
where the Harvard professors
still haven't mellowed their
savage anti-Kennedy position.
Mr.. Hughes could walk off
with 5 to 8 per cent of the
ballots. But the question re-
mains. from which candidate
will he take votes?
One Massachusetts Institute
of Technology professor, who
had supported Attorney Gen
eral Edward ]. Mccormack, jr.,
in the primary fight against
Mr.. Kennedy. said he would
cast his vote for Mr.. Lodge If
Mr.. Lodge had a chance. But
because he did not think Mr..
Lodge did, he would cast a
protest vote for Mr.. Hughes.
Mr.. Hughes will take away
from Mr.. Kennedy some liberal
Democratic votes. But not
many. These have never been
in Ted's column.
Primary Hurts Heal
The broken bones of the
Democratic primary between
Mr.. Mccormack and Mr.. Ken
nedy apparently have been
mended with Kennedy medi-
cine. When House Speaker
John Mccormack returned from
Washington after the end of
the congressional session, he
was named the campaign man.
ager for Ted. Since that time,
Speaker Mccormack has been
on the stump for Mr.. Kennedy.
He has described him as a
brilliant young man running
on his own. Even Edward Nc
Cormack has recovered suf-
ficiently from the September
bout with Mr.. Kennedy to help
his rival.
The election mathematics go
something like this: Mr.. Ken
nedy beat Mr.. Mccormack by
a 2-to-1 margin in the Sep
tember primary. Together their
vote was about $4,000. If the
Mccormack detection from the
Democratic Party is 10 per
cent, and the surveys indicate
it will be lower than this, Mr.. |
Kennedy will still have about
$4,000 votes. There are about |
IL million independent voters
in the State, and Ted will. need
only about 20 per cent of these
to win.
Not all these independents
vote, however. The survey
showed that, among the indie
pendent voters, Mr.. Kennedy
captured SO per cent of the
vote; Mr.. Lodge, 81 per cent.
and 10 per cent were undecided