Eisenhower Record Shows National
Popularity Seldom Ever Achieved
• By the Associated Press I
A cold appraisal of election
statistics Thursday leads to the
conclusion that President - elect
Dwight D. Eisenhower enjoys a
nation-wide popularity to which
few, if any, other men in history
could lay claim.
The political fires which blazed
across this nation for four long
months have been reduced to em
bers and it is easier to discard
personalities and examine statis
tics. Here are some things the
statistics show:
1. Eisenhower received more
votes than any presidential candi
date in history — millions more
than any other. Too, the total vote
was the greatest ever recorded.
2. His immense vote-appeal
swept into office with him a ma
jority of Republican candidates
for the Senate, the House of Rep
resentatives and for governors of
the several states.
3. His electoral vote total was
the second highest ever piled up
by a Republican — just a shade
under the total accumulated by
Herbert Hoover in 1923 when re
ligious prejudice against his oppo
nent, Alfred E. Smith, figured
prominently in the returns.
4. Eisenhower shattered the
once ‘Solid South,” winning three
of the most staunchly Democratic
states in the country and appar
ently adding four of the almost
always Democratic border states.
5. He punctured the Democratic
strongholds o'f Massachusetts and
Rhode Island where Irish-Catho
lic citizens have voted in blocs
for the Democrats for a quarter
of a century.
High Electoral Count
In the Electoral College, where
presidents actually are chosen,
Eisenhower won 442 votes against
89 for Stevenson.
Hoover received 444 electoral
votes to 87 for Smith in 1928,
Only one other Republican—War
ren Harding—got more than 400
electoral votes. That was in 1920
when Harding won over James
Cox, 404-127.
Virginia, Florida and Texas
went Republican. In addition to
Missouri and Tennessee, the bor
der states that went for Ike were
Maryland and Oklahoma.
Ahead of His Parly
Eisenhower ran far, far ahead
of his party, sweeping Republi
cans into office with him, in
many cases over strong Demo
cratic opposition.
In Wyoming, for instance, Sen.
Joseph O’Mahoney, a highly- |
ranked Democrat, lost to Gov.
Frank Barrett when Eisenhower
took the state, ending a Demo
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cratic grip on its voters. The
sarpe thing happened in Arizona,
where Sen. Ernest McFarland,
Democratic majority leader, lost
to Barry Goldwater, a political
novice.
Slim Edge in Congress
Whether Eisenhower will retain
| his great popularity through the
next four years remains to be
seen. His majorities in both of the
Houses of Congress are very tiny
indeed—48 to *7 in the Senate
and 220-214 in the House.
Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon
holds the key to whether the Re
publicans will have a working
majority in the organization of
the Senate. He was elected Re
publican but bolted the party to
suppon't Stevenson.
If he lines up with the.Demo
crats, the alignment will be 48-48
with Vice President Richard Nix
on having the opportunity to re
solve the tie in favor of the Re
publicans.
Before the voting, there were
25 Republican governors and 23
Democrats. Now there are .X
McCarthy Wins Wisconsin
But Trails Eisenhower
In Republican Count
MILWAUKEE, Wis., (JP)—Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy, one of the
stormiest issues on the national
political scene, won his second
term handily Tuesday but he
trailed President-elect Eisenhow
er and the entire state ticket in
Wisconsin.
The Republican senator’s Com
munist - in - government charges
were endorsed by 844,304 voters
in returns from 3,137 of Wiscon
sin’s 3,225 precincts.
His'Democratic opponent, Thos.
E. Fairchild, former state attorney
general and U.S. attorney, drew
702,992 ballots.
McCarthy carried 64 of the
state’s 71 counties in piling up
his 141,312 majority.
Eisenhower’s margin in Wiscon
sin Tuesday was more than double
McCarthy’s. Returns from 3,182
precincts gave him 958,173 votes
to 609,637 for Gov. Adlai Steven
son.
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rain and fog increasing Saturday.
Gentle easterly winds. Low tem
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Anna Roosevelt Boettiger
To Marry L. A. Doctor
NEW YORK, (/P)—Anna Roose
velt Boettiger, only daughter of
the late President Roosevelt, will
be married next Tuesday to Dr.
James A. Halsted of Los Angeles.
The marriage will take place at
Halsted’s ranch in the Malibu
Mountains outside Los Angeles,
her mother, Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt announced. She and
other members of the Roosevelt
family will attend the ceremony.
It will be the third marriage
for Mrs. Boettiger, 46. She mar
ried Curtis B. Dali in 1926 and
was divorced from him in 1934.
In 1935 she married Joen Boet
tiger, a newspaper man, and was
divorced from him in 1949. Boet
tiger committed suicide in 1950
by leaping out of a New York
hotel window.
Mrs. Boettiger has three chil
dren, Eleanor, Curtis and John
and three grandchildren. Dr. Hal
sted who was divorced from his
wife last year, has four children.
Ethiopians Drink Gasoline
ADDIS ABABA, Ethopia, (VP>—
Ethiopians drink gasoline to' the
point that the Ministry of Public
Health is really alarmed.
“Gasoline is poison and inflam
mable and should never be drunk
in place of medicine,” the minis
try declared. Tire warning brand
ed those who “persuade others to
drink gasoline and those who al
low themselves to be so per
suaded” as criminals.
The desire for gasoline as a po
tion is due to the widespread Ethi
opean custom of eating raw meat.
This, in turn, has caused the peo
ple to be widely affected with
parasitic stomach worms.
The Health Ministry recom
mends a substitute made from
berries for gasoline addicts.
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! REP. F. D. ROOSEVELT JR.
WINS REELECTION IN N. Y.
NEW YORK, UP)—Rep. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt Jr., son of the
late president, won reelection to
Congress Tuesday as the nominee
of the Democratic and liberal par
ties.
Roosevelt defeated Clarence C.
Van Bell. Republican, 81,288 to
40,856, in Manhattan’s 20th Con
gressional district.
Roosevelt received 65,520 of his
votes on the Democratic line of
the voting machines and 15,768
on the Liberal Party lines.
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| Stevenson Aides Ready
I To Draft Him Again
For 1956 Presidential Race
By Don Whitehead
SPRINGFIELD, III., (/P)_Gov.
Adlai E. Stevenson’s presidential
headquarters were being disman- ,
tied Thursday but his top lieuten
ants already were talking of an
other draft-Stevenson movement
for 1956.
Out of the wreckage of the
Democratic defeat has grown a
strong feeling here that Steven
son—as titular head of the Demo
cratic Party—will be the top chal
lenger against the Republicans in
another four years.
The Illinois governor remained
silent on his future plans so far
as the party leadership was con
cerned. But those around him did
not consider his defeat Tuesday
by Eisenhower as the finish of
his political career.
Stevenson was expected to
make clear within the next few
weeks, after a vacation, what his
personal plans will be.
CHAPMAN TO PRACTICE LAW
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Secre
tary of the Interior Chapman said
Friday he plans to open law
offices here and in Denver after
he leaves the cabinet in January.
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