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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1956)
. : . ' t, V - r - .-. r - - --- - - . -" . , ; -, -- , - . . ..... ........ ,-: , -. - m , - , . - - ----- , r . ., . .. ... ... -, . - . .... .. . ... .,.-.r, - . -f. . , , . 1950 Election Ax Splits Many Trad itional American Political Blocs Down themiddle By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON. Nov. 10 Political saws involving the Solid South and the farm, labor, Negro and big cityvote came out of Tuesday's election battered and bent. By past standards, this election just didn't make sense. Things happened that looked limply im possible in the light of history. Even by 1956 measuring rod, some of the results were almost unbelievable, The country just doesn't go In for picking a president of one par ty without giving him a Senate or House usually both of the same party. It hadn't done that but once, back In 1848, until-last Tuesday. J Only at rare intervals do chunks J of the Solid South break away 1 from the Democrats when the g party nominates a Catholic for 1 4 president or takes too strong a 4 stand on civil rights and racial J 'j questions. Never in history had a j Republican taken a quartet of I Southern states twice In a row Until' 1956, that "is. 'And this time President Eisenhower, added an extra one by pocketing Louisiana J along with Florida, Texas, Vir- ginia and Tennessee. For years, the Democrats counted not only on. a Solid South r but also on most of the Negro, fa labor and big city vote. They con- t ceded the bulk of the farm vote J to the GOP. j mil looa wnai nappeneq uu- t year: ! Behind Ike ?' Many Negroes, .union members and city folk obviously marched j? to the polls behind the Kisenhow- j er banner. And Democrats who L had figured the pinch of high costs and low prices for crops would bring on a big-scale farmjf revolt against the tiepublicans found that nothing of the sort de- v'eloped. i Eisenhower carried in 1952 all . of the doien farm belt states j stretching westward from Ohio to Kansas, Nebraska anfflbe Dako-f tas, and this year he lost only & Missouri the one state outside $ the South to go for Adlai E. Ste - & enson. True, Eisenhower's margin f "in some of these states wasn't as hefty as it was four years ago But in others it was better in cluding Stevenson's home state of Illinois. And in Ohio, the presi dent's edge was the widest in his tory, s Peare Chances In the farm states as elsewhere, the crisis in the Middle East un-; questionably helped , Eisenhower Even before the crisis developed, ; farmers and their wives in signifi- j f cant numbers had been saying ; they' thought the Chances fori peace were better under the Re-1 publicans, and that the peace 4s sue weighed more heavily with hem than their own prosperity or lack of it, , Alsa in the farm belt and else-1 where, voters demonstrated they are an independent lot, voting fur whom they pleased resardles of party affiliations and splitting their, tickets all sorts of ways. fake Iowa, one of the stales where farm unrest has been ap parent for months. It went for Eisenhower again, re-elected a Republican senator but kicked out a Republican governor and House mpniher. Or mm e over into South Dakota. Eisenhower's popularity slumped there, but not enough to cost him the stale, lie gnt 57 per cent of the vote this year whereas , iTnittrrTFfl--m--W3t,er--crni in The stale elected a Demo- crat to Congress for the first time in 18 years and seemed in the fluctuatina returns for a while. to he toying with the idea of get- i ting rid of a Republican senator: and governor. Southwestern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin, once btiMing fairly strongly with anU " administration talk by farmers, went for Eisenhower again, but by smaller margins. Cities and in dustrial areas helped make up some of that gap. In St. Paul and Ramsey County", the President cut Stevenson's , iti?lTRinJ in-half -tn-time and "i Hennepin Minneapolis Coun ty he boosted hia own ginning f .figure substantially. Eisenhower also gained in Wisconsin indus-j trial areas, attested by the fact; that he became the first Repub-, lican nominee to turn the trick in , Milwaukee since Warren G. Har-1 ding in 1920. Union Members That points up another fact: i The AFL-CIO Executive Com-' mittee endorsed Stevenson fori president but Eisenhower carried all the states with heavy concen--trations of union members, includ-; ing such big " ones as New York, Pennsylvania, California and Michigan, West Virginia, ai stronghold of the independ- ent United Mine Workers,! switched from ,Stevenson to Ei- senhower. ' ! Union members evidently split, their tickets, too. Their votes were; credited with helping Democrats: win Senate victories In Pennsyl vania, Oregon Washington, and Haho. They gave a hand, too, to, Foster Furcolo, the Democrat, who was elected governor of Mas-, sachusetls, and to Democrat G. Mnnruin Williams In his victoH-I f '; I I m J ouS bid for an unprecedented fifth term as governor of Michigan. Williams ran far ahead of his 1952 pace, showing enough form to spark talk that he may try for the Senate In 1958 and perhaps the White House in I960. 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