National Reports: The Election Rocky Mountain
FLEMING, ROSCOE
ROCKY MOUNTAIN Democrats to gain By Roscoe Fleming DENVER IN THE VAST Rocky Mountain area, the November election is not expected to change the present Congressional division between the parties....
...Utah: Democrats Walter K. Granger and Reva Beck Bosone, who lost their House seats to Republicans in the 1952 Ike sweep, have been nominated in their respective districts and will give the incumbents a brisk fight...
...Wyoming: The veteran Joseph C. O'Mahoney, progressive Democrat, is opposed for the Senate by William Henry Harrison, now Wyoming's sole Congressman and a descendant of the U.S...
...The Democrats may pick up one House seat besides retaining the two (out of Colorado's four) which they now hold...
...There is a general revulsion in rural sections against just about everything in the Eisenhower Administration, particularly the policies of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson...
...O'Mahoney was narrowly defeated in 1952, after 18 years in the Senate, by the colorless Frank Barrett...
...Montana: The 78-year-old Democratic Senator, James E. Murray, is running against Republican Wesley S. D'Ewart, veteran Republican Congressman...
...Although not very well known outside of Colorado before being selected to serve on the Watkins Committee, he has such a hold on the state that probably no one could beat him...
...its power policies, with special emphasis on problems of REA co-ops and the attempt to abandon most of the previous administration's public-power program...
...Incumbent Senator Henry C. Dworshak, a right-wing Republican and supporter of Senator McCarthy, is being opposed by former Senator Glen Taylor, who was Henry Wallace's running-mate on the Progressive-party ticket in 1948...
...Throughout most of this mountain-and-plain area, the principal issues will be the drought and the adequacy or inadequacy of Federal relief measures...
...Both Democratic Congressmen are expected to be returned...
...Certainly his present opponent,Donald G. Brotzman, a personable 32-year-old State Senator, does not stand a chance...
...Idaho: This race is between political extremes...
...the Administration's farm policies...
...New Mexico: Voters here have a choice between popular Senator Clinton C. Anderson and a two-term Republican Governor, Edwin C. Mechem...
...President of that name...
...The latter is favored and may carry in a Democratic Congressman to replace Harrison...
...All this has resulted in a definite weakening of the Administration in regional favor...
...Johnson is expected to carry with him most of the Democratic ticket, which is strong in its own right...
...There is no Senatorial contest...
...The drought has badly hurt both farmers and ranchers in this district...
...Here are the prospects: Colorado: The extremely popular Democratic Senator Edwin Carl Johnson, who is 70 years of age, is running for Governor, a post he left 18 years ago to go to Washington...
...This race developed when Democratic Senator Lester C. Hunt killed himself this summer because, according to his friends...
...Murray has the edge...
...and the accompanying abandonment of much of the Federal resource-development program...
...McCarthyite Senators threatened to expose a scandal in his family if he ran again...
...Anderson is favored...
...This would be in southeastern Colorado, where Alva Adams, heir to a great name in Colorado Democratic politics, is running against Republican J. Edgar Chenoweth, a member of the House Rules Committee...
...He may have regretted his decision when the formidable O'Mahoney announced his candidacy...
...If there is an edge, it goes to the Democrats, particularly in the House races...
...It would seem impossible for Taylor to stand a chance in conservative Idaho, but reports indicate that he does...
...John A. Carroll, two-term House veteran who lost out when he tried for the Senate against Eugene D. Millikin in 1950?¬is the Democratic nominee for Senator against Lieutenant Governor Gordon Allott and should win...
...Harrison had shrunk from a Senate contest with Hunt, but became very bold after the latter committed suicide...
Vol. 37 • October 1954 • No. 43
