National Reports: The Election Ohio
KINGSBURY, READ
OHIO Excitement centers on Governorship By Read Kingsbury COLUMBUS MORE OF THE HEAT in the campaign here arises from the effort of State Auditor James A. Rhodes to defeat Democratic Governor...
...But the more important struggle nationally is between GOP Congressman George H. Bender and Democratic Senator Thomas A. Burke for the Senate seat of the late Robert A. Taft...
...While farm in-come has fallen, most Ohio farmers are not crying for help: if they liked Ike before...
...One shift may be in the Fifteenth District, a normally Republican southeastern Ohio area where Robert A. Secrest, the Democratic incumbent, was appointed by President Eisenhower to the Federal Trade Commission...
...An audit of the books of the Ohio Turnpike by Rhodes's examiners also revealed some questions of propriety...
...Lausche has done little overt campaigning, apparently relying on "non-political" speeches and an accumulation of good will on both sides of the political fence...
...After four terms, the bushy-haired Clevelander's administration shows some cracks...
...they still like Ike...
...Other incumbent Congressmen appear safe in traditionally Republican or Democratic districts...
...Ohio sent 16 Republicans, six Democrats and one independent to the House of Representatives in 1952...
...He is also pressing some of the charges made against Bender this spring by Republicans supporting William Saxbe for the Senatorial nomination...
...OHIO Excitement centers on Governorship By Read Kingsbury COLUMBUS MORE OF THE HEAT in the campaign here arises from the effort of State Auditor James A. Rhodes to defeat Democratic Governor Frank J. Lausche, out for a fifth two-year term...
...The party split is one of the big imponderables in the campaign...
...But Ohio has not elected a Democratic Senator in twenty years...
...They appear to want a freer market, fewer controls: many would just as soon have no price supports at all...
...Burke, the former Mayor of Cleveland, is ridiculing Bender for his bell-ringing performance in leading the Taft demonstration at the 1952 GOP convention...
...In the Gubernatorial campaign...
...his opponent is Thomas B. Talbot...
...Democrat James G. Polk, who won the southwest Ohio Sixth District by 300 votes in 1952, is fighting it out again with Leo Blackburn in a campaign that could go either way...
...Similarly, in the Sixteenth District, which includes Canton, the economic situation strengthens Democrat Thomas H. Nichols against Republican Congressman Frank T. Bow...
...He is campaigning vigorously, stressing his unwavering support for President Eisenhower during the last two years, when he represented the Twenty-third District in Cuyahoga County, near Cleveland...
...A Franklin County (Columbus) grand jury investigating the Slate Liquor Department recommended the firing of its director, but Lausche look no action...
...Republican John E. Henderson is now favored for the seat...
...A stabilizing influence here is the farm vote...
...If Ohio farmers are upset about the Eisenhower price-support program, they're upset in the wrong direction for the Democrats...
...Workers are idle, or are no longer receiving overtime, across the top of the state from Toledo through Lorain to Youngstown...
...Rhodes is criticizing Lausche for anything and everything...
...little change is expected...
...Bender, who served six terms as Congressman-at-Large, has been on the ballot one way or another every year since 1932...
...Another is the effect of unemployment in northern Ohio industrial towns...
...In the Third District (Dayton and Hamilton), economic discontent is making real trouble for Republican incumbent Paul F. Schenck...
...Rhodes is pressing the demand...
Vol. 37 • October 1954 • No. 43
