National Reports: The Election Great Plains
JR, WILLIAM K. WYANT
GREAT PLAINS Farm revolt hurts GOP By William K. Wyant Jr. ST. LOUIS IN THE EXPIRING Eighty-third Congress, the five states of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas are represented by...
...Eva Bowring of Merriman and Sam W. Reynolds of Omaha, are appointees...
...Missouri: With the ratio now favoring the Democrats 7 to 4 in the House of Representatives, Missouri's Congressional races may give the Democrats another seat or two...
...Miller beat Republican Albert M. Cole in 1952 following a controversy over construction of the Tuttle Creek Dam...
...In one of its four districts, however, the Second (Omaha), the Democrats see a possibility of picking up the seat vacated by Roman L. Hruska...
...Nebraska is expected to return Republicans to Congress as usual...
...Iowa: The incumbent Senator, Democrat Guy M. Gillette, is being vigorously challenged by Representative Thomas E. Martin...
...Joseph) are being strongly contested...
...Kansas: In the Senate race, Republican incumbent Andrew F. Schoeppel, twice Governor of the state, has the edge over Democrat George McGill...
...Three elected Senators...
...he was the first Democrat ever to hold the seat...
...Republicans are trying hard to unseat Democratic Representative Morgan Moulder...
...Their 35 seats in the House of Representatives are divided 21 to 14 in favor of the Republicans...
...Here, as elsewhere, the Democrats are exploiting the unemployment issue and the dissatisfaction of farmers with the Administration farm program...
...Actually, only two of the Senate races and half a dozen of the 35 House elections appear to be close...
...Early this month, Adlai Stevenson, speaking at Wichita, called on Kansas voters to emulate those of Maine by voting the Democratic ticket...
...In Arkansas, where winning the Democratic primary is tantamount to election, Senator John L. McClellan is in safely, and so are the six Democratic Representatives...
...Kenneth S. Wherry, Dwight Griswold and Hugh Butler??have died since 1951...
...The state's eight House seats are expected to remain Republican...
...Gillette supported rigid farm-price supports, while Martin backed President Eisenhower...
...In strongly Republican Nebraska, it would be something of a miracle if the Democrats made any substantial intrusion...
...The Republican-held Fourth District (near Kansas City) and the Sixth (including St...
...Nebraska: This state's Senators, Mrs...
...In this election, there are technically five Senate seats at stake??one each in Arkansas, Kansas and Iowa, and two in Nebraska...
...Hruska, a Republican, will run for the remaining four years of Butler's term...
...LOUIS IN THE EXPIRING Eighty-third Congress, the five states of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas are represented by five Republican Senators and five Democratic ones...
...Summing up pre-election reports from the five states, it would not be too surprising if the Democrats increased their Congressional strength by one seat in the Senate and perhaps Four or five in the House...
...The Republicans, who now hold five of the state's six House seats, have high hopes of winning back the First District seat held by Democrat Haward S. Miller...
Vol. 37 • October 1954 • No. 43
