Ohio

...Saxbe, O'Neill and others have the "young man with a future" stamp, and some Republicans wish Bender were out of the way...

...Political observers here sum up the situation this way: Eisenhower will carry the state, but not sensationally: Lausche can count on enough of his Republican friends to get past Render, and DiSalle cannot overtake O'N'eill by November 6...

...O'Neill, 40, has the advantage of having been either a legislator or Attorney General since he was in college at Marietta...

...O'Neill has been happily thrusting at the heavy-footed Lausche dragon, and DiSalle can only say he'll breathe some fire into the dragon's nostrils...

...His performance at the Democratic Convention, when he refused to release the Ohio delegation until Stevenson's victory was certain, did not endear him to the Democrats, either...

...Democratic Governor Frank J. Lausche and Republican Senator George H. Bender, enjoys the whole-hearted support of his own party...

...With money in the bank from land in the soil bank, the farmer can turn his efforts to raising as much on part of his farm as he did on his whole farm, and on Ohio's rich land he'll no doubt succeed...

...He has been running every minute...

...Recognizing his problem, he has revived the party organization, gotten a real State Chairman in Bill Coleman, a small-town lawyer from Marysville, and stumped the state hard...

...OHIO Eisenhower and Lausche are out in front By Read Kingsbury Columbus "Dispatch" Columbus As Ohio's campaign moves into its final phase, the following political paradoxes stand out: 1. Neither of the candidates for the U.S...

...But it is misleading and wrong to predict the outcome of Congressional elections in Ohio on the basis of what the national and state tickets might do...

...5. The Ohio CIO is behind DiSalle but not Lausche...

...Bender has been a Congressman-at-large...

...Lausche's appointee, for the last two years of Robert A. Taft's term...

...Senate...

...He has also avoided labor support, stood firm against new taxes, and provided only occasional leadership in meeting the challenges of the time...

...Nevertheless, the Republicans apparently realize that they are in a real contest...

...The soil bank, which has as stern and complicated a set of rules as anything yet devised for the farmer, has also had a fairly good reception here...

...But a sizable number of the younger Republicans are unhappy with the spellbinding orator from Cleveland, who had a tough tussle in the 1954 primary with the former Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, William Saxbe...

...As Attorney General, he has not made anyone very mad by his opinions and has made himself very useful to such people as county sheriffs and prosecutors...

...They have been ignored throughout five terms and party organization was very weak...

...When Benson told farmers that the Eisenhower Administration had "reversed the drift" toward "tightly-regulated agriculture, dominated and controlled by Government," he was talking language the Ohio farmer understands...

...If Stevenson hopes for a switch in the farm vote to carry the state, therefore, he's trying to milk the wrong end of the cow...

...The Republicans have 17 Representatives in Congress from Ohio and the Democrats six...

...As for the Buckeye State's tight and confusing Senatorial race, here is the key: Bender is riding Eisenhower's coattails across partv lines, and Lausche has been elected Governor five times while spurning his party organization and appealing to Republicans...

...Among the state's recent visitors have been Eisenhower, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson and Postmaster General Arthur E. Summer-field...

...4. The Ohio AFL is backing Republicans Bender and O'Neill, Democrats Adlai E. Stevenson and Estes Kefauver...

...The Democrats tried to get out a half-million new voters, and they claim to have succeeded...

...His real hopes lie with newly-registered voters...

...At this writing, the final registration figures are not available...

...2. Both Lausche and Bender expect to receive sizable support from otherwise faithful supporters of the opposing party...

...These are good friends to have this fall...

...He may also be helped this time by the fact that he has some labor support...

...Since these are substantial industrial centers, they might be right...

...Stevenson and Kefauver have been in the state, too...

...No group was happier when Lausche decided to run for the Senate than the county Democratic chairmen...

...The question now being asked is whether Lausche will have the standing and influence in Washington party circles that will permit him to be the kind of leader Ohioans would like to have in the Senate...

...But DiSalle is coming through to the voters, so far, as something less than fiery...

...DiSalle, 48, may have been the darling of Washington while he was OPS chief, but that doesn't mean votes in Ohio, and Toledo is not a good springboard for state office-seekers...

...The Democrats think they'll grab two more districts this fall, around Canton and Dayton...

...In the race for Governor, the AFL, reportedly bowing to pressure from the Teamsters and with dissent from Toledo leaders, has swung behind Republican Billy O'Neill, explaining that DiSalle hadn't come around to talk things over...

...Whatever appeal Eisenhower has to some Democrats is the appeal Bender hopes to have, for he makes much of his consistent support of the "Eisenhower program" and the Republicans know they must have his vote in the Senate...

...This was no oversight on the part of the former Toledo Mayor and Office of Price Stabilization chief...

...His margin seems likely to be less in November, but Democrats who honestly think Ste venson can overhaul him are probably being deluded by their party's reawakened virility here...

...they may have real meaning to last-minute dopesters...

...This, however, is part of Lausche's appeal...

...The CIO has refrained from naming a Senate choice, but the AFL (this is an indication of how far the two union groups are from unity in the state) finds Bender's voting record satisfactory...

...3. Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Michael V. DiSalle is probably better known outside the state but less well known in the state than his Republican opponent, Attorney General C. William O'Neill...

...He subsequently received the CIO endorsement...

...Farm wives, loo, still seem to be impressed with Eisenhower's "sincerity" and may have a softening influence on what little farm opposition Ike does have to contend with...

...Lausche has hinted more than once that he just might vote with the Republicans in organizing the Senate, which is a sample of his successful angling for GOP votes...

...which helped when he went against Senator Thomas Burke...

...Thus far, the candidates have not found much to say against each other...

...Most Ohio farms produce a variety of crops and raise a variety of livestock, and farmers like to shift their plans with the market prospects...

...President Eisenhower carried the Buckeye State by about half a million votes in 1952...