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T5-millimeter presidential election is concerned.

Republican spokesmen are opti-| . wi ~__ mistic, but privately they're not discounting the vote-getting ability of Franklin D. Roosevelt, They believe, however, that the chances of the} - state Being wen for the Republies can national ticket this year Gov. Bricker are much brighter than they were four or eight years ago. Governor John WA Bricker; proven vote-getter, is believad to add mnaterially to the G. O. P. prospects by being on the ticket as vice presi. dential nominee. , Furthetmore, the G. O. P. .organization will work harder for the national ticket with -My. Bricker on it than would have been the cdse had some one else been selected to run with Governor Dewey.

State Tickets Weak

Four years ago, for instance, o Wendell L. Willkie defeated Ohio's © Senator Taft for the G. O. P. presidential nomination, and it was an open secret that the G. O: P. machine here did no mare than it had to in the subsequent campaign. That won't happen this year, with Bricker on the ticket. | Both parties have the weakest | state tickets they have offered. the! Ohio voters in many years, Senator Taft, candidate for reelection, is the strongest G. O. P. nominee. Indications are now that he will be re-elected, possibly =}

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considerable margin. James Garfield Stewart, mayor of | Cincinnati, Republican nominee for| governor, was a minority choice in| the primary, and faces strong opposition from Frank J. Lausche, mayor of Cleveland, Democratic nominee and strongest candidate on| his party's state ticket. { If Mr. Stewart wins, he probably will carry with him 4ll the rest of | the G..O.P. ticket. Should Lausche | win, proBabilities are he'll carry into! office all the Democratic state can-| didates. Only Senator Taft would have much chance of surviving a Lausche sweep. |

G. 0. P, Has Advantage | The Republicans now: have 20] of the state's 23 congressmen. In-| dications are now that the Demo-| crats will win back several of the districts, probably five or more, but| that the Republicans will still elect a majority of the members of the house. Republicans have an important advantage in Ohio by reason of a far more effective and better or-| ginized state machine. Unless the! Democralic nationai comiuilee comes across handsomely, the Republicans will also be far better financed. The outcome of the contest between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Dewey for Ohio's 25 electoral votés probably will be decided in 16 of the! state's 88 counties. a { These are the big industrial coun-| ties, all but one of which have been! pro-Roosevelt in previous elections. |

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Four years ago President Roose-| velt earried only. 28 Ohio counties, and Mr. Willkie carried 60. But Mr. Roosevelt's 28 included 15 of the! industrial counties, where a ma jor- | ity of the state's votes are, with the result that he carried Ohio by 146,366 votes. The President apparently is much weaker in the rural counties of] Ohio than he was in 1940, and there! are indications he has lost strength! in the industrial counties. A switch of 75,000 votes in 1940 would have put Ohio into the Willkie column. This year the Ohio | presidential vote is expectéd to be | considerably less and it's likely! therefore, that a switch of 50,000] votes, perhaps less, will be enough this year to swing Ohio into the Republican column. Whether there] has been such a shift is a question none of the political experts can answer authoritatively as yet,

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GRID TEAM FORMED "70 AID PALS CLUB

Details“ of a semi-professional football team sponsored by the Fraternal Order of Police was announced yesterday by Chief Beeker at the safety board meeting. Proceeds from games played ‘by the ex-high school and college athletes, said the chief, “will be used to carry on Pals club activities . . . there are no paid promoters and no ticket selling by the police to the public in -any way. “Tickets will be dispensed only through the boxoffice at the gate.” He added that the 2100 members of Pals clubs located in various city parks will ‘be admitted free. The squad, to be coached by Frank (Pop) Hedden, Butler university grid mentor, will play three or four out-of-town gantes.. In an accounting of $4100 in proceeds from an F. O. P. sponsored _police ball staged at the Coliseum ‘this spring, Chief Beeker credited the police organization with buying all baseball equipment used in the Pals club program this summer. The. purchase of additional bas- |- ketball, football and boxing appar-| =": atus is yet to come, he added.