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‘l Feel Deeply the Responsibility’
Democrats Sweep County Offices
Victory Termed
59th YEAR—NUMBER 206
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily and Sunday
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1948
GOP Out
Greatest in Decade BULLETIN The Indiana election picture today was this: Out of 3789 of the 4058 precincts in the state, Dewey was leading President Truman 770,784 to 757.9535. Henry F. Schricker had been elected Governor over Republican Hobart Creighton. With. 3774 precincts reported, Schricker had received 827,044 voles to 694,482 by Creighton. All Democratic candidates for state offices had won over the Republican incumbents.
won over Republican incembents. Dewey carried Marion County by a whisker. Democrats were picking up five seats for Congress, making a total of seven to the RepubTicans’ four. These figures may be revised however in later re-
ALBEN W. BARKLEY
some districts.
The Winner—Mr. Truman
IF EVER a President deserved the congratulations and the hearty best wishes of all his fellow citizens, Harry S. Truman does today. His election is one of the greatest political surprises of all time. And he attained it almost single handed. Furthermore, he carried into office with him enough members of his party to insure Democratic control of both branches of Congress. That is fortunate for the country. When Mr. Truman's
new administration begins next January the Democrats will
have full authority to match their full ibility for the ey LolsemAn » Pane JUIN LX DSSS a RE TU Replicas Ue
py . The pollsters, the. professional political experts ahd | Three large counties, Marion, Reached People Gratitude to U. S.
most newspaper editors—including the editor of this news-| Vanderburgh and St. Joseph, sent Promises to Work
HARRY S. TRUMAN
|paper—achieved during the recent campaign what prob-| Mr. Schricker solid delegations
Here are some of the reasons |ably is a world record for being wrong about the trend of In the House of ‘Representatives,
Democratic Victory
Democrats in Marion County
turns to change the winners in
Democrats were swept to their
sees
Dewey Concedes Defeat; ruman Wins Congress
Schricker Wins As Voters Hurl Political Miracle by
President Pulls Off Back-to-Wall Stand
Takes Lead and Never Loses If; Wins 304 Electoral Votes to 189
isnt
Other Political News and Pictures, Pages 2, 8, 4, §, 6, 13. By LYLE C. WILSON, United Press Staff Correspondent Gov. Thomas E. Dewey conceded today that President [Truman had been elected in the closest presidential race in 132 years. It was one of the greatest upsets in American political history. 2 Mr. Truman had been given no chance in pre-election polls and forecasts. But he seized the lead with the first {returns last night and never lost it. He swept a Democratic Congress into office with him. Republicans have lost control of both the House and Senate. At the time Mr. Dewey conceded, he was trailing by 115 \electoral votes. Mr. Truman had won or was leading in 28 states with 304 electoral votes. Mr. Dewey had won or was |leading in 16 states with 189 electoral votes. : Gov. J. Strohm Thurmond, States Rights candidate, 'won 38 electoral votes. Henry A. Wallace none. Popular Vote The popular vote at 1 p. m., Indianapolis Time, stood: | TRUMAN .....ccivninenanin.s 20,559,397 | DEWEY ..cioe:00assvssncenas 19,023,981 WALLACE .....c..000000eee..0 956,360 THURMOND ..............0..0 807,085 Mr. Dewey, who had been mulling over cabinet selections and preparing to move to Washington in January, gave up shortly after 10 a. m., Indianapolis Time, today. . uu In a crowded suite at the Democrats Grab Roosevelt Hotel in New York | James Hagerty, Mr. Dewey's press secretary, called in re-
Reins of Congre porters and said:
| “The Governor has just sent | {the following telegram: ‘My heart- | Control of Senate, |iest congratulations on your elecHouse Assured tion and every good wish for a The D By Tailed Prats in C | successful administration. I urge e Democratic victory In Con-|.,; s mericans to unite behind you
gress mounted up as follows: | | SENATE [in support of every effort to keep
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: . for the surprisi rati -1 { 3 t w our nation strong and free and Big Upset in State |r lt. Trane: oo" For World Peace ian election. [HAEOWing out 17 RePUBNISAR 1:8 | Puiied Ropu. Doma. ol abiish Pence in’ the world.” N a 8» » . KE PL LL | y By NOBLE REED |. Labor was united. for the first! KANSAS CITY, Mo. Nov. 3 SELDOM has a candidate been so counted out of the|turns strengthened the prospect/Leading ......c...00s 1 3 GOP Gives Up Unofficial vote returns showed time in many years to oppose Re-| (UP) — President Truman today f h : . [that Mr, Schricker would have a Holdovers .......... 33 30 | When the news got around that today that all Democratic candi- Piblicans who fostered the Taft-/tolq the American people that he [aCe before the people voted. Seldom, if ever, has a Presi-|p.nocratic lower House though Total new Senate ... 42 54 Me. Truman led in Ohio by 16,000 dates were swept into Marion ap ey 2%. Sted oy felt very deeply the responsibility dent seeking to succeed himself started a race with the odds|his Senate will remain Repub- Present Senate ..... 51 45 (votes with only about 200 polling any farmers voted against which has fallen to my lot as a {lican. Necessary to control: 49, precincts still missing, the Repub-
County offices by majorities rang- Republicans because they Were.result of this election.” lagainst him apparently So hopeless.
i : | licans gave up. ing from 1700 to as much as- 9000 uncertain of Republican policy to-| After the uproar and the first
In a hotel room in Kansas City the bells on a United Press teletype clanged. It was a flash that said: “Dewey concedes,”
: ; | Democrats nad clinched six con-|. HOUSE J a a Many would-be leaders of the Democratic Party decided gressional seats in the 11-member| Reps. Dems. Other| in one of the biggest election up- po Price ni vd 8. A |great flush of victory immediate-| ph nihe ago that Mr. Truman couldn’t possibly be elected congressional delegation from the Elected ..... 148 246 1 sets in Indiana oh ne mocrats, UNBAPPYily after a United Press flash, 3 : .__ |state for a net gain of four.|Leading .... 23 17 The Democrats RE thay President Truss, found hearing those two magic words in 1948. They ganged up in an effort to prevent his NOMINa-| Democratic candidates were fight-| Total ” Boat rns he rt a “Dewey Concedes” was handed to tion by the Philadelphia convention. They gave him luke-|ing hard for two more in the| New House 171 263 1 A cheer boomed through the races here except the presidentia = Magni him, the President prepared a] t after h inated [fourth and sixth districts apd out- Present House 243 184 2 [11th floor of the hotel. Mr. balloting which gave Gov. Thomas Tiohan personality and assureipyer statement to the nation and;W3ITA Support.alier 1e.was nommnaleg, {comes were still in doubt. (6 vacancies) [Truman turned and embraced But he and his running mate, Sen. Barkley, put on an| Out With the Old | Necessary to control: 218. his brother, Vivian. The door
E. Dewey a majority of only 7 i -i 1 star ‘ “ "” | - about 3300 over President Tru: nin the state GOP and bitter| po on eh exhibition of gameness that entitles them to whole-hearted Seats already won by Demo.| (‘Elected figures above in- burst open and the well-wishers man. {because their presidential nomi-| © the puople of the fjation, he/ i i i icrats were in the first, third, fifth clude one Republican Senator and Twarmes aw a The most conservative pre-elec- | Tr oo ewey, wouldn't addressed this message: admiration. They fought, and they kept on fighting. And eights and 1ith districts. | three Republican Congressmen Democrats already had claimed tion forecasts had-estimated Mr. . 1." to Indiana for a ma jor | “I feel very deeply the respon- they won. Republican incumbents were up.|¢lected in Maine in September.) the victory. speech to help them out at home, “iPility Which has fallen to my " : € up-i ee Sen. J. Howard McGrath, Rhode i “{lot as a result of the election. By RAYMOND LAHR
Dewey would carry Marion Coun- 3 We supported Gov, Dewey, and for that we have no set in all but the first and 11th. | Island, Democratic national chair“I shall continue to serve the apologies. He seemed to us to offer the better hope of that United Pius Stal Corravjundant
’ 5 la telegrs s : v.| Republicans were torn by strife 3 elegrarn io Jue Opponent; Coy
rhe biggest surprise of al nl nine ters astounding action In| vag Fw Sak ormdins |man, walked into pary headquar. Marion County returns was the American. people to the. best of| ; : : : Ser. “ters at the Biltmore Hotel in New Sorping TLE mAjority : given i ups executive competence and wisdom which the country soiling job they started in 1947—out|trol of -both houses of Congress.|y . .. .- cis it was all over. He
| devoted to the cause of peace in| greatly needs in the conduct of its foreign and domestic ™'\! the old in with the new. | A tabulation, Ohio's 25 electoral votes had for Governor over Hobart Creigh- :
{ . A year ago they threw out showed the Democrats had elected (the world and the prosperity and affairs. |more than half of their city ad-/21 candidates in contests for the|Vr0ed the trick. happiness of our people here at :
ton, Republican. | “We have possession of suffi-
my ability. All my efforts will be Henry F. Schricker, Democrat, | United Press I | |
; 9 * 3 = 3 MN {ministrations without party fa- 32 Senate seats involved in yes-| ” Wrong Again home.” THE COUNTRY decided otherwise. Now we expect vor. lterday’s election. With 30 hold- |e, facts.” Mr. McGiSIh adfed No pre-election forecast had Outside = 3 heer . hoofel Yesterday they marched grim-lover Democrats in the Senate, | y esdent 2 .
given Mr, Schricker any chance Forecaster Echoes:
to pile up more than a 12,000 maJority in Marion County. | What Happened? All of Marion County's 17“Dem-| NEW ‘YORK, ‘Nov. 3 (UP)—
ocratic candidates for the Legisla- py, George H. Gallup, one of the ture were elected by majorities :
{poll takers who forecast the elec-|
{through the 11th floor corridor
{and into the presidential suite as matter how they voted yesterday; will join in cheerful, loyal cations, did it
this staff, newsmen and secret {service men -caught the words ithat signaled the end of the bit-
ter and uphill fight.
with confidence that the vast majority of Americans, no Truman and Sen. Alben Barkley
ly to the polls and, to all indi- they were assured of a majority; ove swept into a Democratic
again. They of the 96-member Senate. victory.” support of their chosen leader. {shrugged off the predictions, Democratic nominees also were py ... 5060 Mr. Truman's elecin- i |scratched across party lines to an!leading in three of the unsettled : ¥ There are those inthe world who hcped that this elec-/q tent never before seen in thisl Senate races. Victory in all of Ye WH ee rn a
(tion would divide America. They will find that it has united “straight ticket” state, and those would run their Senate, “yr oo spoke, was a ‘wash
- ranging from 3000 to 5000.
The clean-sweep Democratic victory in Marion County was a surprise even to Democratic leaders in view of the drastically reduced balloting volume during the last three hours yesterday because of rain. The total county vote was only 201,000, far short of the 220,000 mark that had been forecast early yesterday when extra
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Police Quiz Would-Be
Morphine Purchaser Police today were questioning a 25-year-old man arrested as he tried to buy morphine with what police pronounced “forged” prescriptions. e man was arrested in a drugstore in N. King Ave. last night. The proprietor called police, who had been looking for the man in connection with previous purchases. Local police said federal nareotic agents had been on the trail of the suspect and had been watching the same drugstore earlier yesterday. Officers found a pad of prescription blanks on the suspect.
Hurled From Car A woman was hurled from a speeding car at Kentucky Ave. and Drover St. about 1:20 p. m. Extent of injuries was not immediately determined. Police sent out an alarm for a man described only as being 50 to 60 years old. The woman could not immediately provide any identification of dar assailant.
| Gallup, director of the Ameri- President's hand. |
issued the following statement:
|derestimate Truman's strength?’ voting statistics when they are all javailable.
{tions to which we are seeking the
|few days of the campaign,
They Must Analyze in really caiching a “wKepticall I “3. Did the Wallace strength
Thank You, Boys [A ; | ‘ti i > merica. mopped up. tion of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Within a few minutes, the pres-| w ; : : . | With the exception of the cer-| said today it was “the kind of a idential secretary, Matthew J.| = We won't attempt just now to discuss the many im-|iain election of Democrat Goy-| close ‘election that happens once Connelly, threw open the pent- plications of Mr. Truman's Victory or the future of the ernor nominee Henry Schricker,| in a generation and is a night-|nouse door and a stream of well- | p epublican Party mare to poll-takers.” |wishers paraded in to shake the] ‘
\can Institute of Public Opinion, AS! the well-wishers paraded jt's not so bad. |past him, he repeated time an
d is 20 ain nn amin BY 8 { : a T= The first “in” to get the broom Everyone is asking ‘what hap- |282in: 'H id Chi u WwW : . pened? Why did all the polls un-|_ 1pank vou, boys, thank vou al ie a eruse from Ine Nuosier clectorate was
{for the wonderful job’ you have {President Truman. But the voters
H {done.” ge ® ° ®o = weren't one-tenth as enthusiastic The answer to this question will { ] + A 1 B ) likely be found in an analysis of | As the photographers snapped, 0 1] gains 1 S
about his Republican opponent ‘his ‘picture in a barrage of light3 8 By CHARLES T. LUCEY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer -
3 (Thomas 8, Dewey as they were ning, the lights in the room went expected to ‘be. lout. A bit excitedly, Mr. Tru- NEW YORK, Nov. 3--The bands may still play “Hail to the
Ins sli {man said, “Blew a fuse, blew a Chief” to a fighting little guy from Missouri who refused to quit Om Dre 2 2 Oy de ITE: of Hops to fuse.” when the whole world wrote him off as a goner—Harry 8S. Truman. dicted by many political analysts, Vie Staved- Hamar {| “Mr. Truman told his close] America told with votes how it loves an underdog as it paid three-fourths of the precincts in Eo ne Saved He Wi nome- | Fiend. as he shook hands, that: 8 politically almost incredible tribute to an ex-farmer who never the state showed Mr. Dewey lead5 x Which ot S y 2?) “I just want to deserve- the Seemed quite at home’ in his statesman’s clothes. ing the President by a shoestring nly 47,000, voters went to/honor.” 5 | His own Democratic Party or- ~— ~~ Sy mm re | SUID VOLES = the polls Tuesday. Another 47. Old Buddies There ganization was torn to shreds by|'0ld his audiences as he sought "LL 0 Givided on Mr 000.000 voters stayed home. Was, A number of those who had men who didn't want him -thelto force Mr. Dewey into discus-| gchricker. but went mostly that it the Republicans, .or the inde- waited for this moment were old Southern States’ Right Democrat- sions of specific issues, don't like he could. hope . b pendent voters who failed to show soldiers with him in Battery D,|ic, the Henry Wallace leftists and : ’ up at He Pol the undecided 120th Field Artillery, in World fora time the big city bosses on . i War I. Among them were Fed- Whom he had to depend for votes.| p , f : | ut Gov. ay'S e ourths of the returns by 130, eo late 2 Se Te ook lara) Judge Richard M. Duncan, | He was derided: ‘and almost 4, the day egg first speech votes, and still climbing. ji voters had ne u their Federal Judge Albert A. Ridge, Pushed aside at his partys con ist pes Moines on Sept. 20 was! ey Im IL Yu oD Sei Ted Marks and Jack Bullard. Ventlon. Republicans condemned i, guy a4 jittle as possible with|yet to come in was expected to ers Whe ere eeaded Charles G. Ross, White House Nim as inept and incompetent. Al-{n,,yimum eloquence and convic-{be largely Republican, other foters . \d ress secretary, said during the MOSt alone he was forced to Carry tion, ? {Democrats on the state ticket voted the Democratic ticket in! ti Athi te his fight to the nation. , earlier elections, many of them Sommation i inthe penthouse, Part of Loss ! Surg. Wisner votes for Truman during the last been: elected. ad! odds, plus the difficulty of Repub- would be folly to chance alienat- Times Index { |
As the crowd pushed into the lican-Candidate Thomas F. Dewey ing any group by «faking precise ——r-— confines of the penthouse, the . {positions on the major issues.|Amusements, 8 Movies ..... 8 t : ’ jnation’s fancy--these were fac-iThere wer. { : i A eT Bridge .....17 Obituaries .. 9 ns SAPAIEe retary 19 empt hen uy : Da a She surge of sentiment for governor Da te Eris esse 10 F.C. Othman 13 * i i 2 i { . 1 fi 63 i Cense ; sree | “4. How much help did the na- te pons é De moment -and| Failure of Gov. Dewey to weep” ght of it on aéveral occassions; Busiiess. E414 = Pattern 3 tional ticket get from local and they allowed him to enjoy it toito victory as had been forecast! (Cohtintied on Page 5—Col. 8) ¢ dd 15 Roark... 13] state candidcates? {the fullest. . by: aimost every poll and sooth uey on Page 5—Col. rossword .. uar | “All polls must analyze these A Secret Service man intro- sayer in the co w 2 LOCAL. TEMPERATURES | y untry as at-|
Today we're busy eating a large dish of crow. We find up to an astounding upset. . Dewey Support Wanes |
“Here are the pertinent ques-
to breast the ja champion who wins running Dewey tide by a few thousand away. votes. He was winning in three-
wren 13 Editorials .. 14 Side Glances. 14
' | {Forum ..... 14 Society ..... 16, problems and work toward their duced him to a radio newscaster. tributed in part, too, to his failure, 6 a. m...”56 10 &. m... 58 | og . i iSeerts - 18 15 solution to make certain that the He told the President he had met to take a clear-cut stand on the 7a m.. 56 11 a m.. 58 |Hollywod .. 8 Teen Probs..17 'same_ errors do not occur in fu- the newscastef§s mother in Phila- major issues of the day.’ 8 a.m... 57 12 (Noon) 59 |j1pgide Indpls. 13 Ears Wilson. 15
'ture election surveys.” |delphia. | Americans, Mr. Truman had! 9 & m... 57 1 p.m... 60 Mrs. Manners 12 Women's ...17| ’
total up to 54, with the GOP
fulso had commanding leads. |Second District in
holding 42 bucket filled with crushed ice and In the House races, 246 Demo- 36. bottles of victory champagne, ere elected. And 17. more A reporter rushed up and told Crats were €ecled, “Mr. McGrath that Gov. Dewey
lalways given an even chance or Democrats were leading while 148, © onceded. {better to win, the results added Republicans were elected and 23
were leading. ‘On that basis, the! whars Sues Hr MeSrath said.
indicated lineup of the new City whe X B 1c »n the ne b House would be 263 Democrats, ACrONS the ions Durning 171 Republicans and one Ameri-| ent had given up. A wipe can Labor Party member, A ma- snifle was on his face as people jority is 218. crowd i 0 | The Democrats went over the owed nts hotet mule
RD elves at 46. seats. when| He had reason to smile. He had : as “(pulled off the political miracle of Sen. Joseph H. Ball (R. Minn.) : .
3 the century. Sonceded Je had lost His ene Mr. Truman spent last night in for re-ejection. Fa’, playe {Excelsior Springs, Mo., close by (Continued on Page 5—Col. 5) Kansas City. At dawn today he — — oe A apparently sensed that he was
el 11 off . State GOP Losing facie of the century. 5 Congressmen | Charles G. Ross, his press sec-
[retary, said the President was By DAN KIDNEY |“certain some hours ago” that he Hoosier Republican Congress-
had been elected. men, who for the past two years!
Poorly Protected have been following sheeplike the Secret Service men were scat-
tered all over the Truman hotel
Despite the fact that the vote leadership ‘of Rep. Charles A.igyite. But for once in his career
Halleck, are not doing so today. as President, Mr. Truman was For the 80th Congress majority poorly protected. No Secret Servleader will again represent thelice man wanted to spoil his big Congress, moment ard ‘people pushed, while most of his colleagues have|iammed and crowded up at will lost their seats to the Democrats.|to shakeithe President's hand. Without the entire count taubu-| Mr. Truman insisted right up lated, present Republican Con-|to election day that the polis a gressmen who appear to have the forecasts were wrong. He been defeated are Reps. Robert A. said the pollsters would be Grant, South Bend; George W. red-faced after the election. He. Gillie, Ft. Wayne; Forest A. had something there. Harness, Kokomo; rald We nahers He besa moting Jie Landis, Linton, and Edward A. n Am Mitchell, Evansville, [the night in 1916 when Charles New Republican candidate who|Evans Hughes went to bed thinkfailed to win was George L. Den-|ing he had been elected President.
i is. 3 | He woke up next day to da indianapolis. Mis, Cee} [that Woodrow Wilson won (Continued on Page 3—Col. 3) California and the s