Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 19, DeMotte, Jasper County, 8 April 1949 — Republicans Cheered, See 1950 Victory [ARTICLE]

Republicans Cheered, See 1950 Victory

GOP Believes Michigan Spring Election Results Are Prophetic Washington, April 6. Republicans insisted today the votes that bloomed for their ticket in Michigan’s spring election are the first signs of a midwest G.O.P. harvest in 1950. But Democrats contended that the sweep which gave the Republicans all of the states offices not appointed by a Democratic governor has nothing to do with the case elsewhere. Senator Taft of Ohio, head of the Senate G.O.P. Policy committee, told a reporter the Michigan results confirm what he has thought all along. U. S. Republican—Taft “This country has been Republican all the time if we just get out the votes,” he declared. Senator Myers of Pennsylvania, the assistant Democratic leader said he sees nothing significant in the fact that a state which went for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey—although it elected Democratic Guv. G. Mennen Williams is putting Republicans in other offices. “I don’t know, but I suspect that local issues may have had something to do with the out-

come,” Myers said. Both major parties have been looking to the midwest as the battleground in the 1950 congressional elections. Michigan, for instance, has three Republican congressmen who were elected by less than 66 per cant of the vote in their districts in last November’s election. In fact, one of them, Rep. William W. Blackney won by only 49.6 per cent of the ballots cast in a race with more than two entries. Hot Senate races are in prospect in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, lowa,

Wisconsin and Ohio. What could be an opening gnu for the G.O.P. battle to win over farm support in the midwest- was fired yesterday in the Senate. It was an unsuccessful attempt by Senator Jenner (R-Ind.) to force the European recovery chiefs to buy only American farm products when these crops are in surplus supply or are selling below government price supporters. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Vander Ploeg visited in Chicago last Sunday. *l*fl