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Lt. Gov. Fred Hall yesterday led a clean GOP sweep in one of Kansas' hottest campaigns in recent years.
Despite an evident split in the state's Republican party and a national Democratic trend, Kansas voters elected a Republican governor and gave the GOP the only Congressional seat the Democrats held in this traditional Republican stronghold.
BY DOT TAYLOR AND LETTY LEMON
Hall Sweeps Kansas To Key GOP Triumph
Sen. Andrew Schoeppel, Republican incumbent, won a second six-year Senate term over Democrat George McGill, the man he defeated in 1948. Sen. Schoeppel, key man in the Eisenhower administration's fight for flexible farm price supports, seemed likely to approximate his 1943 victory margin of $8,000 votes.
Republican incumbents won reelection in the second, third, and 4th Congressional districts. They are Errett P. Scriviner, Myron V. George; and Ed H. Rees, defeating Democrats Newell A. George, William W. Monpypeny and Robert M. Green.
Miller won the 1st district seat in first Democratic victory in the district in state history. Republicans had labeled the 13-county district the one congressional seat they wanted to recapture from the Democrats more than any other in the nation.
State Rep. William H. Avery, 43-year-old farmer, recaptured for the Republicans the northeast Kansas 1st district congressional seat the party lost to the Democrats for the first time two years ago. Rep. Avery defeated Howard S. Miller, 75-year-old Morrill farmer.
Dean of the Kansas Congressional delegation Clifford R. Hope won a 15th term by overwhelming 27-year-old Robert L. Bock, Macksville Democrat. Rep. Hope is chairman of the House Agricultural committee.
But the lead seesawed in the northwest Kansas 6th district between Republican Rep. Wint Smith and Elmo J. Mahoney, Democrat. At 1:23 Rep. Smith led by a not too comfortable margin of approximately 1,000 votes.
Republican candidates swept the statehouse offices.
Attorney General Harold R. Fatter won an unprecedented third term in a race which held statewide attention following charges hurled by his Democratic opponent, Russ B. Anderson, McPherson city attorney. Mr. Anderson challenged the "fitness" of his Republican opponent and Fatzer in turn charged Mr. Anderson with indulging in smear politics and said the Democratic candidate wat attempting to win votes by character assassination.
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Hull, a Dodge City railroad engineer's son, took an early lead over Democrat George Docking, Lawrence banker. Mr. Docking conceded the election at 12:55 a.m. today.
Clair Robb, Wichita district judge, Supreme Court races and the other led Lawrence J. Wetzel, Wichita attorney, for the Supreme Court seat Justice Hugo T. Wedell will relinquish in January. Justice Jay Parker, seeking his fourth six-year term, was ahead of Democrat Joe H. Swinehart, Kansas City attorney.
Republicans forged ahead in two constitutional state offices.
Lt. Gov. Hall, at 38, caps a four-year rise to prominence in Kansas politics to become one of the Sunflower state's vountest governors.
In the governor's race, Lt. Gov.
State Auditor George Robb, whose 19-year tenure is the longest in any elective state official, led Duane A. Hickox, Emporia. Perd Voiland Jr., seemed assured elec-
Election Kansan Is Only Issue Today
This issue of the Daily Kansan will be the only issue to be printed today.
In order to cover all possible election news this issue went to press at 5 a.m. today.
GOVERNOR-ELECT FRED HALL
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Cast your ballot, freshmen! Exercise your right to vote—these were the words of Bob Pope, ASC elections chairman, as the polls opened this morning.
Freshmen Told To Vote Today
Pogo candidates for the house of representatives are William Keeler and Larry Underwood, college; Patricia Wentworth, Barbara Meinke, Penelope Ensminger, college, and Carolyn Cochran, fine arts.
Pogo candidates for ASC senate are Sheila Nation, fine arts, and Robert Hartley, college. AGI candidates are Michael College, college, and John Harrison, engineering.
Treasurer—Ray Wyatt, fine arts,
Phil Williams and Marilyn Nelson,
college.
Voting booths are located in the rotunda of Strong hall, Lindley, Marvin, and Fraser halls, and the Student Union. ID cards must be presented in order to vote. The candidates:
Vice president—James Schultz and Maxwell Woodburn, college.
Secretary—Lee Woodard, college, and Sherlie Steffens, fine arts.
AGI candidates for the house are Lawrence Thomas, college; John Casson, engineering; Donna Daise, and Christa Schmidt, college, and Jane Hewitt, fine arts.
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President—Edward Kohler, engineering; George Swank, architecture, and Ralph Varnum, college.
It will be increasingly cloudy to today, with showers developing in the east and rain or snow in the northwest tonight. Temperatures will be warmer with a high of 45 to 50. Thursday will be partly cloudy and much colder, with scattered snow flurries expected in the northeast.
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Colorado 8
Delaware Senate 10
Docking 4
Governors 8
Illinois Senate 5
Iowa Senate 10
Kentucky Senate 4
Local vote 4
Massachusetts Senate 5
Michigan governor 9
Minnesota 9
New Jersey Senate 5
New Mexico governor 9
New York 4
Ohio Senate 9
S. Carolina Senate 5
Texas 10
Wyoming Senate 10
Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Democratic candidate for attorney general in New York, was trailing this morning after piling up an early lead over Republican Jacob K. Javits.
Roosevelt Loses Early Lead
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GOP Losing House; Senate Still in Doubt
BY STAN HAMILTON
Executive Editor
Democrats early this morning appeared to be rolling toward a substantial majority in the House of Representatives, but the final Senate lineup still was anybody's guess. Democrats were leading in a majority of the 33 gubernatorial contests.
The Democrats, needing to win from nine to 10 key Senate races to capture a majority in the 84th Congress, were safely ahead in seven by 4 a.m. Three were safely in the GOP column and seven were hanging in the balance.
In the air tight Senate tussle, Republicans were leading in 15 states. Democrats had won or were leading in 23. Counting those not up for re-election, Democrats held 44 seats, Republicans 42. Independent Wayne Morse of Oregon said earlier that he would vote with the Democrats to organize the new Senate.
Should the Democrats win their four probables and the Republicans their five the GOP would trail 47 to 48.
In the House, the Democrats threatened to make it a runaway. They already had triumphed or were leading in 239 contests (218 constitutes a majority), the Republicans in 193.
The Senate control rests mainly on the tight Ohio race, in which GOP Rep. George H. Bender and Sen. Thomas A. Burke changed leads with almost every report. The latest tabulation had Rep. Bender leading by about 11,000 after some 70 per cent of the returns were in.
The Colorado race, too, probably will take most of today or more to decide. Republican Gordon Allott held a very slim margin over John Carroll. Scattered returns from Montana, Nevada, and Wyoming gave no indication of who the senators would be. The Massachusetts race is cloudy.
Definitely returned to the Senate in key contests were J. Allen Frear Jr., Delaware Democrat; Paul Douglas, Illinois Democrat, and Clinton P. Anderson, New Mexico Democrat. Apparently re-elected was Homer Ferguson, Michigan Republican.
Thrown out of office by voters were Clifford P. Case, New Jersey Republican, defeated by Charles Howell, and John Sherman Cooper, Kentucky Republican.
Many Surprises Include In Supposedly Normal Vote
BY COURT ERNST
Editorial Editor
Tuesday's off-year elections seem to be bringing a few surprises. At the latest count early this morning the Republicans definitely retained or had won 43 seats and were leading in six other races. Democrats retained or had won 45 seats and were leading in but two other contests.
Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall was quoted as saying the results so far were "a complete reversal of every off-year election in our history—and of everything the Democrats claimed. The Democratic national chairman merely said it was still too early to know the results for sure.
Democrats had definitely gained control of the House by a substantial majority and had captured several key governorships from the GOP. But, contrary to general predictions, Republicans appeared to be well on their way in their fight to retain control of the Senate.
If the above-mentioned Republican leads in the Senate hold up the GOP will find itself in control of 49 Senate seats, just enough for control without having to rely on the tie-breaking vote of Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
The Senate race as of now must surely come as a big disappointment to the Democrats, who were most confident of capturing control of the upper house of Congress.
The election issues were cloudy and vague this year. For the first time since younger voters could remember, a major war was not a primary issue. As it turned out, unemployment was the issue both parties seemed to settle on for their hardest concentration.
One interpretation of the way things stand now in the Senate race is that the Eisenhower administration is not getting the slap from American voters that many Democrats expected it to get. Evidently the situation of Sen. McCarthy had not disgusted as many voters as was thought.
It can surely be said that the Senate outcome is a more accurate barometer of public feeling toward the administration than gubernatorial races. And in this light it appears that most American voters still are more satisfied with the Eisenhower administration and program than was realized by most pollsters and Democratic leaders.