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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday november 6, 1958demo sweep tightens grip on Congress continued from i dec 1 clinched 02 Somite seats a gain of 13 in the now Congress to open in january. This a 12 More than the majority needed for control. The republicans now have 34  figures leave out of account the two senators Alaska will elect nov. 25.the Senate lineup is the most predominantly democratic since the party elected go senators in 1940. That was the year Franklind. Roosevelt won his third term. Slate by Santoin Ohio the democrats outdid their own Rosie St pro election claims by defeating son. John , ions n gop Stalwart. In Wyoming the defeat of re publican son. Frank a. Barrett in u Down-to-1ho-Wiro finish gave the democrats their g2d seat. Demo crat Cole w. Moo. 4.1-Yonr-old Dean of history at the University of Wyoming Sunoo of out Victory by n margin of about 1.000  Republican senators who went Down to defeat included George w. Malone of Nevada Arthur v. Wat Kins of Utah and Edward .1. Thy of Minnesota. But Republican sen. Barry Gold water of Arl Ona crossed up demo cratic Hopes with a re election Vic tory Over Cov. Ernest w. Mcfarland former Senate democratic Leader trying for a  win in pc non. Republicans also sent reps. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and Ken Neth b. Keating of new York tothe Senate to replace retiring gop members whose seats had been in doubt jubilant democrats said the ii new Senate margin was so big that it virtually assured them control of that body for four years no matter which party wins the presidency in 1960.1000 races the democrats will have 21senate seats at stake in 19go, of against 11 for the republicans by 10 of the democratic posts Are tithe South and Throe Are. In Border Stales which normally go . John f. Kennedy d mass and Stuart Symington d to both piled up tremendous votes for easy wins in their re election contests. And in now Jer sey former rep. Harrison a. Withams a protege of gov Robert Meynor captured a Republican seat handily in what had been tabbed As a touch and go race. Moyner like Kennedy and Symington figures frequently in walkabout the National democratic ticket two years  addition to the Williams Triumph in new Jersey these were the states where democrats Cap tured seats now held by the gop Connecticut former rep. Thomas j. Dodd piled up a big margin Over sen. William a. Pur Tell seeking a second  Vance Hartke mayor of Evansville rolled to an easy Winover gov. Harold w. Hundley for the Post left by refer Long sen. Wil Liam Jenner Rind. Michigan lieutenant  a. Hart unseated Republican sen. Charles e. Potter in n Battle f world War ii  Howard Cannon Las vegas City attorney ousted . Malone a Nova two term Veteran. Utah Frank e. Moss emerged victorious in a three Way race with incumbent sen. Arthur  former gov. J. Bracken Lee running As an Independent. West Virginia West Virginia full six year orm rep. Robert c. Byrd won easily Over sen. Chapman Rover comb. Jennings Randolph got annually big margin Over John d. Hobill cell jr., appointed to the Serrate when the late sen. Matthew Neoly died Early this year. California rep. Clair Engle de rated Republican gov. Goodwin j. Knight for the Senate seat vacate Day Republican loader William f.  rep. Eugene j. My Jarthy turned Back the re election bid of son. Edward j. Thye. Ohio former congressman Stephen m. Young scored a sur prise Victory Over the Veteran sen. John w. Bricker. In addition gov. Edmund , of Maine unseated sen. Frederick g. Payne a Maine inthe september voting in that state. In House elections the democrats scored Sharp gains but not enough to prevent possible control by a Republican Southern demo cratic coalition. / All across the country they swept out incumbent republicans. But their gains did not approach the75 gop representatives ousted in Harry s. Truman s 1948 presiden tial Victory and fell far Short of the Republican upset which accompanied Franklin d. Roosevelt s first election in 1932.the democrats swept out All six Republican representatives in Connecticut tossed out three in Mary land and elected the first Democrat to the House from Vermont in More than 100 years. And they sent a Democrat to re place a Republican in the House from president Eisenhower s Home District of Gettysburg a. With returns still straggling in it was just a question of How big the democratic majority would be. Here s How the score stands democrats elected 281 republicans elected 150 democrats Lead ing three republicans leading one democratic gains 46 Republican gains  House elected tuesday takes office next january along with one representative to be chosen in Alaska nov. 25.two years ago democrats elected 235 and republicans 200 to the present , while exceeding the Hopes of Many democratic leaders tues Day s Victory left enough republicans in the House to team up with Southern democrats for numerical control if the two groups Brown whips Knowland in Calif. Continued from Page 1 instead of Knight for the . Sen ate a Job Knight never really wanted. Democrats made a Strong Chal Lenge to pick up three or More Republican held congressional seats. A gain of three would re verse control of the 30-Man House delegation from 17-13 Republican to 16-14 democratic. The right to Wark initiative seeking to outlaw the Union shop lost by a substantial margin. A proposal to tax parochial school was rejected by nearly 2 to 1. The one sided outcome of the governor s race splintered know land s presidential chances at least in 1960, and ended the gop s Golden Era a California period that produced such big names As chief Justice Earl Warren vice presi Dent Richard m. Nixon and know land himself. Latest count from 14,216 of 26,896 precincts demo factors Brown 1,092,662, Knowland 673.737.in the Senate contest results from 14,216 precincts showed Engle 961,706, Knight 688,047. Two factors probably helped put Over Engle an eight term Congress Man who was t too Well know before the Campaign outside his sprawling second District in North Ern California. One was the democratic party line vote harnessing the democrats 1,199,000 advantage in registration. The other was Knight s political prancing As he sought to California democrats sent Edmund g. Fat Brown right to the statehouse and rep. Clair Engle to the Capitol As a senator in the election. Brown Defeated sen. William f. Knowland for governor while Engle beat gov. Goodwin Knight in the democratic landslide. Hold his former democratic sup port. Democrats appeared Well to the Way to control of both houses of the legislature for the first Tim since 1889. A Democrat Superior court judge Stanley Mosk of los Angeles Defeated Nixon s close Friend rep. Patrick j. Hillings of Arcadia for attorney . James Roosevelt rolled to a write in segregationist upsets 8-term vet Hays in Arkansas Little Rock Ark.  Hays dark has con ceded the fifth District election tour. Dale Alford a Little Rock physician who is a Strong advocate from press dispatches new for if ors listed governors elected Aln limn John Patterson d Arizona Pul Fin Iii in Areniuas Orval e. Tautu d cell Torpila Edmund 1 drown u Colorado Stephen l. It. No Nichol d connection Abraham a Imi Trutt d Georgia Ernest Vun Divot d Idaho Robert e Myllo r Lowi Honchel c. Loveless d Kansas George Docking d from press dispatches tuesday included Maryland j. Mutaru twos d mat Bali u setts Foster fill cold d Michigan g my Tenn Williams d Minnesota of Villa i ii Ciuman d Nebraska Victor e. Anderson r Nevada Himi i Sawyer id new Hampshire Wesley Powell r new Mexico John Burroughs d new York Nelson a. Kui i Toller r Ohio my Chanel v. Disallow d Oregon Mark hat Flold r Oklahoma j. Howard Edmondson d Pennsylvania David l. Lawrence d Rhode Island Christopher Del gusto r South Carolina Ernest f Hull Nat d South Dakota Ralph herself d Tennessee Buford Ellington d Texas Price Dame id Vermont Robert t. Stafford r Wisconsin Gaylord a. Nelson d Wyoming Joseph j. Hockey 0 of segregation. Alford Riding a groundswell of sentiment against integration unseated Hays an eight term Veteran of the House As an Independent write in candidate. Alford an Eye specialist and segregationist member of the Little Rock school Board accused Hays of being a moderate on the ques Tion of integration and Promise to fight the racial Battle for the District in Congress. The 42-year-old Alford a native of South Arkansas had never sought office except for his school Board Post. Extracurricular travel Bedford mass. Up the Henderson Brodie family does its travelling in a converted school  Home away from Home is equipped with twin Beds stove electric refrigerator and a dining area. Convincing Victory in his bid for third term in Congress. The son of the late president Franklin d. Roosevelt piled up a 2-1 majority Over Republican Cris pus Wright. Elected to the House by districts were i Clement w. Miller d. 2harold t. Johnson d3john e. Moss or. D4 William s. Mailliard r5john f. Shelley d8george p. Miller d9j. Arthur younger Rii John j. Mcfall d. 12 a f. Sask d. 13charles m. Teague r. 14harlan Hagon d16 Donald l. Jack son r17cecil r. King d18craig Hosmer r19chet Hollfield d20 h. Allen Smith r22joe Holt r. 23 Clyde Doyle d26james Roosevelt d28james b. Utt r29d. 8. Saund d30 Bob Wilson r. 15thgordon l. Mcdonough r24glenard p. Lips come r. 10charles s. Gubser r 27 Harry r. Sheppard d21mrs. Rudd Brown d25 Prescott 0. Lieberg r7jeffery co clan d. Can get together As they have soften in the past. There will be in the neighbor Hood of 100 conservative Southern democrats in the new House an enough conservative republicans to provide the 219 votes for a majority. In the governorship races democrats displaying amazing strengthen traditional Republican Strong holds ousted six gop governors a they captured definite control of 31 of the nation s 48 statehouse. But in scattered reversals of their massive nationwide True the democrats lost the big one new York and surrendered their grip on three other governorships. Democrats however took theother prize California to Register a tentative net gain of two Over their pre election total of 29 governors counting holdovers. For the republicans it was a net loss of two from their previous total of 19.with four races still incomplete democrats led in three and republicans in  the new York and California contests attracted mos National attention democrats staged some of their More spectacular upsets  smashed through to Victory in the once mighty Republican strongholds of Wisconsin and South Dakota recaptured governorships in Maryland and Nevada and ousted top incumbent in  their parti republicans rammed through mild upsets i Oregon and Arizona and coasted to a expected Victory in tiny Rhode Island where the gop challenger Christ Ebher Del Sesto whipped his old foe of two years ago demo cratic gov. Dennis j. Roberts. Del Sesto was the apparent Victor in1956 but lost out in a bitter court contest Over disputed Absentee bal lots. In Ohio the Ohio race also was a re match of two old foes. But this time Democrat Michael v. Disalle former mayor of Toledo and korean War Federal Price Stabilizer easily outdistanced gop incumbent c. William o  Michigan Democrat g. Men Nen Williams won handily Over re publican Paul d. Bagwell for an unprecedented sixth term As governor. Other democratic incumbents encountered Little or no difficulty in re election bids in Colorado Connecticut Massachusetts Minnesota and Texas. Democrats also threatened in Idaho new Hamp Shire and Vermont but were de  the same time Kansas gov. George Docking spoiled gop come Back Hopes by becoming the first Democrat in his state s history to win a second term. It was a similar Story in Iowa another former Republican Strong hold where gov. Herschel c. Love less easily won re election. In Maryland where a demo cratic Victory had been widely forecast democratic state con troller j. Millard Tawes swamped gop rep. James p. Devereux world War ii Marine hero of Wake Island for the governorship. Rundown on from press dispatches senator s elected tuesday included Arizona Barry Golt water r California Clair Anglo 0 Connecticut Thomas j. Dodd d Delaware John j. Williams r Florida spots arc l. Holland d Indiana Vanco Hartko d Maryland j. Glenn Boll r Massachusetts John f Kennedy d Michigan Philip a. Hart d Minnesota Eugene Mccarthy d Mississippi John Tennu d Missouri Stuart Symington d Montana Mike Mansfield d Nebraska roman l. Hruska r Nevada Howard Cannon d new Jersey Harrison a. Williams d new Mexico Dennis Chavez d new York Kenneth b. Keating r North Carolina b. Everett Jordan d North Dakota William Langer r Ohio Stephen m. Young d Pennsylvania Hugh Scott r Rhode Island John 0. Pastore d Tennessee Albert Gore d Texas Ralph w. Yarborough d Utah Frank e. Moss 0 Vermont Winston l. Prouty r Virginia Harry flood Byrd d Washington Henry m. Jackson d West Virginia. Robert c. Byrd d Jennings Randolph d Wisconsin William Proxmire d Wyoming Gale w. Megee d  
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