ELECTIONS: Winners & Losers

In Ohio, Democrats last week nominated the Mayor of Cleveland, and Republicans the Mayor of Cincinnati, to succeed John Bricker as Governor. Cleveland’s able Frank Lausche (rhymes with howshay), his party’s hottest vote getter in a decade (TIME, Nov. 15), got 30,000 more votes than his five opponents combined. Democrats jubilantly figured he might not only win the Governorship but also lure Republican Ohio into the Term IV column in November.

On the Republican side, Cincinnati’s natty James Garfield Stewart, State Boss Ed Schorr’s candidate, barely beat out two rivals, both last-named Herbert (TIME, March 13). One of the Herberts (Attorney General Thomas J.), was Senator Harold Burton’s choice to derail the Schorr machine; he finished only 2,005 votes behind Stewart, and talked of a recount.

In West Virginia, bumptious Democrat Rush Holt, onetime “Boy Senator,” and pious, poker-playing Republican R. J. Funkhouser, millionaire manufacturer of “America’s No. i Heel” (TIME, May 8), both lost to less publicized candidates for the gubernatorial nominations.

In Alaska, New Dealers hailed a straw in the wind. Chunky, young E. L. (“Bob”) Bartlett ran as an all-out New Dealer for Tony Dimond’s voteless seat as delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives. He won the Democratic nomination (tantamount to election) by a landslide against one mid-road and one anti-New Deal opponent.