| Show i BALLOTS I T Trails rails Stassen r I In fl Amazing Voter Strength Combined UP ur and AP Latest returns In the Minnesota presidential primary were Republican ballot hallot of precincts give Stassen write ins Eisenhower Macs Mac Arthur 1510 Taft Warren Democrat ballot ballot of precincts g give gc c Humphrey write write-in Kefauver Truman Truma MINNEAPOLIS Minn 1 March 19 19 Gen WP-Gen UP Gen Dwight ight D. D Eisenhower Eisenhower Eisen Eisen- hower whose name was not on the ballot ballo swept to an amazing second-place second position Wednesday in the Minnesota presidential primary primary primary mary on a record wave of write-in write votes He ran close on the heels of of favorite son Harold E. E Stassen f for former o r m mer e r Minnesota governor whose name was on the Republican Republican I lican ballot I Returns from of precincts precincts pre pre- j i gave Stassen and I Eisenhower I The Minnesota secretary of states state's office said never in the I history of oC the state has there been anything like Tuesdays Tuesday's write write-in votes Comparative figures figures figures fig fig- ures were not available however Eisenhower at his Paris headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters declined comment but sources close to him described his vote coming on the heels of his victory in the New Hampshire Hampshire Hamp Hamp- shire primary was amazing and incredible Washington observers ers said he he heon on won a great moral victory Humphrey Humphre Wins ins In the primary Sen Hubert II H Humphrey D. D Minn I a stand stand-in for President Truman rolled to an easy vic via vie 1 I tory Stassen in Milwaukee l where I he is campaigning for the Wisconsin Wisconsin Wis Wis- I Iwas primary April 1 said he I was very pleased with the results re re- re suIts of the Minnesota primary Taft TaCt also campaigning in Wisconsin Wisconsin Wis Wis- cousin said at Menomonie i that I Ithe the results of the primary were a definite rebuff to Stassen I lIe He said he felt Celt that Eisenhower's large write-in write was the result of an out all campaign waged by bythe bythe bythe the generals general's backers He said his supporters made no effort for fora a large write No io Ike Comment Eisenhower himself jovially watched returns showing his amazing strength He made no I See Page PaJe 2 Column 1 I Minnesota Vote Vate Gives Ike 2nd Place i Continued from Page One comment but posed for or photographers raphers Never before had such a record of write-in write ballots swept the state Bad Dad weather Tuesday failed to stop the swell ground of Eisenhower support and political political political po po- po- po amateurs who staged his II campaign here called it a I cal miracle miracle miracle-a a tribute to a great greal t j American Paul G. G Hoffman returning from a Paris visit with the general general gen eral said at New York City that he believed Eisenhower now is thinking as a candidate He said that the Minnesota l returns should remove Eisenhower's last vestige of doubt about his I lanty larity in the role of or a candidate 1 Some of Tafts Taft's supporters J I waved aside the Minnesota i returns re re- re turns Rep George II Bender Demler I CR R R. Ohio said Eisenhower's I showing disturb me mc meat meat at all We didn't make any drive in Minnesota l he said In fact every effort was made not to have anything done there for Taft I However another Taft supporter supporter sup sup- I porter Sen Alexander Wiley CU R R. Wis called the results a phenomenal phenomenal phenomenal phe phe- showing for Eisen Eisen hower bower Sen Frank Carlson CR R. R Kan one of Eisenhower's campaign managers said the returns were 1 I evidence that the American people people people peo peo- want Eisenhower for the next president John Chappie Chapple national president president dent of the for Fighters Thur said mid that the results showed that MacArthur l can save America America America Amer Amer- ica from the pro Soviet pro Soviet forces j i behind Truman and Eisenhower Sen George D. D Aiken CR R R. R VI Vt said the tho write write-in vote vole indicated that Eisenhower will twill soon be home and Sen James H H. Duff CR R Pa said that the G GOP 0 P at al last has a candidate the people I I want In Washington a ranking Democrat Democrat Dem Dem- who declined use of oC his name chuckled It looks like Sen Taft is up the creek I I There wont won't be any chance of I duplicating the Minnesota write write- I II in results in the Wisconsin primary I I I mary April 1 Ga Gaige ge Robert director director director di di- I rector of that states state's department I of oC elections said write-in write votes are not provided for 01 under I II I statutes They will not be counted count count- cd ed or recognized and would invalidate in invalidate in in- validate any ballot so marked |
