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Landslide victory for Democrats
WASHINGTON (UPI) Democrats forged an
apparent . landslide victory yesterday and took
commanding charge of the Senate and House in
the first post-Watergate elections. President Ford
pledged to Work "wholeheartedly - with the
Congress which will act on his programs for the
next two years
In addition to strengthening their grip on the
Senate and Howse, the Democrats ousted
Republicans from statehouses around the nation
although the (101' averted a shutout in the 10 most
populous states by hanging onto the Michigan
go% ernorship
A a aye of discOntent over inflation, unem
plit meat and recession engulfed Republicans,
threatening Ford's legislative program and
:strengthening Democratic presidential prospects
in 1976
Ford. %%ho barnstormed around the country for
a month in a desperate effort to save Republican
candidates, called inflation the No. 1 issue in the
campaign
The mandate of the electorate places upon the
next Congress a full measure of responsibility for
resole ing this problem," Ford said from the
Elections '74
co \GitEss
4/1 the next Congress corn-
Cl'l at 12 . 46 a in. EST
sro,ite 51 necessary for control.
GOP Dems Others
5 19 0
5 5 0
28 38 0
38 62 0
42 58 0
1.1 e( ted
Le mtittu,
I I oltlo% et ti
\ e%% total
PI e sent
liepublicans won S Democratic seats,
leading for I Democratic seat. Demo
crats won 3 Republican seats, leading for
2 Republican seats.
218 necessary for control
GOP Dents Others
78 226 0
Elected
Ella Grasso
Election
Grasso becomes
Conn. governor
HARTFORD, Conn. (UPI)
Democratic Rep. Ella T. Grasso, a
household word in Connecticut politics
who has never lost an election in 22
ears, succeeded yesterday in her at
tempt to'become the nation's first
oman governor elected on her own
merits
Democratic Sen. Abraham A.
Ribleoff, 64, seeking a third term,
defeated commercial jet pilot Jar i nes H.
Brannen 111. •a freshman Republican
legislator and the first track in Con
necticut to win a major party en
dorsement for the U.S. Senate-.
Early returns confirmed predictions
that Grasso could handily. defeat
Republican Rep. Robert H. Steele and
R!bicoff would beat Brannen. .
Grasso. the 55-year-Old daughter of an
immigrant Italian baker, enjoyed a
commanding lead from the outset in her
quest to become the nation's first woman
elected governor in tier own right.
Three other women governors
followed in their husbands' footsteps.
She won a spring primary election over
Robert K. Killian for the right to carry
the party banner against Steele, 36, a
former - CIA agent and the youngest
major party candidate for governor in
state history.
One of 16 women in the House of
Representatives. Grasso. married and
the mother of two grown children,
campaigned mostly against rising
electric utility costs.
Her sex was not a major campaign
Issue
Mills Bumpers
win in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI)
Democratic Rep. Wilbur D. Mills,
chairman ot the House Ways and Means
Committee. yesterday won political
forgiveness for the Tidal Basin Incident
from Arkansas voters who returned him
to a 19th term in Congress.
But his opponent, Judy Petty, the first
Republican challenger Mills every had,
ran him the closest race of any opponent
he has faced in 36 years.
With 150 of 441 precincts reporting,
Mills had 36,631 or 54 per cent to 30,788 or
46 per cent for Petty, a 31-year-old
divorcee making her first political race.
White House where he had watched the returns.
"I will work with them wholeheartedly in this
urgent task which is certainly beyond par
tisanship."
Democrats picked off at least four Republican
Senate seats; four GOP governorships in
cluding New York denied the Democrats for 16
years and were rolling up large margins in The
House.
CBS projected a 50-seat gain by the Democrats
which would give them the biggest majority since
Franklin D. Roosevelt's heyday in the late 19305.
Among the victims of the Democratic tide were
two Republican senators, Marlow W. Cook of
Kentucky and Peter H. Dominick of Colorado.
Deriwrats alsci picked up the Florida seat of
retiring Sen. Edward J. Gurney.
Cook was thrashed by 49-year-old Gov. Wendell
Ford and Dominick lost to - Gary Hart, who
managed George S. McGovern's presidential
campaign in 1972.
Three other incumbent Republicans expected
to have trouble Milton Young of North Dakota,
Robert Dole of Kansas, and Henry Bellnaon of
Oklahoma were in desperate fights to avert
GOP Dems Others
67 64 0
145 290 0
187 248 0
Leading
Nev. total
Present
Republicans won 2 Democratic seats,
leading for 6 Democratic seats. Demo
crats won 26 Republican seats, leading
for 24 Republican seats.
" GOVERNOR
Standing of Governor races at 12:48 a.m
EST.
GOP Dems Others
3 23 0
2 6 1
6) 9 .0
11 38 1
18 32 0
Elected
Leading
Holdovers
New total
Present
John Glenn
results in other states
In other Arkansas races,-Gov. Dale L.
Bumpers, who defeated Democratic
Sen. J. William Fulbright in last sum
mer's primary and is now mentioned in
1976 presidential speculation, - routed
Republican John Harris Jones in their
Senate election.
In the governor's race, Democrat
David Pry" or also had an easy time
defeating Republican Ken Coon.
Petty declined to make Tidal Basin
incident a campaign issue.
Mills was found intoxicatedC . lct. 7 in
the company of a former strip tease
dancer by U.S. Park Police wl stopped
his speeding car in Washington near the
basin.
; Mills was forced to campaign' hard for
'the first time since his election to
Congress in 1938.
He apologized for the incident in his
first public appearance after returning
to Arkansas. "I apologize and I am more
embarrassed than I can say," he said
then. He refused to commen . t on it fur
ther during the campaign.
Carey victorious,
Javits holds seat
NEW YORK (UPI) —Democrat Hugh
L. Carey was elected governor of New
York yesterday, ending the 16-year
"Rockefeller Era"' in the statehouse and
carrying his runningmate, Mary Anne
Krupsak. into office with him as the
state's first woman lieutenant governor.
Republican Liberal Sen. Jacob K.
Javits won in his race against
Democratic former U.S, Attorney
General Ramsey Clark to return to the
Senate for his fourth term.
With about 10 , per cent of the state's
13,757 election districts reporting, Carey
held a commanding lead over incumbent
Gov. Malcolm Wilson, Former Gov.
Nelson A, Rockefeller's ham' licked
candidate, with the trend clearly
establishing the Brooklyn congressman
as the winner.
The victory puts a Democrat' in
Albany's executive mansion for the first
time since Rockefeller was erected GOP
governor in 1958.
Javits hid a 46 per cent to 39 per cent
edge over Clark, with 15 per cent going
to Mrs. Barbara Keating, the Con
servative Party nominee.
'Early results in other races:
—Democratic Comptroller Arthur
Levitt won his sixth term, taking an
insurmountable lead over Republican
At the same time, entrenched Senate
Democratic incumbents were rolling to easy
victories all across the country none even
threatened by an upset defeat. They were joined
by three Democratic newcomers, Rep. John C.
Culver of loi,va, Dale Bumpers of Arkansas and
John Glenn of Ohio.
A number Of popular Senate Republicans, most
of them from the moderate-liberal wing, survived
the Democratic onslaught. They included Sen.
Jacob Kf Javits of New York, who turned back the
strongest challenge of his career from former
Attorney General Ramsey Clark; Sen. Richard
Schweiker, of Pennsylvania who defeated Pitti
burgh Mayor peter Flaherty; and Charles
Mathias, Jr. of Maryland who turned back
Baltimore councilwoman Barbara Mikulski, and
Robert Packwood of Oregon who beat Betty
Roberts.
Rep. Louis Wyman managed to hold onto the
Republican seat in New Hampshire, left open by
the retirement of Sen Norris H. Cotton, but
Patrick Leahy was leading Republican Rep.
Richard Mallary for a vacant seat in Vermont.
Demos win 6 governors
WASHINGTON ( UPI) Democrats ended
Republican control of governorships inorNew York,
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Colorado, Oregon and
Tennessee yesterday but the ' GOP stopped a
Democratic sweep of the nation's 10 largest states by
re-electing Gov. William Milliken of Michigan.
The Democrats won the bulk of the 35 governorships
at stake, electing Rep. Hugh Carey over Nelson'
Rockefeller's hand picked successor in New York, and
in Connecticut Rep. Ella Grasso became the first
woman ever elected governor on her own.
By midnight, Democrats captured 23 governorships,
and led in three;_ other races. Republicans won only
three, re-electing Govs. Milliken, Meldrim Thomson
Jr., of New Hampshire and Robert Ray of lowa.
Republicans held narrow leads in Kansas and South
Carolina, but the results were too close to call.
If Democrats win as expected in Ohio and California,
they will go into the 1976 presidential race with solid
grassroots organizations in all of the big 10 states ex
cept Michigan.
Wilbur Mills
Stephen May, former maxor of
Rochester.
—Republican Attorney General Louis
J. Lefkowitz was trailing his Democratic
challenger, Bronx Borough President
Robert Abrams by about 5,000 votes.
Astronaut Glenn
wins Ohio seat
COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) Democrat
John Glenn, the first American astronaut
to orbit the earth, won landslide election
yesterday in Ohio's Senate race.
-Glenn, who failed in two previous at
tempts to win a Senate seat, swamped
Republican Mayor Ralph J. Perk of
Cleveland, defeating him in every county
as the returns rolled in.
Glenn even captured a commanding
margin in Perk's home county of
Cuyahoga, where Cleveland is located,
leading the mayor by more than 2-1:
• It appeared that Glenn's victory would
carry Democrats to a near-sweep in
statewide races.
Gov. John J. Gilligan, seeking a second
term, took ' the lead over former
Republican Gov. James A. Rhodes in one
of the closest races on the slate.
Brown predicted
victor in Calif.
LOS ANGELES (UPI) Democrat
Edmund Brown Jr. and Republican
Houston I. Flournoy jumped off to a nip
anck race yesterday as Californians
a - 6d to elect a successor to Gov. Ronald
-Reagan.
In light voting statewide, Flournoy
received 51-per cent of the votes-and
Brown 49 per cent with 3 per cent of the
precincts counted.
Half an hour after the polls closed, a
- pm television network estimate of key
sampled precincts indicated Brown as
the winner.
Casino gambling
defeated in NJ
TRENTON (UPI) A ballot proposal
to legalize casino gambling in New Jer
sey was defeated yesterday despite a
half million dollar promotional cam
paign by Atlantic City business interests
where the casings would be located.
With 63 per-cent of the state's 5,461
One of the strangest races of the night was in Maine,
where an independent, James Longley, held a narrow
lead over Republican. James Erwin and Democrat
George Mitchell.
In key gubernatorial races: .
New York Carey, a veteran Brooklyn
congressman who won a surprise victory in last fall's
Democratic primary, ousted Gov. Malcolm Wilson,
who succeeded Rockefeller last December after ser
ving 15 years as lieutenant governor.
Connecticut Grasso led her Republican House
colleague Robert Steele by more than 200,000 votes
with nearly all the ballots counted. Though three
women have been elected to succeed their husbands as
governor, she is the first to win the post on her own
merits.
Michigan Milliken, fighting unemployment in
Michigan and the effects of the Watergate scandal,
won a narrow re-election victory over challenger San-
der Levin
Massachusetts Gov. Francis Sargent, an apparent
Abraham Ribicoff
Dauphin, Lackawanna, Susquehanna,
districts reporting, there were 515,594 Carbon, Luzerne, Delaware and Phila
votes in favor of casinos with 887,269 op-
delphia.
posed.
Democrats won at least 46 of the 203
• The Atlantic City resort area gave the House seats, including seven held by
strongest support for the measure. It also s Republicans. •
drew support from urban Essex County The election kept alive a piece of
and shore areas around Atlantic City.
modern political history. In every guber-
The measure was opposed by religious natorial election year since at least 1906,
leaders, including the state's four the party which won the governor's race
bishops who represent 3.1 million Roman also captured the House.
Catholics„ a Democratic challenger Edward M.
Some of the strongest opposition to the Early upset GOP Sen. Robert D.
measure came from Bergen County, a Fleming, a legislator since 1939 who had
heavily populated northern suburb been rated a heavy favorite by insiders
where voters o from both
,parties, in the 40th district of
pposed the measure by a
Allegheny County.
3-1 margin.
Fleming, 71, spent 24 years in the
Las Vegas oddsmaker Jimmy "The Senate and was minority leader two
Greek" Snyder had reduced his odds years ago. Prior to the campaign, he was
from 20-1 to 2-1 for the measure passing a good friend of Early, a 39-year-old con
before voting began. servative Democrat.
Election workers attributed the heavy
interest generated by the casino issue to
public statements from figures as di
verse as Archbishop Peter L. Gerety of
Newark who opposed it to Playboy
publisher Hugh M. Hefner who
favored it.
Sandman among defe ated
f
4 Nixon defenders lose
WASHINGTON (UPI) Four of Richard M. Nixon's
staunchest defenders during the eight-inonth impeachment
proceedings— all Republicans were defeated in re-election
bids yesterday
Reps. Wiley Mayne of 4owa, David W. Dennis of Indiana and
Joseph Maraziti and Charles Sandman of New Jersey voted
against every one of the five articles proposed during the
House Judiciary Committee's final decision on the fate of
Nixon.
The four who had opposed Nixon from the beginning of the
proceedings _early this year won re-election easily or were
leading in early returns. All four losers were defeated by
Democrats they had beaten in earlier races.
Rep. Harold V. Froehlich, R-Wis. who voted for two articles
of impeachment, was trailing. Mayne had ,openly worried
about his chances for re-election against the strong bid of
BerkleY Bedell, whom he had beaten by only 9,000 votes in
1972.
Mayne apparently misjudged the anti-Nixon feeling in his
district. The four-term Republican said in a pre-election in
terview, "I find my constituents seem to be understanding of
the role I played in the impeachment hearings. They seem to
respect the reasons for my doing what I did."
Although BeAell, 53, a fishing tackle manufacturer, ignored
the impeachmlnt issue and concentrated his attack on the
GOP administration's inflation problems, Mayne's pro-Nixon
stance on national television was believed to have hurt him
badly.
Maraziti may have been hurt more by a growing scandal
involving a mysterious woman, real estate and weak Maraziti
Leahy would become the first Democratic
senator ever elected in Vermont.
McGovern, seeking a second term after his
disastrous defeat as a presidential candidate,
won relection by defeating former POW Leo K.
Thorsness in South Dakota.
Other Democrats winning re-election were
Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, James B. Allen
of Alabama, Herman E. Talmadge of Georgia,
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, Birch Bayh of In
diana, Russell B. Long of Louisiana, Daniel K.
Inouye of Hawaii, Thomas F. Eagleton of
Missouri, Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina,
Warren G. Magnuson of Washington and Gaylord
Nelson of Wisconsin.
Two more newcomers, in addition to Culver,
Glenn, and Hart, were Robert Morgan of North
Carolina and Richard Stone of Florida.
' Republican House losses were widespread,
including long-entrenched veterans and some of
Richard M. Nixon's strongest, supporters.
The heaviest GOP lows were in Indiana where
Republicans lost five ttnuse seats, -New Jersey
with four, Virginia and New York with two, and 11
other states with one each. Only two Democratic
Democrats` win big:
hold state Senate
take House control
PHILADELPHAI (AP) Democrats
strengthened their hold: on the state
Senate in yesterday's elections, Winning
four key seats to assure a majority of at
least 28-22.
They presently have a 27-23 margin
over Republicans. The new edge will be
the largest enjoyed by Democrats since
the 19305. .
Democrats also apparently took con
trol of both houses of the General As
sembly last night as well as the govern
or's office for the only second time since
1937. i
The key to the Democratic takeover of
the House, where Republicans held a 108-
95 edge, were a series of victories in for
merly Republican districts- comprising
In one of the state's most hotly con
tested races, Democrat Denny J. Bixler,
and Republican RobeDt. C. Jubelirer were
running even in the 30th district.
They were fighting for the seat being
vacated by Republican Whip, Sen.
Stanley Stroup, who is retiring. The
incumbents were ousted, one in Florida and one
in Louisiana.
Among those to fall were Rep. Earl Landgrebe
of Indiana, who refused to vote for the im
peachment report on Nixon; Reps. Charles
Sandman and Joseph Maraziti, WM of New
Jersey, who backed Nixon almost to the end;
Rep. Joel Broyhill of Virginia, one of the two
senior Republicans in the House from the South;
and Rep. William B. Widnall of New ,Jersey,
ranking Republican on the House Banking
Committee.
Rep. Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, chairman of the
House Ways and Means Committee, survived an
escapade with a stripper to win re-election.
Rep. Hugh Carey won the New York gover
norship by beating Gov. Malcolm Wilson;
Michael S. Dukakis ousted Republican Gov.
Francis Sargent in Massachusetts; Democrat
Ray Blanton defeated Lamar Alexander for the
Tennessee governorship held by the GOP; and
Ella Grasso bOame the first woman elected
governor on her own by beating Robert Steele in
Connecticut, another statehouse now held by the
Republicans.
victim of Boston's busing dispute,. lost to Democrat
Mike Dukakis, a former state legislator.
Colorado Democrat Richard Lamm, a state
legislator and law professor who led the battle to keep
the 1976 Winter Olympics out of the state defeated Gov.
John Vanderhoof.
Democrats were especially strong in the South. Gov.
George Wallace of Alabama won a landslide re
election, giving him the power base to launch an ex
pected 1976 presidential drive.
Another key figure in the Democrats' 1976 picture,
Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida, easily won re-election.
Elsewhere in the South, Democrats elected George
Busbee in Georgia, David Pryor in Arkansas, and for
mer Rep. Ray Blanton topped Lamar Alexander, a for
mer Nixon aide, for governor of Tennessee.
Big state Democratic governors who easily won re
election included Milton Shapp of Pennsylvania, Dolph
Briscoe of Texas, Marvin Mandell of Maryland and
Patrick Lucey of Wisconsin.
district includes Bedford, Blair, Hun
tingdon and parts of Somerset counties.
Incumbent Republican Robert A. Roy
ner, who : Was indicted on extortion
charges lad month, was unseated by H.
Craig Lewis in the 6th district, which in
cludes parts of Philadelphia and Bucks
County.
Lewis, a 30-year-old Feasterville at
torney, will become the Senate's
youngest member. He had been rated an
underdog prior to the indictment.
In a hotly contested race in Lehigh
County, Senate Majority Whip Henry C.
Messinger defeated Republican
challenger Charles D. Snelling for the
16th district seat.
Although Messinger, 59, had risen in
one term from obscurity to a position of
Senate leadership, Democrats were con
cerned about his chances.
In another key race, incumbent
Democrat Joseph S. Ammerman turned
back a strong challenge by J. Alvin
Hawbaker to keep his seat from the 34th
district in central Pennsylvania.
Ammerman, 50, is the caucus
secretary for Senate Democrats.
Hawbaker, a State College realtor,
waged an intensive campaign with am
ple financial backing from the GOP.
Other Senate elections appeared to be
going according to predictions, except in
the 26th district in Delaware County,
where John L. Sweeney was making a
surprisingly strong bid to defeat the
Republican favorite, F. Joseph Loery
Jr.
Sweeney and Loeper, both of Drexel
Hill, were fighting for the seat being
vacated by retiring Republican Sen
Clyde R. Dengler, 75.
Twenty-five of the Senate's 50 districts
were involved in yesterday's voting Of
the other 25 sitinators not up for election
this year, 13 are Republicans and 12 are
Democrats.
explanations, than he was by impeachment. Helen Mayner,
wife of a former governor who lost to Maraziti in a last-mintite
bid in 1972, kept impeachment in the background of her suc
cessful campaign.
Sandman stridently and sarcastically defended Nixon
during the televised impeachment debates. New Jersey
political experts believe, however, he may have be en hurt
more by a loser image resulting from his unsuccessful bid for
governor last year.
Replacing Sandman will be William J. Hughes, 41, an at
torney from Ocean City.
Dennis, a three-term conservative, was defeated by. Philip
R. Sharp, 32, a Ball State University political gpience
professor. Sharp came within 3,000 votes of beating Dennis in
1970, but lost decisively in 1972 when Dennis rode the landslide
victory of President Nixon.
Sharp centered much of his criticism of Dennis on his strong
and steady defense of Nixon throughout the eight-month
impeachment procedure.
Only after Nixon revealed a tape which eventually led to his
resignation did Dennis oppose the President.
"My area is a strong Nixon area, but I think they liked the
fact I was willing to follow evidence," Dennis said in a pre
election interview. "I think the position I took has been well
received in general."
But, he acknowledged, "I suppose having Nikon out of office
politically is probably a plus," underestimating the adverse
effect of his strident support of the President.