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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - November 5, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days by George e. Sokolsky Knish v. Pizza now that the election is Over let us think a Little about the immaturity of our candidates and the absurdities of the Campaign. In new York state for instance it has been a Battle Between Knish and pizza. Knish is a potato dumpling in the Center of which is often a Grieben which is a chunk of fat Fried Crisp. It is indigestible and Good Only for peasants who can work it off. A pizza pie is a sicilian Pancake of enormous dimensions covered with a gooey mass of tomatoes cheese anchovies and condiments. It has become As popular As a hamburger and is risked by those who possess gustatory might. It can be made More delicately which is not True of the Knish. The theory of the candidates undoubtedly was that when they went slumming among the voters they might just As Well go whole hog and show that they not Only can shake hands with their masters the voters kiss the faces of babies which is a dangerous thing to do in these Days of mononucleosis but also eat dishes to which they Are not accustomed. So one goes Down to the East Side to eat for the first time a hot pastrami Sandwich on sour Rye. With Dill pickles. Pastrami is usually flank Steak or some other Toug Hish meat smoked heavily flavor with garlic and covered with coarse ground Pepper. It is generally eaten hot although i prefer it cold some put Mustard on it. Which i think spoils the flavor. This desiccated meat always gives i a Novice indigestion unless he is running for Public office. As for the East Side of new York it has been there since Manhattan j Island was bought from the indians and once included very fashionable areas. Even George Washington j lived there now it us in most parts blighted although much is being done to improve it by new j housing. Any new yorker who admits that he has never been on its lower East Side until lie had to go canvassing for votes displays Lack of curiosity Lack of interest Lack of understanding of the enormous varieties of Peoples that compose the population of our largest City j and what does one really see of life when he goes campaigning with flocks of reporters Pho i tog Raphers and hangers on All watching to see whether the Deli a Cate great Man really eat amp a Knish Swallow a pickled red Pepper hold Down a hero Sandwich fill himself on a red hot spicy Knack a Wurst or Settle for a pizza pie or a Light spumoni0 what difference does it make what a candidate eats or is it to show How a democratic a he is. He whose ancestors filled their stomachs on a saturday night with baked bean.-, and who ate Salt pork for breakfast i Fried new England style and covered with a White gravy0 Why should anyone in a classless society feel a a democratic do they want us to look to the records of their fathers or grandfathers to show that we ainu to got no aristocrats around Here ii is not Only candidates. It is ail the new Rich thrown up by the inflation who Are the products of free advertising charitably provided by newspaper columnists to restaurants and night clubs. They i too Are a democratic Quot and go slum Ming among their former neighbors As though they were descended from Charlemagne and William the conqueror to say nothing of j Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan and they too Hope that the lower classes will vote for this or that candidate because his is so Well the election is Over. The results ate in and everywhere one of the a democratic Quot personalities j is in. His wife need not smile All Day Long anymore. She can go about her business w without being a democratic the candidates can ignore the voters for a while enjoying the kind of society they1 really like and avoiding Klishes and pizzas and chitterling and Prijoles unless they really like such stuff which most of us hardly do although i used to be a votary of the improper and the immoderate in food until it got me Down. The Campaign is Over and every Man can be himself again. He can look Back at the Nightmare and realize that it will come again Only too soon ii he wants to remain a Public personality. I copyright 1958, Kuig features i Syndicate i�?~1 1 vol. 80, no. 261 it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening november 5, 1958 by Carrier 3� per week by mail 17.50 per year democrats win Many victories Iowa democrats take 3 More congressional seats Des Moines. Up a Iowa democrats took three congressional seats away from the republicans in tuesday s election by upsetting two Veteran lawmakers and moving in on the seat vacated by the retiring Rej. Karl Lecompte Ltd Corydon it. It was the biggest Iowa democratic Victory in Congress since the 1936 elections when five of Iowa a then nine congressional seats were held by democrats. Upset were reps. Paul Cunningham in Des Moines and Henry to lie a Decorah. The other four incumbent republicans. Fred Schwengel Davenport h. R Gross Waterloo Ben f Jensen Exira and Charles b. Hoeven. Alton were re elected. The democrats made their gains in the districts rated As a marginal Quot in pre election speculation because the incumbents won in 1956 by margins of five per cent or less. Rep. Merwin Coad a Boone easily Defeated Robert Waggoner fort Dodge Republican and former aide to sen. Thomas Martin Ltd Iowa to Lead the democrats assault on staunch Republican districts. Leonard g. Wolf 33, Elkader making his second bid for Congress Defeated Talle. 66. Who had served in Congress since 1939. Wolf is a feed dealer. Neal e. Smith. 38, an attorney who lives on a farm near Altoona and practices Law in Des Moines ousted Cunningham 68. Who first was elected to Congress in 1940 Steven Carter 43. A Democrat and an attorney making his fourth bid for election Defeated John h. Kyi 39. Bloomfield in Lecompte District. Coati Schwengel and Gross won easily. Schwengel Defeated state j sen. Thomas j. Dailey Burlington j Democrat who passed up the Opportunity to run for re election and therefore will be absent from the legislature next year. Schwengel was elected to his sixth term. Gross turned Back Michael Micich. 41, a Turkey Fanner and three term mayor of Charles City who also ran against Gross in 1956. Gross a former news commentator.1 also was elected to a sixth term. Jensen Defeated Ellsworth o. Hays. 36. Hamlin Farmer and former Weidman for the democratic state Central committee. It will be Jensen s Lith term in Congress. Hoeven Defeated Democrat Donald e o Brien. 35, Sioux City the i Woodbury county attorney. It will be Hoevens ninth term in Congress Iowa voters democrats big Republican majority for candidates in county Henry county gave the re pub j lican candidates big majorities at \ tile state and District Levels and j elected republicans to All county offices tuesday. This Strong Republican vote in the county did not follow the state or National trend. There was evidence of the democratic sentiment however in the vote at tile head of the ticket. The Republican candidates for governor and lieutenant governor did not run As Well As the remainder of the ticket. One race developed in the county. Robert Hansen of new London candidate for county attorney on the democratic ticket fell Short of Victory Over incumbent Charles Garretson. Republican by Only 166 votes. The fact that this was to of a hotly contested race became apparent in the Early returns and while Garretson kept ahead As the precincts reported he never was out of danger. Garretson lost Baltimore Center Jackson new London corporation and township Rome and Tippecanoe. He and Hansen tied with 123 each in Canaan. Garretson total was 2,804 w hich was 166 More than Hansen s total of 2,638. John b. Rockwell won by about 1,000 votes Over e n. Smith of new London for state representative. Rockwell received 3,209 and Smith 2,187. In the other county race in which there was Competition. John w. Metcalf was reelected to the Board of supervisors Over Ralph h Meade. Metcalf received Over 1,200 More votes than did Meade. 3.321 to 2,104. That was for the 1960 term. For the 1959 term l. T. Harlan of Hillsboro was unopposed he received a Nice complimentary vote of 3.754. Other unopposed candidates received votes As follows e. J. Olson for county auditor. 3,916 w. H. Hayward for county treasurer 3,914 Harold j. Davis for clerk 3,878 Russell k Van Tuyl. For sheriff. 3,925 Helen m. Virden for recorder 3.906 Hugh r. Dallner for Coroner 3.800 and for Hospital trustees two to be elected Orville Allender 3.822, and Edgar Hartley 3,725. George o Van Allen unopposed for judge of the District court received 3,970 for the regular term and 3,849 for the term to fill a vacancy. Des Moines and Louisa counties also Are part of the District. The vote tor rep. C. M Vance for state senator and rep. Fred Schwengel for reelection to Congress is Given in other stones. The vote in the county for Candida Al the state level was As gov. Hers he Loveless reelected Loveless looks to second term with a humility Des Moines up a gov. Herschel c. Loveless said he would approach his second term As Iowa s chief executive with a a profound sense of Loveless issued the following Stan nuut at the governors mansion after his Victory a naturally i am honoured by the expression approval the citizens of Iowa have Given to my first administration. A a it a with a profound sense of humility that i undertake the responsibility of directing the executive Branch of your state government for another two years. A in my second term i shall Continuo to strive for a better Iowa improved government services expanded employment Opportunity for our citizens and an equitable sharing of the Cost of government. A with the Campaign behind us i Appeal to All elements of our population and to All elected state and local officials regardless of political affiliation to join in providing Iowa with the Forward looking leadership our people have a right to a or. And mrs. S. Ii. Glenden Ning and daughter mrs. Enoch rubies and her Little son Randy Are Lyaung thursday for a two Day visit with their daughters and Sisters. Mrs. Duane Johnson and mrs. Edward Lawton both of Galesburg 111. John b. Rockwell state representative follows. Republicans Bavin g the majority in each Case for governor William g. Murray 3.112 Herschel c. Loveless 2.526 for lieutenant governor w. L. Mooty 3.121 Edward j m Manus 2,339 for Secretary of state Melvin d. Synhorst 3.279 Edith m. Johnson 2.126for auditor of state Chet b Akers 3.368 j. Rex Weddle 1,999 for treasurer of state m. L. Abrahamson 3,351 Harvey e Montgomery 2,013 a for Secretary of agriculture Clyde Spry 3.272 Neel f. Hill 2,143 for attorney general Norman a Elbe 3.221 Don Wilson 2.127 i i for Commerce commissioner two to be elected John m. Ropes 3.118 i Lloyd r Smith. 3.126 Harold e. Hughes 2,152 Bernard j. Martin 2.084 for judges of the supreme court three to be elected Theodore g. Garfield 3,168 Ralph a Oliver 3.169 Charles f. Wennerstrum 3,176 Frank f. Messer 2,108 p j Siegers 2 .010 i t Eugene Thornton 2,048 i for judge of the supreme court j to fill vacancy j e to Isermann 3,107 Harry f Garrett 2.084 fewer votes i cast than in 54 j i the number of votes cast i tues Day in Henry county was about i new state senator a rep. >1. Vance Republican was elected As the new state senator from Henry and Washington counties defeating Virgil Trabert. Denim rat by 2,315 votes. Vance received 3,333 Des Moines up gov herself. I c. Loveless led the Iowa democratic party to its greatest Triumph in two decades in tuesday election As the democrats Caplin cd four congressional seats and made gains All Down t ii e ticket. Lovek s who cracked a 20-Yeai Republican hold on the chief executives of ice two years ago scored an impressive Victory i n defeating Republican William g. Murray to re election. His vote getting Power helped the democratic congressional delegation from one to four with democrats rolling to Victory in All four of the state s a Ama Dinar districts the 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th. Doo a Democrat also w a elected lieutenant governor for the fir time since 1938 and another apparently had a Chance to win the attorney general s seat for the first time in 20 years. The democrats also made sizeable gains in the legislature and appeared to have won both Commerce commission seats and per haps three of the four supreme court seats. The Strong democratic showing we As seen by political observers As not Only proof of Loveless strength but aroused voter rejection of Murray s proposal to increase the slate sales tax from 2 to 3 per cont. Loveless who polled 512 per cent of the vote in 1956 in defeat ing Republican gov. Leo a Hooch improved on his margin against Murray polling better than 54 per cent. With 2,425 of the 2,487 precincts reporting. Loveless had polled 378,469 votes to 448,750 tor Murray. Too the Lone incumbent democratic congressman rep. Merwin Coati swept to an impressive Victory in the 6th District defeating Robe to Waggoner by about 15.000 votes two years ago Coad won by oni it 198 votes. The democrats also took the three marginal eat held by republicans with Leonard g. Wolf winning in the 2nd District Steven v. Carter in the 4th and near e Smith in the 5th. The four gop incumbents won in the 1st, 3rd, 7th and 8th districts. Dod state sen. Edward j. Of Manus d Keokuk was carried to Victory Over state rep. W l. Moot r Grundy Center Iii the race to lieutenant governor. Des Moines attorney Don Wilson a Democrat held a slight Lead Over atty. Gen. Norman Elbe who was bidding for a second term. The Republican ileum ends in in Henry county and 3,300 in Washington county for a total of 6,633. Trabert received 2.136 in Henry county and 2,182 in Washington county for a total of 4,318. Vance succeeds Carl Anderson of Wellman who was not a candidate for reelection. Democrats add to majority in Congress Schwengel reelected rep. Ired Schwengel was reelected to Congress from the first District Over Thomas e. Dailey Democrat of Burlington. Returns not quite Complete gave Schwengel a Lead of Over 7,000. Schwengel had a big Lead in Henry county he received 3,257 votes to Dailey a 2,206, a difference of 1,051. Dean of legislature won t be returning Des Moines up a t la c a Dean Quot of the Iowa legislature wont be Back next year for the Oil reason which can Stop any politician he did t get enough votes. Sen. Arch Mcfarlane a water Loo who darted his lawmaking Here in 1914, was beaten by demo rat Melvin Wolf. Waterloo by a 17,066 to 16,255 margin. Mcfarlane has served As speaker of the House speaker pro tem of the House and As lieutenant governor Dunn his political career which dates Back to 1914. The posts of Secretary of state auditor treasurer and Secretary cd agriculture All apparently won re election although the margin was slim for most of them. Loveless Victory in his bid for a second term was All the More unique in this traditional Republican stronghold since it came in an off year election. Only once before in Modem times had a Democrat won election As governor in a non presidential year. That was in 1934 when the late Clyde l. Heiring was re elected. The election capped the most Biller campaigns in recent years. The political fight became so bitter that Loveless 47, refused to have any Contact with Murray 55, an Iowa slate College economic proles or making his first try for Public office. On one occasion he turned his Back on Murray a outstretched hand. Loveless built up commanding j ii ads in the Industrial centers where labor organizations Are the strongest and where there was great opposition to the three per cent sales tax. He carried Polk county by 17.506 votes increasing his margin of two years ago by nearly 7 Hoo votes. He carried Black Hawk county by More than 4,000 and Linn county by nearly 5.000. Before it was Over Murray wha keel away at his Lead but he just did t have the support. At about 11 45 p. In. Murray conceded. The bitterest political Campaign in recent years was Over. Washington up democrats surged to their greatest congressional Triumph today since the Roosevelt new Deal. President Eisenhower who had pleaded in vain for a gof Victory was confronted for his last two years in office with a House and Senate under More Complete opposition domination than any Ever before faced by a chief executive in this Century. As of mid morning the indicated margins of democratic control in the 86th Congress were 28 Senate and 130 House seats compared with the present margins of two Senate and 37 House. The democratic tide which started rolling in Maine two months ago swept across such Republican strongholds As Vermont Ohio be j Braska. South Dakota and wisc on i t sin. 1 too j the president was at a loss to explain what the voters had done. I but he agreed with vice president j Richard m. Nixon whose hard campaigning had failed to save the Day for the gop. That republicans j Are inclined to Campaign too Little Between elections. Unless the republicans Start fighting right now. Eisenhower said they will find themselves in a bad Way in the 1960 presidential Campaign. In addition to giving democrats lopsided control of Congress the greatest for an opposition party since the second half of Grover Cleveland s second administration tuesday s landslide engulfed a number of gop governors. The indicated governor count is democrats 34 to 14 Republican compared with 29 democratic and 19 Republican now. There were some Republican Bright spots and the brightest was in new York state where Nelson a. Rockefeller whipped democratic gov. Averell Harriman and carried rep. Kenneth b. Keating to a Senate Victory Over Democrat Frank s. Hogan. But the president refused to do any guessing about the 1960 Republican presidential slate or even discuss the relative political Virtues of Rockefeller and Nixon. 235 present House x 200 indicated change minus 48 plus 47 plus i x includes 5 rep. And 3 dem. Vacancies. President to Battle spending standings in Congress by i i standings of the next Congress As compiled by United press International at noon . Senate necessary to control--50 Washington up a president Eisenhower admittedly disappointed Over the outcome of the election said today he intends to continue battling As hard As possible against what he regards As excessive spending proposals by some congressional democrats. The president in his news conference review of tuesday s democratic sweep was not conciliatory toward his political opposition. He did say however that Dunn the recent Campaign he had not meant to Label All democrats As devotees of a wholesale reckless spending a and left Wing extremism but was speaking Only of his disregard for what he called the spender wring of the party. Apparently he confessed he did not make a great impression because the republicans did not get enough votes. 0 0 9 Ile pledged an unrelenting fight for lower Federal spending next year including cuts in the defense department. He was asked whether Ive considered that the people had chosen the left Wing by putting the democrats into commanding control of Congress As against the a sensible government he had offered for the republicans. Eisenhower replied that the people obviously voted for a class of Democrat he w Ould rank among the spenders. Then he added gravely that s where there a going to be trouble. 0 0 9 god willing he continued he planned to spend the next two years fighting to get the Cost of government Down instead of permitting loosely handled Federal finances which he had denounced repeatedly during t h e Campaign and attributed to tile democrats. 0 0 9 he would not Hazard any guesses on the gof late in 1960. He even declined to discuss the Virtues of vice president Richard m Nixon As compared with those of Nelson a Rockefeller the Suc-1 Essul gop gubernatorial candidate in new York. The president said he anticipated no trouble dealing with a democratic Congress because he believed a lot of democrats joined him in wanting to do what was rep. Dem. Best of the country. Elected a 25 leading 0 i elected to state Senate hol Dovci a 26 36 indicated among state senators in the Are i new Senate 34 62 elected a tuesday were Charles f. Present Senate 47 49 Eppers in the first District at indicated Keokuk and Carl Hoschek in the change minus 13 pills 13 ninth District at Burlington. Both Hoise Are democrats. Rep. Dem. Ind. Eppers is a tonner it. Pleasant elected 149 276 0 resident. His wife is the former leading 3 6 i Louise Gottschalg. Blythe Conn. I be Lea ted former state representative was new House 152 282 i Defeated by Hoschek. 1.000 less than four years ago. The Las previous non presidential election. The number this year was around 5,700 compared w Ith around 6 800 four years ago. A senatorial contest increased the interest four years ago ii will be recalled. Unofficial tabulation of Henry county vote governor Murray a t. Z is us /. I u of w a e a he o Jjck it s it a a. 2 i 4, St 4. 0 Al. % 7 a it j s of a i re z c 4. Jato ? 2 5 y s x 7 county auditor Olson county treasurer Hayward clerk Hist. Court Davis county sheriff Van Tuyl a 8 la a z w c p. A it if la it 5 r w z v. Is la if a c a w a a Board of supervisors 1959 Tenn Harlan a Board of supervisors 111960 term Metcalf a to a i Baltimore 48 94 50 84 44 96 65 53 84 49 86 90 65 64 64 65 33 too 61 63 47 89 Canaan 156 101 161 88 166 86 205 153 97 152 90 204 205 204 206 209 122 122 195 189 166 78 109 98 105 94 109 93 136 116 84 117 82 125 12 7 128 126 127 88 108 122 119 113 88 Hill Boro. 73 38 78 32 i 5 33 84 74 34 76 31 81 82 81 85 86 72 35 82 86 78 07 Jackson. 57 78 54 77 57 65 89 70 59 59 64 85 86 84 87 81 59 72 78 82 71 60 Jefferson 122 134 117 131 124 124 150 121 124 125 116 151 151 150 152 149 124 122 146 143 129 112 Marion. 82 88 95 73 95 to 124 108 56 98 66 127 129 125 125 124 95 64 119 119 108 58 it p Ward i 386 305 387 288 410 262 501 403 274 438 240 484 483 482 501 496 363 307 491 474 429 248 i p Ward ii. 314 194 325 173 333 165 396 331 169 351 141 392 395 393 394 392 285 210 394 385 348 155 or. P Ward Iii. 192 189 191 175 262 159 247 204 169 205 161 240 244 241 243 241 195 170 241 226 206 161 it. P Ward in. 323 239 311 229 346 199 413 338 214 338 201 398 411 407 410 407 278 274 396 385 351 195 new London corp. 255 347 255 317 269 313 346 307 267 183 391 339 335 330 344 336 172 411 317 320 255 310 new London to p. 91 65 91 61 99 53 113 too 49 85 63 121 118 114 115 111 69 79 109 112 96 55 Rome. 25 45 24 44 24 42 30 19 47 26 41 27 25 27 28 27 21 41 26 26 22 41 Salem. 148 95 145 90 140 92 172 149 80 151 73 169 169 168 168 171 143 93 162 168 152 76 Scott. 328 193 331 174 349 159 414 375 128 342 151 415 418 415 410 419 309 193 402 407 347 145 Tippecanoe 73 71 69 72 77 64 95 75 65 70 70 83 87 84 88 84 67 69 85 83 59 78 Trenton 86 64 86 59 95 52 104 84 64 94 53 104 104 103 102 104 87 59 101 99 93 54 wave 244 88 246 78 243 75 281 253 72 249 67 281 280 278 277 277 222 109 273 268 251 74 totals 311? 2526 8121 ?339 3257 2206 3970 3333 2136 3208 2187 3916 3914 3878 3925 3906 2804 2638 3800 3754 3321 2104

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