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Senator Robert A. Taft of Hamilton County, Ohio last week wrote a letter that: 1) fulfilled a gentleman's agreement; 2) launched Ohio's Governor John William Bricker as a 1944 Presidential candidate...
Robert Taft had looked ahead: last month Bricker was elected Governor for the third term with a whopping majority, was in shape to challenge Taft's hold on the Ohio delegation two years hence. Besides, politically wise Robert Taft saw brewing a clash between liberal and Old Guard wings of G.O.P.-a confirmed middle-of-the-roader like John Bricker could maybe line up the in-betweens and the Old Guard, keep Robert Taft out of the cold...
...neither he nor any other Ohio politico was prepared for what the "listless" voters did at the polls. Republicans gained eight seats in the House, the biggest turnover in any State; handsome, grey-thatched Republican Governor John W. Bricker won by 375,000, the biggest majority ever given an Ohio governor. It was the lightest vote since the early '20s, but it was not the Republicans who stayed away. The G.O.P. had gained in previous off years, but never this much...
Ohio's voters also paid a tribute-the kind a politician understands best-to the efficient, blameless administration of Governor Bricker. Unlike Minnesota's Harold Stassen, John Bricker has taken no decisive stand on world affairs. Sticking to home territory, he ran up an honest record that his opponent could not attack. By the end of his present (second) term, he will have piled up a $40,000,000 surplus. Only other Republican to serve three terms as Ohio governor was Rutherford B. Hayes, who ended up in the White House. John Bricker's friends have hopes...
...pound class Charlie D'Autormont, last year's champion, Dave More, Charlie Mulcahy, and Jack Bricker are on the card, while Tom Bartlett and Frants Sporon-Fledler are in the 165-pound class...