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Annemarie Locher North Vancouver...
...retrospect, the first big hint of Lausche's political life expectancy came last year when the Governor's protégé, Cleveland's mayor, Ralph Locher, was turned out by Carl Stokes, first Negro to assume command of a major American city. As Lausche's reign crumpled last week, a new dynasty was dawning about the personable Stokes. His older brother Louis, 43, became the Democratic congressional nominee in Cleveland's 21st District by topping a 14-man field, with 28,680 votes to his nearest rival's 15,110. Lou Stokes...
Recent mayors, though honest and reasonably competent, have lacked the spunk to meet the city's mounting problems even part way. During Locher's regime, says Thomas Vail, publisher of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "Some of the most powerful people in Cleveland were going to city hall and saying 'Let's get going. What can we do to help?' But nobody could get anywhere with Locher." In Vail's phrase, "that little extra spark" was missing...
Carl Stokes saw himself as the man with the spark two years ago when he ran as an independent candidate against Locher, his former boss. He came within 2,143 votes of winning, and did not let up between elections. This year, Stokes, with the influential support of the Plain Dealer, challenged Locher in the primary. He waged a gentlemanly campaign and mentioned race only to say that his own should not be an issue...
...strategy, identical to Hatcher's in Gary, was to organize the Negro vote solidly and chip away at the white electorate. It worked: his plurality over Locher was a comfortable 18,736, even though the Cuyahoga County Democratic chairman, Albert Porter, had allowed letters to go out calling Stokes a "racist Republican...