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Barely 2$ hours after the polls closed, commentators on two of Cleveland's TV and radio stations confidently predicted that incumbent Mayor Ralph S. Locher would win the Democratic Party nomination for another term. That seemed reasonable enough, since, with 70% of the ballots counted, the three-term mayor had a 10,000-vote edge over his closest opponent, Carl B. Stokes, a Negro. Yet within ten minutes, articulate, kinetic Stokes went before the TV cameras and confidently-and correctly-predicted his own victory in the primary. When it came, a short time thereafter, he exulted to Cleveland voters...
...first major U.S. city to elect a Negro mayor. It may still be the first. Currently, the leading contender in the Oct. 3 Democratic primary is Carl Stokes, a Negro state legislator who, running as an independent two years ago, fell short of winning the election from Incumbent Ralph Locher by only 2,143 votes...
Stokes, 40, a handsome, articulate lawyer with an outstanding record in the Ohio House of Representatives, has based a low-key campaign on the lackluster administration of Mayor Locher, 52, and the apathy toward ghetto problems at city hall that helped stir four days of rioting last year in the Negro slum district of Hough. Stokes's campaign advertising proclaims: DON'T VOTE FOR A NEGRO FOR MAYOR. Underneath, in smaller type, the ads urge: "Vote for a Man Who Believes in Cleveland, Carl B. Stokes." Figuring that he can count on East Side Negroes anyway, Stokes...
Stokes's moderate, constructive platform has won him the active support of several leading white businessmen. Last week the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which had endorsed Locher in his three previous campaigns, came out for Stokes in a front-page editorial. "This personable young man," said the city's only morning paper, "has vigor and imagination. He has the courage to try new solutions to the urban problems that are plaguing Cleveland and other cities...
Debris & Malaise. In particular, Mayor Locher has done little to implement the ambitious urban renewal project promised for Hough six years ago, and the section remains a garbage-strewn jungle. Exacerbating racial unrest over slum conditions, Locher (rhymes with poker), a Rumanian-born attorney and friend of former Mayor, now Senator, Frank Lausche, recently ordered a harsh crackdown on Negro demonstrators. "Fill every jail, if necessary," he said. The panic implied in that pronouncement was summed up last week by Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Morton Kondracke, who concluded from a five-week nationwide tour of the urban ghettos: "In Cleveland...