Love, Love, Love

The clock's hands moved past 11 p.m., the election returns flowed steadily, and the telephone rang in a cramped Manchester, N.H. hotel suite. Democratic National Committeewoman Myrtle McIntyre answered the call, heard the droning drawl of her candidate in the Democratic half of New Hampshire's presidential primary, calling in from the Minnesota campaign hustings to find out how he was doing. Mrs. McIntyre assured the candidate that there was little doubt about his victory. "Really?" asked he. "Yes," said she. Exulted Candidate Estes Kefauver:

"I love you, I love you, I love you one and all."

Kefauver won nicely in a New Hampshire primary that drew 105,188 voters of both parties. The total vote was some 31,000 less than that of 1952 and represented 32% of the state's eligible voters, as compared to the 43% turnout in the hotly contested 1952 primary. Unopposed on the ballot of the presidential preference section, Kefauver received 21,701 votes against 3,806 write-ins for Adlai Stevenson, who was not officially entered and did not campaign in the state. Far more important to Kefauver, he won all twelve of New Hampshire's Democratic delegate places (eight of the delegates will have only a half-vote each at the convention) over candidates listed as favorable to Stevenson.

In Chicago pending a return campaign trip to Minnesota, Adlai Stevenson, who had hoped to surprise Kefauver in New Hampshire, made the best of the shutout. Said he: "I am surprised and pleased by the large vote cast for me in New Hampshire." Less enthusiastic was New Hampshire's Democratic National Committeeman Henry Sullivan, who won with

Kefauver in 1952, switched to Stevenson this year. Mourned Sullivan: "Well, Kefauver came in here and campaigned as if he were running for alderman, with all of that handshaking and all."

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