Herter, Kennedy In Morning Surge Show New power

In two surprising upsets, Christian A. Herter '15 went into the lead over incumbent Massachusetts Democratic Governor Paul A. Dever while General Eisenhower won the state's 16 electoral votes.

With 1,258 precinots reported out of a total of 1,967 (356 of 362 from Boston), Herter had 782,971 and Dever had 724,770.

For the first time since 1928, Massachusetts went Republican nationally as Eisenhower carried the state by a small margin.

In the Senatorial contest, Kennedy's victory majority was greater.

The vote was: Kennedy 859,714; Lodge 759,907.

The split between national and local tickets in the state developed when Stevenson failed to carry Boston by a substantial enough majority to offset heavy Republican voting in the rest of the state.

Stevenson took Boston, but only by 57,000. In 1948, President Truman carried the city by 141,000.

While Dever managed to cling to his precarious lead, it became evident that most state offices would be held by Republicans.

From the very start, Kennedy led the ticket, with Dever only a short distance behind. The heaviest voting was in the Presidential contest, but Stevenson lagged behind the Democratic ticket as a whole, with the single exception of the Attorney General race. Democrat Kelly's opponent, Fingold, managed to outrun the Republican ticket, but his lead came to a halt when the Boston precincts reported.

In Congressional elections, there were no surprising changes. Democratic House majority leader John W. McCormack of Boston won easily, as did Republicans John W. Heselton and Edith Nourse Rogers. Representative from the Cambridge district, Democrat Thomas P. O'Neill, outdistanced his opponent from the start. Returns indicated that the Republicans would continue to hold a slim majority in the state's 14-man House delegation.

Republicans took several lesser state offices. In the Attorney General contest, Republican candidate George Fingold took an early lead over incumbent Francis E. Kelly. Fingold rolled up 427,000 votes to Kelley's 291,000.

Sumner Whittler, Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, polled 563,665, against Democratic incumbent Jeff Sullivan's 473,082.

A Democrat won the State Auditorship, but the outcome of the State Treasurer race still as in doubt late this morning. Ex-congressman Foster Furcolo, who took an early lead, found himself slipping behind Roy Papalia, Republican candidate.