NEBRASKANS TO CHOOSE

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31678, 14 May 1968, Page 17

NEBRASKANS TO CHOOSE

(N.Z.P. A. -Reuter —Copyright)

OMAHA (Nebraska), May 13.

Senator Robert Kennedy and the former Republican Vice-President, Mr Richard Nixon, appeared certain today to win tomorrow’s Nebraska primary elections.

Observers said the only question seemingly unresolved on the eve of the key primarv contest was not who would win, but by how much.

Senator Kennedy and Senator Eugene McCarthy, his chief rival in the primary election contests, which will end in the party’s August Presidential nominating convention, were winding up their campaigns today with addresses and rallies in the State capital of Lincoln and in Omaha and its suburbs. Mr Nixon, assured of heading the Renublican ballot, completed his campaigning last week. Senator Kennedy's final campaign was aimed at eliminating Senator McCarthy aa a serious challenger for the Democratic Presidential nomination and also at showing strength in the face of a new challenge from VicePresident Hubert Humnhrey, who only recently decided to run.

Mr Humphrey’s name does not appear on the Democratic ballot. President Johnson is still listed as his decision not to seek renomination came too late for bis name to be removed from the ballot paper.

But anti-Kennedy Democrats were striving to get voters to write in Mr Humphrey’s name or choose the President in an effort to limit the New York Senator’s expected victory. Senator Kennedy, who won the Indiana primary with 42 ner.cent of the vote last week, hopes for a winning margin of 50 per cent to aid him in other forthcoming primaries. For Senator McCarthy, a loss in Nebraska could spell the virtual end to his campaign. which started with his triumph in the New Hampshire primary in February. Major Republican candidates on the ballot paper are Mr Nixon, the Californian Governor, Mr Ronald Reagan, and the Minnesota Governor. Mr Harold Stassen. The New York Governor. Mr Nelson Rockefeller, the only declared Republican can-

didate apart from Mr Nixon, is not contesting and his few supporters in this predominantly Conservative State predict only a few write-in votes for him.

Governor Reagan is the only threat to a massive Nixon victory, although his name was entered here without his approval and he has not personally campaigned.

Presidential Possibility GV Z P.A -Reuter—Copyright) CHARLESTON (West Virginia), May 12. Senator Edward Kennedy today campaigned for his brother. Senator Robert Kennedy, in West Virginia, and hinted that he himself might be a Presidential candidate in eight years. The Massachusetts Democrat visited Charleston, Logan Clarksburg, and Wheeling, and In each city he made the same remarks. “When I came to West Virginia eight years ago I was introduced as the brother of the next President,” he said. “Now I’m still being introduced as the brother of the next President” When his supporters shouted, "Who cOmes next?” Senator Kennedy replied: “Just be around eight years from now.” He added that in eight years he might have “different motives” for visiting . the State.