Skowhegan, Maine - Victory smile- Senator Margaret Chase Smith flashes smile as primary returns tonight showed she was leading her opponent Robert L. Jones by a wide margin for Republican senatorial nomination. Jones, a political newcomer, is a McCarthy supporter while Senator Smith has been a critic of the Wisconsin senator's methods. Ind. Senator Smith. Margin is 5-1 for Mrs. Smith. Apostle of McCarthy is decisively beaten in Maine Primary. Portland, Maine - Maine Republicans overwhelmingly nominated Senator Margaret Chase Smith in Monday's primary and cut down in crushing defeat the challenger she said. Senator McCarthy apparently put up against her. Throughout a lackluster campaign and on through the balloting itself the only question was how big the landslide would be. In the end it was a crunching victory, by a margin of more than 5 to 1, over political novice Robert L. Jones McCarthy's 44 year old. Shut out in 19 precincts. GOP nomination is normally tantamount to victory in Maine. A nearly complete count, from 613 of Maine's 626 precincts, showed 96,159 votes for Mrs. Smith, 19,203 for Jones. Perhaps an even more accurate gauge of the magnitude of Jones' defeat was the fact that he carried only four precincts, one of them his home city of Biddeford.

Photo is dated 1954.

Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.