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After Estes evaluated and entered, the cards indeed seemed to be stacked against him. While Adlai Stevenson whisked across Minnesota on the wings of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor organization headed by U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey and Governor Orville Freeman, Kefauver slogged through the state with a collection of political paupers. Adlai made elegant speeches at elaborately arranged meetings; Estes went about shaking hands and chucking chins. Stevenson's supporters began to believe the slaughter would be even greater than their wildest dreams...
...tartan dinner jacket), with only his really good friends in politics invited-the wealthy, intellectual, aristocratic amateurs. Among the guests were Washington Lawyer George Ball, Louisville Editor (Courier-Journal) Barry Bingham. Chicago Industrialist (duplicating machines) Edison Dick. By the time that Stevenson's sister and biographer (My Brother Adlai), Elizabeth Ives, arrived, Stevenson was beginning to get the news from Minnesota. "It's lousy," he said. "It's just awful...
...first two names on Adlai Stevenson's demolished slate of delegates, the Senator and the governor not only failed to pull Stevenson in, but may also have locked themselves out of the Democratic National Convention. They might be able to wangle their way onto the floor by some political maneuvers, but they might have to pledge their votes to Kefauver to do it. Pausing to notice the plight of his erstwhile foes, Kefauver last week was big about it all. Said he: "I still would like to have Mr. Freeman and Senator Humphrey on my convention delegation...
...factor in Estes Kefauver's spectacular victory was the difference that Minnesota Democrats found in the two candidates. In Adlai Stevenson many Minnesotans saw a precise talker without much to say, a philosophizer whose philosophy did not clearly emerge-a man they did not really like or even understand. In Estes Kefauver they saw a big, friendly, folksy politician whose comfortable generalities were easy to take and whose warm hand was easy to shake. As reporters combed over the bones of the Minnesota contest, one voter after another spoke of Kefauver as "a down-to-earth...
...matter how much analysis was done, there was one big, stark fact: Adlai Stevenson had taken a critical blow in the middle of his Minnesota. He was not out but he was on the floor, and the count was almost up to ten. The seriousness of his position was wryly illustrated by Kefauver's manager, Florence Joseph ("Jiggs") Donohue. Asked if Kefauver might accept Stevenson as a candidate for Vice President (an unthinkable question on the Monday before Minnesota), Donohue cracked: "I think it might be given serious consideration, if he can demonstrate a greater capacity to get votes...