Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidate for Governor) is Keen Johnson, 41, former newshawk and writer for Happy's campaigns. Judge Brady Stewart of Paducah is Happy's official manager, but Johnson, State Finance Director Dan Talbott and State Highway Commissioner Bob Humphreys are the active jockeys. Knowing well that behind Barkley would be all the power of Federal patronage, they organized the State's 7,500 jobholders into an efficient Chandler machine. Campaign contributions of 2% salary (as in the Townsend-McNutt machine over in Indiana) are expected. To compete with the enormous WPA and AAA influences for Barkley, a rural...
Behind the opposing Barkley campaign is the Louisville Triumvirate-supposed to be the decisive force in any Democratic contest in Kentucky. This extraordinary political team is composed of Lawyer Shackleford Miller Jr.; Michael ("Mickey" j Brennan, 61, red-headed one-time saloonkeeper; and "Miz" Lennie Lee McLaughlin, 34, who looks like the Duchess of Windsor and lives in style at the Kentucky Hotel. A country belle from Breckenridge County, she got into politics via a typing job at Alben Barkley's headquarters when he ran for Governor in 1923. She runs the office of the Jefferson County Democratic executive...
...Action. Mr. Barkley, while traveling 1,500 miles a week and speaking five or six times a day, mostly keeps his coat on, preserves his dignity, discusses his record (99% perfect) as a Roosevelt supporter, reiterates Franklin Roosevelt's appeal for his return. His meetings open with "America." His introducers refer to him as "the next President of the United States." From the platform, Almighty God is frequently invoked in his behalf. A typical Barkley exhortation...
Happy Chandler on the road is a sweating, laughing, singing, handshaking, baby-patting dervish. His speeches last only 45 to 60 minutes (as against 90 minutes for Mr. Barkley's). He calls first names and nicknames of people in the crowd, calls oldsters "Dad" and "Mom," old Negroes "Uncle." His sound truck plays him into the towns with Happy Days Are Here Again and he opens meetings by singing My Old Kentucky Home, is ever ready to oblige with Sonny Boy, Mother Machree or any other song the crowd calls for. Riding between towns he talks incessantly and watches...
...basic appeal is brutually direct. To smalltown bigwigs partial to Barkley he will say straight out, "By God, Jim, you've got to vote for me or I'll make it tough...