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...lose 15 [out of about 325] delegate votes in the South. Everything's coming up roses." Adds Grenier: "Even if we wanted someone else, we couldn't go up to the convention and sell out our people. They want Gold-water." Says Oklahoma's Republican Governor Henry Bellmon: "I know personally of perhaps half a dozen people in this state who are for Rockefeller. But I know thousands who are for Goldwater." "The people need a strong hand in Washington," insists Texas Committeewoman Mrs. Charles Gibson, "and I feel that Goldwater will just set us straight...
Banned by the state constitution from seeking reelection, blamed by many Democrats for wrecking the party to the point that Republican Henry Bellmon was elected Governor, Edmondson thus had considerable cause to talk about retiring from politics. But Kerr's death enabled him to prolong his political career for at least two more years, when he must go to the voters. Among those already announced against him: Kerr's son, Robert Jr., 36, an Oklahoma City attorney...
...Oklahoma, Republican Henry Bellmon captured the governorship by a hefty margin, becoming the first G.O.P. Governor in the state's history. In Kentucky, Republican Senator Thruston B. Morton decisively defeated Democrat Wilson W. Wyatt in one of 1962's most meaningful political battles. It was an uncompromising clash, without any me-too touches to blur the issues: Morton, a former G.O.P. National Chairman, a hard-punching conservative; Wyatt, a founder of Americans for Democratic Action, one of the last of those who might be described as an unmistakable left-winger. The New Frontier made Morton's defeat...
...Henry Bellmon became the first Republican governor of Oklahoma, beating favored Democrat W. P. Atkinson. Democratic Senator Mike Monroney won an easy victory over Republican challenger B. Hayden Crawford...
Long Wait. Gubernatorial Candidate Bellmon is less doctrinaire. He wants to modernize the state government, trim the payrolls, and straighten out a badly built road system. Democrat-Atkinson's big argument is for an increase from 2% to 3% in the state sales tax-a plan that has notably failed to capture the voters' imagination. Bellmon obviously senses that victory is within reach. "After 55 years of Democrats," he says, "it's up to us this year to head up an honest, hardworking and harmonious Governor's office. If we don't, it may take...