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...this is what John A. Volpe, Edward J. McCormack, Elliot L. Richardson '41, and Francis J. Bellotti have been thinking about for months. For anyone of them a loss tomorrow could well mean political oblivion...
Richardson had originally planned on running for re-election with an eye towards 1970's gubernatorial election. But Francis X. Bellotti, Democratic lieutenant-governor from 1962-64 and a busy suburban Boston lawyer, decided this spring to run for attorney general hoping to become the Democratic gubernatorial nominee...
...years later, Volpe, again campaigning primarily on his own name and on promises of reform, defeated Democratic Lt. Gov. Francis X. Bellotti for the governorship. Volpe was aided by many anti-Bellotti votes in that election, which was quite close. Bellotti had defied an unwritten rule of good political behavior by running against (and defeating) Peabody for the Democratic nomination. Many friends of Peabody's resented this and voted for Volpe...
...vitally needed funds were siphoned off from the general election into the primary, diehard Peabody partisans refused to support Bellotti against his Republican opponent, and the accusations that one Democrat had hurled against another provided Governor Volpe with all the ammunition he needed for a winning campaign...
...Democrats under Doherty are also suffering from their failure to offer the public fresh, young candidates. Next year, for example, they will be offering such old party workhorses as Endicott Peabody '42, Edward J. McCormack, Francis X. Bellotti, and Foster Furcolo. All were defeated in their last bids for public office, and some of them have lost more elections than they've won. In addition, such hacks as Francis E. Kelley ("a lightbulb for every housewife") and Pasquale Caggiano ("I been robbed") will undoubtedly decide to run for something and discredit their party still further...