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...Francis X. Bellotti and Endicott Peabody--and their records are one key to the primary election. In 1949 Endicott Peabody left the party of his class, the party of Cabots, Lodges, and Saltonstalls, to join the party of Devers, Furcolos, and Kennedys. After losing the gubernatorial primary in 1960, Peabody refused to support the nominee and earned the enmity of many party men. In 1962, Peabody became governor in an election where the outcome remained in doubt for several days. With this uncertain mandate, Peabody urged needed reforms of the state's archaic constitution. He proposed increased power...
...come out strongly for House Bill 3000, which would transfer the statutory powers of the Governor's Council to the Governor. A constant hurdle to firm executive leadership, and frequently a den of corruption, the Council has drawn fire from nearly all of the state's independent political organizations. Bellotti, who several years ago advocated abolishing the Council, now says that he "could live with it." This stand may cost him the independent vote which Peabody garnered for the Democrats...
Last week's Columbus Day parade indicated that Bellotti may also lose much of the typically Democratic Italian vote. The ex-Governor outshone his opponent as they marched together through Boston's East End, a Democratic and Italian stronghold. Many young woman and children chanted "Volpe, Volpe," and a few broke police lines to besiege the GOP candidate with hugs, kisses, and flowers. Later in the week, Volpe also seemed popular with Lawrence's Italian laborers. As one textile worker said, "Both candidates real nice, you know Italian. But I take Volpe, I think, he so nice...
However, the ex-Governor does have problems, at least thirteen of them: Bellotti's 12 children and Goldwater. The "virility issue," as Volpe's aides call it, cannot be met rationally. Everyone in Massachusetts knows about, and feels either sympathy or admiration for, the fatherly ambitions of the Democratic nominee. The issue is one of the great imponderables of the campaign...
...Bellotti has concentrated on the Goldwater issue, calling Volpe "a party to the coalition of reaction." To illustrate the ex-Governor's "inhumanity," the Democratic nominee tells audiences that Volpe refused in 1962 to implment fully the Federal Manpower Retraining Act. The charge, claims Volpe, is groundless since the Act was then just beginning to oper ate: "Bellotti deals in glittering generalities about Goldwater. Just glittering generalities...