Word: blakley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many a Texas Democrat, had cast his absentee ballot for Liberal Democrat Ralph W. Yarborough, incumbent junior U.S. Senator seeking reelection. Election day vote counting proved that Mr. Sam had lots of company. Results at week's end: 680,000 for Yarborough, 486,000 for William A. Blakley, Yarborough's multimillionaire opponent, who had hoped to lead the forces of Texas Democratic conservatism back to power in Washington. Also nominated: Governor Price Daniel, whose votes exceeded the combined total of his three opponents...
Yarborough's haymakers last week rained down in a crowd-pleasing attack on Blakley's bulging money belt. Blakley, charged Yarborough, is spending $60,000 a day on the campaign, which has been enlivened by barbecues, hillbilly bands and beauty queens. "Seats are bought on the New York Stock Exchange." Yarborough told a statewide television audience. "Now we see an effort to buy one of Texas' seats in the Senate." Noting that Blakley is the largest single stockholder of Braniff Airways, Yarborough told Texas peanut growers: "He has stated that he is opposed to federal subsidies...
These thrusts stung Missouri-born Bill Blakley, who heaped his pile from nothing to an estimated $200 million (he once drew a $5,000,000 check) in Texas banking, oil, insurance and ranching. In the classic bob-and-weave, Blakley both deprecated his riches and boasted of them; after all, he said, his parents were poor and he was "earning a man's wage" at 14. Then he uncoiled some flickering jabs...
Yarborough's campaign kitty. Blakley charged, is being fed by Eastern organized labor. He dared Liberal Yarborough, who straddles the race issue, to get off the fence. "I challenge him," said Blakley in a resonant drawl, "to deny that funds for his past and present campaigns come from the same source as the funds which financed the attack on our public school system by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...away ahead in next week's Democratic primary because he is well known from four unsuccessful statewide campaigns prior to his election to the Senate. But Yarborough forces have grown unaccountably edgy as the primary nears, are alibiing in advance that a man with Bill Blakley's money could even buy an upset...