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...headline: I WILL SUPPORT N.A.A.C.P. LAWS. Beneath it was a smudgy picture of a smiling white girl and Negro boy holding hands, with the statement: "God created us equal. We should live together equally." The photo, said the broadside, had been taken at a recent rally for Edward T. Breathitt Jr., 38, Democratic candidate for Governor...
...Happy, but there was one thing wrong: the voters had changed. His applause was coming from the familiar courthouse crowd who had long idolized him. But in Kentucky, which permits voting at 18, the electorate was shifting, and the old soft soap no longer washed well. Edward T. ("Ned") Breathitt Jr., 38, one of the rebels who had directed Combs's strategy, entered the Democratic primary against Chandler, matched him in folksy friendliness, and offered something more: a serious discussion of Kentucky finances, in which he claimed that education programs would suffer if the sales tax were cut back...
...record number of Kentucky voters turned out for last week's Democratic primary, chose Breathitt by more than 60,000 votes (309,377 to Chandler's 247,661). Breathitt, a former state representative, state commissioner of personnel, and state public service commissioner, will face Republican Louie B. Nunn, 39, in November. Nunn is a Glasgow attorney who managed the successful 1956 U.S. Senate campaigns of Thruston Morton and John Sherman Cooper but, like Breathitt, has never before run for state office...
...office he has held twice before (1935-39, 1955-59) in a career that includes a stint in the U.S. Senate (1939-45) and a notably unhappy period as commissioner of major league baseball (1945-51). Opposing Chandler in the May 28 Democratic primary is Lawyer Edward T. Breathitt Jr., 38, who has the backing of Incumbent Governor Bert Combs. Old Happy is pretty much ignoring Breathitt (pronounced breath-it) and is popping his cork at Combs...
Chandler deliberately avoids mentioning his opponent's name, except to call him "that inept, incompetent, nice, pretty young fellow who wants to be Governor." By actual count, Chandler has so far ignored or declined 80 challenges to debate Breathitt on television. As for Breathitt, he has some good references. An ancestor was a pre-Civil War Kentucky Governor, for whom Breathitt County was named; his grandfather was a state attorney general, and an uncle was lieutenant governor. Schooled by his family in politics, Breathitt took a law degree at the University of Kentucky, served three terms in the legislature...