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...Court of Appeals bench in Chicago. The Department of Justice pointed out to him that the Constitution prohibits a man from stepping directly from the U.S. Senate to the federal bench. From then on Jenner sulked, and refused even to talk to his fellow Indiana Senator, Republican Homer Capehart, about any other nominee for the post. "Believe it or not," Capehart told a friend, "the senior Senator from Indiana can't get an appointment with the junior Senator...
...Capehart finally got his appointment only to have Jenner berate him violently for supporting the Eisenhower program. "I've never taken so much abuse in my life," Capehart later confessed. "I'm afraid one of the 96 Senators is nuts." By that time Jenner was calling Capehart, who himself has Grade A credentials in the right-of-center division of the G.O.P., a "New Deal sonofabitch...
...looking Governor George North Craig, who had seized control of the state Republican organization from the Jenner forces (TIME, March 7). At the beginning of 1956, Jenner was not even showing much interest in leading his own faction of the Indiana G.O.P. organization. He predicted the ignominious defeat of Capehart and other Republicans in Indiana next November. While his lieutenants sour-graped that control of the Indiana G.O.P. would be worthless in the great defeat, Jenner was saying that the Republican Party, ruined by the Eisenhower leadership, must be destroyed and rebuilt on the Jenner pattern...
Musing about his colleague's tirades, Homer Capehart last week said, of the state where Bill Jenner once was a political monarch: "I don't think the people of Indiana are taking it seriously." In 1956, Senator Jenner is the symbol of a brand of Republicanism that has quietly, gradually, relentlessly been made obsolete by the Eisenhower Administration. He has been transformed from a reactionary into a fossil...
...Onetime (1940-45) Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for the Indiana seat in the U.S. Senate now held by Republican Homer Capehart...