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...cratic Party's field of presidential hopefuls. His timing could hardly have been better; Kefauver and Stevenson were slugging each other into exhaustion, however temporary, and political leaders in both North and South, pending the outcome in California, were quietly looking over dark horses. Said Illinois' National Committeeman Jake Arvey, a steadfast Stevenson man: "All around the country I heard that Symington is the front-runner among the dark horses. Of course Stevenson would have to be stopped first...
...every honor in sight. He and the party's hard-core liberals, dominant in Texas during the early Roosevelt days, but almost voiceless during Shivers' years as governor, had agreed in advance upon the election of Temple's Byron Skelton, 51, longtime party loyalist, as national committeeman. But when Johnson tried to balance Liberal Skelton by proposing McAllen's conservative Mrs. Lloyd Bentsen Jr. as national committeewoman, he overstepped. The resurgent liberals, pointing to Beryl Bentsen's past support of Shivers, rallied behind their own candidate, Mrs. R. D. Randolph, a spry, 62-year...
...this spirit of moderation, Folsom submitted himself to the voters for a mid-term test of strength, running for Democratic national committeeman in the 1956 Democratic preferential primary. Last week Alabama rudely turned him down. Folsom won only four of the 62 counties he had won in 1955. He lost industrial Birmingham despite the support of the leaders of organized labor. He lost his own native Coffee County. He lost all of northern Alabama, the state's traditional stronghold of relative moderation. The tally against Kissin' Jim: 226,738 to 78,174, just short of three...
...income at jobs in nearby towns (in 1955 U.S. farmers made 30% of their income from nonfarm sources), and are as likely to be affected by town political sentiment as they are to have an effect upon it. Don R. Massie, a paper-company salesman who is a Republican committeeman in Bloomington, Ill., says: "Farmers used to run everything in politics here. And now they don't amount to anything-but we've been trying to keep that quiet...
Opponents of the plan asserted that these results did not constitute class authorization, but some committee members declared that the Union Committee might make a wiser decision than the class. "Even if over half the class votes for Smoker, we don't have to have one," said one Committeeman, because those favoring one "have not thought about it fully...