Word: congressmen
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Shortly before the Republican National Convention last summer, 54 conservative Republican Congressmen signed a statement urging the nomination of Barry Goldwater, arguing that his candidacy would aid Republican candidates throughout the U.S. When the new Congress convenes in January, at least 23 of those Representatives will be among the missing, either through defeat or retirement...
Case said he refused to support Goldwater because of the Senator's stand on the civil rights bill. Asked about the Republican Congressmen in the South, Case said that "these people won't determine the course of the Republican party on civil rights...
Other election results are almost as disappointing. The voters registered little protest against the Common-wealth's rotten system which gives away most elections below the top of the ticket by default to one party or the other. All of the state's 12 congressmen, for instance, who had token opposition at most, were easily re-elected. Some of them, like Representative Silvio O. Conte and Edward Boland, deserved re-election anyway, but it would do the others a lot of good if they had to campaign. Similarly, if the Republicans would nominate real candidates for the lower constitutional offices...
...liberal Republicans who held up best while Democrats made their gains. Fourteen of the 16 most liberal G.O.P. Congressmen (using the National Review's scoreboard) were re-elected (one of the other two retired). All of them had to overcome Johnson sweeps in their states...
...second reason for at least guarded optimism about the Southern vote is that Republican congressmen were elected in the most powerful enclaves of segregation, Mississippi and Alabama. Local Democrats will now be forced to offer alternatives to these Goldwater men, and if such candidates need Negro votes, they will in all probability become more liberal. Because it would give moderates an accepted forum, the introduction of a two-party dialogue cannot help but improve the dismal plight of Negroes in these states...