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...Connor really did not belong in the Senatorial race in the first place. Springfield Mayor since 1957, he challenged Governor Foster Furcolo for the Democratic nomination last spring. After a tough bid by the young bachelor for endorsement, the state convention in Worcester backed the party man, Furcolo...
...pros shuddered about his slim chances, O'Connor furthered his audacious challenge of the Governor by entering a primary against him in September. O'Connor waged a vigorous but financially poor campaign and emerged--some-how--as the victor by 50,000 votes. He carried Boston in the primary and attracted the votes of several ethnic groups previously considered Furcolo property. Then, as the Saltonstall camp discarded files and files on the Governor's vulnerable record in office and as some state reisdents rejoiced over Furcolo's defeat, O'Connor set out to unseat "Salty," the senior senator whose devotional...
...campaign was unique in Massachusetts annals in that it lacked a surplus of corruption charges, below-the-belt exchanges, and name-calling. No one would catch Salty participating in such political trash and O'Connor had better things on his mind...
That was the O'Connor pitch and it was very effective when delivered on a street corner in his vigorous, speaking style, O'Connor said the right things, and he tried to do so without alienating those who liked Saltonstall perhaps as a museum piece but not as a senator. However few people heard what he had to say and fewer were sure that they should abandon Saltonstall...
...common plea in the Mayor's camp was that there was no money. His main weapons were newspaper advertising (less than other candidates), his private car, and a fistful of brochures that explained all about Tom O'Connor. He was handicapped by lack of man-power in what a Boston Globe reporter once said (but did not write) was the worst publicized campaign in Massachusetts. He stated that all the other politicians flooded the news rooms with charges, counter-charges, and press releases. The O'Connor managers caught on, it seems, only in the last days of the campaign...