Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Invective has dominated the bitter race for Governor of Pennsylvania almost from the start, and last week Democrat Richardson Dilworth told a Philadelphia audience why. "The five or six issues we have have become deadly dull," he said. "Newspaper readers want something spicy. As a result, for the want of something better to do, we insult each other." He promptly demonstrated how this is done. Cried he of Republican William Scranton: "I would like to separate him from his skinny behind . . . Do you want a man for Governor who spent his time in the State Department helping the cleaning woman...
...Texas gubernatorial race, Vice President Lyndon Johnson seemed to be the main issue. Republican Jack Cox contended that Democrat John Connally is so close to L.B.J. that Connally would be a "puppet Governor." Connally charged that the Cox campaign is "conceived in hypocrisy, nurtured by hate," and that Cox is a "turncoat," since he once endorsed Johnson for President at a Democratic rally. Cox took this as a dastardly accusation and cried: "John Connally couldn't buy his way into office, now he is trying to blast in with smear tactics...
...Democrat Endicott Peabody '42 has been elected Governor of Massachutts by a slim, 8000-vote margin, but incumbent Gov. John A. Volpe is virtually certain to demand a recount in one of the closest elections in the state's history...
...Massachusetts Congressional races, incumbent Republican F. Bradford Morse has scored a late upsurge victory over Democrat Thomas J. Lane in the redistricted Fifth District. Morse was several thousand votes behind when he virtually conceded the election at 5 a.m. Tuesday. But Morse scored very heavily in later counting and piled, up enough votes to defeat Lane
Republican incumbent Wallace F. Bennett narrowly defeated his Democrat opponent David S. King in their race for the Senate seat...