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...Cover) The Democratic candidate for Gover nor of Pennsylvania is a proudly emotional man. His right fist punches the air, a forefinger lashes out, his face flushes furiously beneath his silver hair. Philadelphia's former Mayor Richardson Dilworth. all atremble, stammers slightly and the savage words about his opponent spill out: "My family on both sides were here long before those robber barons of his showed up. His family sold out their interests in Lackawanna County and then moved out their money . . . This man who claims to be a gentleman . . . this Little Lord Fauntleroy . . . this Ivy League Dickie Nixon...
...performance is genuine. But it is also calculated to enrage the Republican candidate, to shatter the armored suit of imperturbability that has frustrated Dilworth as few things have before. In open debate, U.S. Representative William Scranton permits a thin smile to flicker across his face while his opponent heaps on abuse. Then he rises to reply-and that reply, despite its cool, deliberate cadence is whiplash in its bitterness against Dilworth. "We have got graft and corruption." he charges. "We have got it in Philadelphia, and we know what has not been done about it ... He cries in front...
...campaign's savage exchanges stem in great part from Dilworth's proven ability to demoralize an opponent on the stump and bury him in a bluster of verbiage. Scranton simply means to stay cool, let Dilworth blurt himself into a fatal political blunder. In 1958 Dilworth made just such an error when he advocated the admission of Red China into the United Nations-an issue that had nothing to do with the Democratic gubernatorial nomination he was then seeking. (He has since changed his mind...
...Dilworth's emotionalism is even the subject of jokes within his own party. Quips former Democratic Governor George Leader: "Nobody controls Dick Dilworth. Sometimes he can't even control himself." Dilworth, however, makes no apology for this facet of his personality. Says he: "I am emotional, and I'm damn proud of it. If it hadn't been for emotional men, Philadelphia wouldn't have moved in the last eleven years...
Teddy's Brother. President Kennedy was in fine political fettle. He and Jackie contributed two votes toward an avalanche victory in Massachusetts for Democratic Senate Candidate Teddy Kennedy. Then he flew to Harrisburg to speak-principally for Philadelphia's ex-Mayor Richardson Dilworth, who is engaged in a bitter fight for Governor against Republican Representative William Scranton...