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...Pennsylvania, Republicans have united behind a formidable gubernatorial candidate, Representative William Scranton, 44, to run against Philadelphia's Democratic ex-Mayor Richardson Dilworth, who is warring with Representative William Green, boss of the Philadelphia Democratic organization...
...Irish. Dick Dilworth is a two-war Marine veteran who was wounded in the Soissons drive and won a Silver Star on Guadalcanal. He has itched to be Governor for most of his political life. He ran and lost in 1950. Another try for the nomination in 1958 was blocked by a political friend turned foe: Philadelphia Democratic Boss William Joseph Green Jr., 52, the rosy-faced, soft-spoken son of an Irish saloonkeeper. It was Green who first helped Dilworth toward public office; in 1951 Dilworth was part of a reform ticket that ended 67 years of corrupt Republican...
...When Dilworth began his gubernatorial maneuvering this year, Bill Green insisted that his polls showed that Dilworth could not win and would not even carry Philadelphia, where Dilworth moved belatedly last year to clean up a scandal in the city government. Dilworth imported Pollster Lou Harris, Jack Kennedy's trend spotter. Harris found Dilworth the strongest possible Democrat in the field, and told the President so. Despite the fact that Green had helped Kennedy win both the Democratic nomination and Pennsylvania's 32 electoral votes in 1960. Green got the word from the White House...
...Dilworth announced that he had no commitment "one way or the other" from Green-but was sure that Green would back him "wholeheartedly." Dilworth needs all the support he can get: the 1961 scandals in Philadelphia hurt, despite Dilworth's impressive progress in urban renewal, and there were still plenty of old-line Democrats who did not care for Mainliner Dilworth's liberal ways...
Scranton's road to his party's nomination for Governor was as tortuous, if not as rough, as Dilworth's. Last month Scranton said that he was content to run for re-election to the House, wanting to get more experience there, would consider the governorship only if he had support from all factions of the party and if his nomination would stop the bickering. Last week he got it, after a good deal of intraparty warfare from which he personally remained aloof...