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...line, but I think I see a chink of light through the line and a way to go all the way - 98 yards for a touchdown." The way was for 34-year-old "Thach" Longstreth to carry the Republican ball for mayor against hard-hitting Democratic District Attorney Richardson Dilworth...
...Statehouse in Harrisburg could only happen in Pennsylvania politics. Last February, when the state's top Democrats met in Harrisburg to select a gubernatorial candidate, Leader was just an uninvited nonentity. On the face of it, the logical Democratic candidate was Philadelphia's District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, who had given John Fine a hard fight in the gubernatorial race of 1950. But Dilworth, and his friend, Philadelphia's Mayor Joseph Clark, were embroiled in a nasty intraparty battle over a new city charter with William Green Jr., chairman of the Philadelphia Democratic committee. Under the circumstances. Dick...
...meeting adjourned in some confusion, with no candidate clearly in mind. After much bickering, regrets and elimination, the name of State Senator Leader eventually bobbed to the surface. As a Yorkman, Leader belonged to neither the Gogs of Philadelphia nor Magogs of Pittsburgh. Clark and Dilworth admired Leader's liberal views; Boss Green decided he had discovered Leader; Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence, who is also Democratic national committeeman, found him politically impeccable. Farmer Leader seemed an excellent choice to soften up the farm vote for a Democratic sweep in 1958. Thus, almost by default, George Leader...
...Philadelphia, the split in the Democratic organizations all but ruined the Democrats' good chance to win the governorship of Pennsylvania. Because he could not get a solid endorsement from the squabbling party organization at home, Philadelphia's District Attorney Richardson Dilworth has declined to run for governor. That practically assures the election of Republican Lloyd H. Wood, a lawyer and turkey farmer now serving as lieutenant governor...
Philadelphia's Democratic District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, who had helped lead the city's Democrats to power in 1951, was baffled. Said he: "I just don't understand it." Republican Leader William F. Meade, after recovering from surprise, thought it was easy to understand. Said he: "The Democratic Party lost because of its bad record of performance...