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More surprising, though less ominous than the Tydings defeat, was Everett M. Dirksen's victory over Scott Lucas in Illinois. Lucas, Senate majority leader, voted in favor of the McCurran anti-communist bill and toned down many of the Administration's policies when he returned home to campaign. He still lost by 250,000 votes in a state that went entirely Democratic, even for state offices...
Republican candidates well know that, since the day of Roosevelt, they have to carry downstate Illinois by big margins to offset the Democratic majorities ground out by Jake Arvey's Chicago machine.* With spellbinding oratory, Republican Dirksen banged away at Communism, Acheson, inflation and wasteful foreign programs. "Lenin said, 'Someday we are going to force the U.S. to spend itself into destruction,' " cried Dirksen. "In the name of God, what are we doing? When will we wake...
Illinois: Majority Leader Scott Lucas, who has forged ahead of ex-Representative Everett Dirksen since the landing at Inchon...
This week Illinois' campaign rattled on. Republican Dirksen, who once voted for the Marshall Plan, more recently denounced it as money poured down a "bottomless pit," hammered at "creeping socialism," at "bungling" at Yalta and Potsdam, at "appeasement, vacillation and weakness" which, he charged, led up to the Korean war. Scott Lucas went his weary, cautious way. He argued that victory in Korea had prevented World War III. He repudiated several important Fair Deal items such as socialized medicine and the Brannan Plan. The loyal and indefatigable Douglas chugged right & left in his station wagon, lifting his voice...
...closest races of the 1950 campaign, both sides were working up to an all-out effort. For Democrats and Republicans alike, Illinois was a critical battlefront. Republicans were counting on Candidate Dirksen as a top bet to pick up one of the seven seats they needed to upset Democratic control of the Senate. Next to beating Taft in Ohio, Truman Democrats were most deeply interested in saving the political hide of Majority Leader Scott Lucas...