Word: dirksenism
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...election himself, was campaigning hell-for-leather for his colleague, Senator Scott Lucas. To all good Democrats, the carefully creased, weary-looking Lucas was more than just another candidate. As majority leader of the Senate, he was a symbol of Democratic power. Republican ex-Congressman Everett Dirksen, who was trying to unseat him, had a good chance of doing just that. Scott Lucas had to be saved...
Robert Taft did in fact appear in western Illinois to speak a word for Dirksen and castigate the Fair Deal. He arrived by plane at the Galesburg airport, rode out to Galesburg's Drive-In Theater to address, a Sunday crowd of 5,000. Dirksen was there to make an introduction while tired Bob Taft, with enough to do to get himself re-elected in Ohio, studied his notes and yawned unabashedly...
...object was to "create a Democratic atmosphere" and to give aid to Majority Leader Scott Lucas, who badly needed it in his campaign against Republican Everett Dirksen (Lucas, no red-hot campaigner, agreed to run again only on Truman's promise of active help). By the sort of happy chance that is possible in a machine-run city, the Democrats' sho.w coincided with a civic "Jefferson Jubilee" celebrating the 150th anniversary of Jefferson's election. A nonpartisan "host committee" was organized to raise $250,000, and Democratic wards briskly funneled contributions to it. Explained "Botchy" Connors...
...pick up seven seats to win control, their best prospect was in Idaho, where Governor Charles A. Robins was expected to eliminate Glen Taylor. There was an even-money chance that Governor Jim Duff could beat Senate Majority Whip Francis Myers in Pennsylvania and that Illinois' Everett Dirksen could unseat Majority Leader Scott Lucas. Representative Richard Nixon might defeat the Democrats' Helen Douglas in California. If they could find the right candidates, the strategists had some hope of defeating New York's Lehman and Connecticut's Benton...
Then Scott Lucas was off, like the pigeon, for Washington, to spend most of the next six months on the job, while Dirksen makes hay on the hustings...