Word: district
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special congressional election in Iowa's Fourth District was important enough to bring Governor Herschel Loveless hurrying down from Des Moines. Loveless, the leading Democrat in a state that was once a Republican stronghold, had a big point to prove: the Democrats are in the Farm Belt to stay. To Loveless, the whole election turned on one big question. "Ezra Benson is the only issue in the campaign," he cried. "Benson is Republicanism...
Last week Republicanism won. In a heavy turnout for an odd-year election, the voters of the Fourth District gave the Republican candidate, John Kyi, 40, their approval by a solid 2,532 plurality over his Democratic rival, C. (for Charles) Edwin Gilmour, 41. The election fascinated politicos for two reasons: 1) the Fourth District, with a large population of corn-hog farmers and smaller but important groups of factory workers and merchants, is a good litmus for testing the trends of the Farm Belt; 2) only a year ago the district sent the first Democrat in its history...
...embattled Agriculture Secretary was, as Loveless sensed, a big factor in the campaign. The Fourth District's farmers have been hit by falling prices,* and they reflect accurately the national discontent with the Benson farm program. Kyi, an attractive, articulate TV newscaster and clothing merchant, was careful to dissociate himself from Ezra Benson: "Please note that I do not run the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Mr. Benson most certainly is not a candidate in this district." But Democrat Gilmour, associate professor of political science at Grinnell College and a hardworking, handshaking campaigner, poured it on: "A vote...
Next day came the brightening. The voters in Iowa's Fourth District elected a Republican to fill the unexpired term of a Democratic Congressman who had died in office (see below), and the outcome seemed to show that simply denouncing Benson is not quite so surefire a method of winning farm belt elections as Democrats had hoped-and Republicans had feared...
...strains come from the division among the parties of Cabinet posts, state governorships and autonomous state institutes, e.g., social security. Villalba's U.R.D., for example, complained loudly that the A.D. had taken the lion's share and that the U.R.D. deserved the governorship of the federal district, including Caracas, because in the election it won three times more votes there than the A.D. (But Betancourt gave the post to a nonpartisan friend...