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...longtime Republican stronghold, wound up by giving Hughes a 49,000 majority. So it went all evening, from the slums of Jersey City to the bird-watching wards of Cape May. In all, Hughes carried 16 of the state's 21 counties and defeated Republican Challenger Wayne Dumont by 350,000 votes, the highest margin ever recorded in a New Jersey gubernatorial contest...
...Excuses. Yet as always, the G.O.P. came apart in the primary, in which Wayne Dumont, a small-town lawyer and state senator, emerged as the party's gubernatorial candidate. To the virtual exclusion of all other potential issues, Dumont seized on the case of Eugene Genovese, a Marxist profes sor of history at the state university of Rutgers, who had declared that he would welcome a Viet Cong victory in Viet Nam (TIME, Oct. 22). Dumont called on Hughes to have Genovese fired; the Governor refused, arguing that a question involving academic freedom should be settled by Rutgers...
Before the Family. Before a group of Princeton residents, the Governor angrily branded the injection of Genovese into the campaign as "the act of a desperate candidate making a cheap political issue out of free speech." Retorted Dumont: "We have 140,000 men in Viet Nam dodging bullets, and Genovese's views can only be achieved by killing Americans there. This is a question not of academic freedom but of academic license...
...Governor accused the G.O P candidate of Goldwaterism and "vampire politics," protested as a low blow his opponent's suggestion that he should defend Genovese before the family of a boy killed in Viet Nam. Campaigning in a chartered light plane, Dumont-who in fact opposed Goldwater's nomination in 1964-charged Hughes with the lowest, dirtiest, and most contemptible utterances." Said he: "I didn't know that $35,000 a year [the Governor's salary] meant so much...
Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Pennsylvania's Governor Scranton and Michigan's Governor Romney have all orated for Dumont. New Jersey's Republicans-faction-ridden and critically short of funds after twelve years in the wilderness-were hopeful that the Genovese case would sweep them back into the Governor's mansion and increase the present G.O.P. preponderance in the state legislature, where all 89 seats are up for election. "This is one issue the man in the street really understands" insists Dumont...