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Johnson would run against ten other candidates in the July 24 Democratic primary. His most formidable opponent was 60-year-old ex-Governor Coke ("Calculatin' Coke") Stevenson, a conservative states-rights man. Coke's supporters offered to put him into a plane, too, but Coke replied, after a hard bite on his pipestem: "No, thanks. I'll keep my campaign down to earth...
...intention of making his sixth campaign for the Senate. "Young Bill" White, son of Emporia's late sage, was sure he knew why: Alf Landon had put him up to it to bleed votes from Capper's rival in the primary and Landon's archfoe, ex-Governor Andrew Schoeppel. White said so in an Emporia Gazette editorial. In a tearful statement, Capper replied that Young Bill was mistaken; the decision to run was "mine and mine alone...
...Ohio's ex-Governor Frank Lausche (rhymes with how-she), the Democrats' best vote-getter in the Midwest, returned to the wars. Opposed by the state's Dem ocratic machine (including Harry Truman's new Commerce Secretary, Charles Sawyer), he won his gubernatorial primary handily. He will oppose Republican Governor Thomas J. Herbert, who beat him by a whisker...
...progressed in organization and ability one half as fast as we had expected it would" and it is now necessary to "fall back on arms for safety," the ex-governor said...
Last week Louisiana went to the polls and cast a record primary vote which gave Earl Long a better than 100,000 margin over his nearest rival, "Sad" Sam Jones. Ex-Governor Jones had stood on the more prosaic platform of "good government...