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...West, where Nixon won 10 of 13 states in 1960, the party is still gen erally healthy, despite spotty problems: > In Idaho, a strong Republican organization under Governor Robert Smylie is working, not only to hold the governorship, but to knock Democrat Frank Church out of the Senate. Church has been unable to bring Idaho any new starts on reclamation projects in the past two years. (The state has had at least one start every year since 1906.) > Alaska's Democratic Governor William Egan is vulnerable, since he has been caught in a sectional crossfire over moving the state...
Pennsylvania has the fattest patronage payroll in the U.S.: some 55,000 jobs for whichever political party elects its Governor. Largely because the spoils are so sweet, Pennsylvania's Democrats and Republicans have for years fought bitterly among themselves and with each other. This year, with both the governorship and a U.S. Senate seat at stake in November, the scrambling has been at its height...
Scranton's road to his party's nomination for Governor was as tortuous, if not as rough, as Dilworth's. Last month Scranton said that he was content to run for re-election to the House, wanting to get more experience there, would consider the governorship only if he had support from all factions of the party and if his nomination would stop the bickering. Last week he got it, after a good deal of intraparty warfare from which he personally remained aloof...
...Real Issue. Romney's Mormonism became an open issue in Michigan when he fasted and prayed before announcing for the governorship. Cried Gus Scholle, president of Michigan's A.F.L.C.I.O.: "This business of trying to put on an act of having a pipeline to God in order to become Governor of Michigan is about the greatest anticlimax to a phony stunt that I've ever seen." Democratic Governor John Swainson rebuked Scholle, and reminded the public that he himself had been until World War II a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
...gnarled, homespun sort who has prospered by doing what most politicians don't. In 1959, as secretary of state, he asked the Wyoming legislature to cut his department's budget; it did, but even so, Gage did not spend all the money. Succeeding to the governorship last year to fill out an unexpired term, Gage confounded Wyoming boosters who were fond of claiming dramatic population growth for the state. Said he: "This is just not true, since among the continental states we happen to rank next to the bottom. In my thoughts alone, this is somewhat...