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She motioned for me to go around to the left side of the house. She let me in a rear door and ushered me into the back porch through a swamp of unused Hartke posters, through the kitchen parlor, dining room, and finally into the living room which was the...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Vance Hartke: South Indiana Boy | 3/15/1972 | See Source »

Why was Hartke (below) courting the readers with love letters in 72-point boldface lead type? Was this just some good-ol'-down-on-the-farm-Hoosier-friendly-neighbor gesture or was Hartke actually trying to woo votes with this, shall we say, rather hokey amorous ploy? Did he actually...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Vance Hartke: South Indiana Boy | 3/15/1972 | See Source »

It was the day before the election and bright and sunny in Manchester. The car pulled over to the curb in front of Hartke-for-President headquarters. His center for campaign operations was on the main street, Elm St., but it was at least five blocks away from the center...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Vance Hartke: South Indiana Boy | 3/15/1972 | See Source »

After a brief talk, which basically consisted of having the people in charge tell me what they were doing the day before the election--cleaning out their desks and getting ready to go back home--1 left. While every other headquarters staff in the city was working double-time in...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Vance Hartke: South Indiana Boy | 3/15/1972 | See Source »

BY AND BY Vance stepped through the door to the spontaneous applause of the twenty or so Hartke supporters. Prominent in the crowd of fashionably dressed Middle Americans was Richard Dilbeck (right), Hartke's national finance chairman. With a wide grin below his painted mustache, Dilbeck said, "We spent $150...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Vance Hartke: South Indiana Boy | 3/15/1972 | See Source »

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