Word: hugheses
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Across the Hudson River from New York City, 90 minutes after the polls closed, it was plain that New Jersey's Democratic Governor Richard Hughes was in for a resounding victory. The returns from prosperous Bergen County, a longtime Republican stronghold, wound up by giving Hughes a 49,000...
Hughes's achievement was heightened by the fact that booming New Jersey is fundamentally a Republican state. Until last week, the Democrats had not won control of both houses of the state legislature since the 1912 election, when they swept in on Woodrow Wilson's swallowtails. This year...
No 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...
Meantime Hughes mounted a hardhitting, bountifully financed campaign, capitalized on the appeal of President Johnson, who carried New Jersey by a smashing 900,000 votes last year.
Governor Nelson Rockefeller's apparent forthcoming defeat has not yet elicited much open comment. An interesting exception is a letter sent earlier this year to Senator Javits by State Senator John Hughes of Syracuse. Hughes, the senior Republican in the Senate and a conservative, urged Javits to run for Governor...