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...Cook County Judge Otto Kerner, handpicked to run for Governor by Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine, won a smashing Illinois-wide victory. Many normally Republican newspapers endorsed him instead of plodding, scandal-splattered G.O.P. Incumbent William Stratton, trying for a third term against his own party's wishes...
Illinois. Handsomely greying Democrat Otto Kerner, 52, whose father was once a popular state attorney general, is married to the daughter of Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak (killed in Miami in 1933 by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin Roosevelt). Kerner has an impressive six-year record of his own as a reform-minded Cook County (Chicago) judge who helped revamp local judicial procedures, led a successful fight to modernize state election statutes. His key campaign promises: more aid for schools, hospitals and depressed areas downstate...
...overwhelming Kennedy landslide in Chicago was overcome by Nixon's downstate strength; Nixon had less than one per cent lead at 4:45 a.m. Senator Paul Douglas, veteran Democrat, won reeladtion, and Judge Otto Kerner, Jr. defeated Incumbent William G. Stratton in the gubernatorial race...
Illinois. Democrat Otto Kerner, 52, a matinee-idol Cook County (Chicago) judge with an impeccable record, is being matched against lackluster Republican Incumbent William Stratton, 46, trying for an unprecedented third term on a record tinged with statehouse scandal. Judge Kerner, the favorite, has endorsements from such normally Republican papers as the Peoria Journal Star and Rockford Star...
...peak efficiency. Downstate, the Republican tide is at low ebb. G.O.P. Governor William Stratton, stuck with a scandal-seared administration, split the party by insisting on running for a third term. Traditionally Republican newspapers in Peoria, Moline, Pekin and Rockford have endorsed the Democratic candidate for Governor, Otto Kerner. Republicans say their polls put Nixon ahead 54-46 and Bobby Kennedy groans, "We're behind." But Democrats may yet take Illinois...