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...William Henry Harrison, won the Republican nomination, but only after a bitter primary fight with former G.O.P. State Chairman Ewing T. Kerr. Wyoming's tourist business is down about 15% and retail business is off about 10%. A drought has grown worse, and Democratic Candidate Joseph O'Mahoney, a veteran of 10 years in the Senate who was swept out of office by the Eisenhower landslide, is finding the parched grazing lands a fertile political asset...
...Mahoney has found other potent issues in an appropriations cutback for Glendo Dam and in an Interior Department decision to sell North Platte River water stored in Kendrick project to downstream users in Nebraska (he took credit for getting the latter decision modified). Campaigning last week at Powell,, Wyo.,near the Shoshone Reservoir and Heart Mountain Reclamation Project, O'Mahoney invoked two national heroes in attacking Republican power policies. Said he: "The Shoshone project was conceived by Buffalo Bill . . . who organized a company to distribute the water. It soon became apparent, however, that private capital was inadequate...
...long delay in settling the outcome of the Democratic primary was due to a close vote and Maryland's county-unit system. Initial returns gave Byrd 80 unit votes to 72 for his opponent, Paving Contractor George P. Mahoney, who contested the election, concentrating on two counties whose seven units would have brought him victory. Last week, when the Maryland Court of Appeals upheld the validity of the contested Byrd ballots in the two counties, Mahoney conceded...
...bitter dispute would not help Curly Byrd's long-shot chances of unseating McKeldin. In 1950 McKeldin's victory was attributed to the votes of Mahoney backers who crossed over into the Republican column...
Power Politics. McKay's partnership power policy is a hot issue in several states. In Kentucky, concern for TVA could defeat Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper, although he does not share his party's position. In Wyoming, ex-Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney is trying to come back with an all-out attack on McKay. In Idaho, where Hell's Canyon is a burning issue, some pro-McKay candidates lost last week's primaries. In Montana, Fair-Dealing Senator James Murray is campaigning against McKay rather than his opponent. In Washington, two Republican Congressmen (Walt...