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Hardworking, pugnacious Maury Maverick last week got bulldogged in San Antonio's political arena. Up for re-election as mayor, Maverick was caught 1,183 votes short in the mayoralty runoff. The winner: tall, grey-haired, machine-tooled Charles Quin (TIME, May 26), the man Maverick had defeated two years...
Toward the end of the campaign Maverick was a sick man. Between rallies he stayed in a hospital, sent out copies of Henley's Invictus to assure his friends that his head was "bloody, but unbowed." But he knew he was cornered. Fortnight ago Quin had led him in the Democratic election by 1,295 votes...
...been. When the votes were counted Quin, very pleased, had 17,437, Maverick got 16,142. Some 2,000 votes for four minor candidates made a runoff necessary. Ex-Mayor Quin got more than Maverick of both the Negro and the Mexican vote. San Antonio's businessmen were for Maverick, but Maverick's New Dealism kept them from being ardent...
Shocked into action, Maverickos last week went to work again. With shouts of Arriba Maury Maverick! they rallied San Antonio's Mexicans for the runoff next week. And Maverick, fighting for his political life, appealed to his middle-class white supporters with attacks on Quin's Negro supporters, tore into Bellinger as "that black baboon" who would be more powerful than San Antonio's whites if Quin...
...while Maverickos were standing on the record, ex-Mayor Quin was buttonholing Mexicans in the Mexican district, Negroes in the Negro quarters. He had the support of Harvard-educated Negro Boss Valmo Bellinger. Quin's men made the most of San Antonio's worst riot, when Maverick insisted on permitting a Communist rally at San Antonio's auditorium, until townspeople and legionnaires broke it up in spite of the entire police and fire departments. Maverickos were sure the rally, although not forgotten, had been forgiven...