Word: mckaye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helping the Republican Party recapture Congress. He was active in persuading Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie to run against Senator Warren Magnuson, in talking Assistant State Secretary Thruston Morton into trying for the Senate seat now held by Kentucky's Earle Clements, in arranging for Interior Secretary McKay to hit the Oregon trail against Wayne Morse. Among incumbent Republican Senators who can expect Ike's direct aid are Pennsylvania's Duff, Connecticut's Prescott Bush and Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley...
...nearly so well known in Oregon as McKay, Phil Hitchcock nevertheless has a wide acquaintanceship built up through his work for the college and the Presbyterian Church, his fraternal (Kiwanis, Masons) activities and two terms in the state senate. Now he is moving across the state in a small plane lent him by his brother Maurice, a White Swan, Wash. sawmill owner, making as many as 14 appearances...
With its overtones of orders from Washington, McKay's last-minute announcement caught many Oregon Republicans off guard, and created some resentment. Some of McKay's old friends who had lined up behind Hitchcock refused to switch. Objecting to the "commissioning" of a candidate in Washington, the Salem Oregon Statesman (circ. 18,646), published by former Governor Charles A. Sprague, an erstwhile McKay supporter, has come out foursquare for Hitchcock. The dangers in this situation are not lost on McKay. Says he: "You'd think I was a carpetbagger coming here from Washington instead of the grandson...
Another Morse? In most of their campaigning, both Hitchcock and McKay have turned their fire on Morse and have been polite to each other. But occasional sharp notes have begun to creep in. Some friends of McKay have been looking at Hitchcock's record, and are saying that "the issue is whether we want to nomi nate another Wayne Morse." Says Hitchcock guardedly, in a state where Democrats have made the McKay-approved Hells Canyon dam project a symbol of "giveaway": "My activities as an Eisenhower Republican will not be tied to the policies of one controversial department...
This week, as the campaign rushed to a climax, Champion McKay was still ahead. But Challenger Hitchcock was running better than anyone thought he would...