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...senior Senator (and ranking minority member of Joe McCarthy's Senate subcommittee), learned that he had a fight on his hands in trying to get his party's endorsement for a third term in Washington. His opponent in the Democratic primary: aggressive, Fair-Dealing Sidney Sanders McMath, 41, who has been threatening to run against McClellan since the latter openly supported Governor Francis Cherry against McMath in 1950. In that primary, McMath was beaten in his try for a third term as Arkansas' governor...
...McMath announced his candidacy in a speech in which he accused McClellan of pro-Republicanism. According to McMath. McClellan has vacillated on the McCarthy controversy. Said McMath: "As long as Joe was branding Democrats as spies and traitors, our Johnny was saying, 'Go to it, Joe, sic 'em.' It was only when McCarthy turned his guns on the Republicans that your senior Senator started dragging his feet...
When Dixiecrat Laney tried to picture Sid McMath as a traitor to the South, supple Sid declared against such pet Truman projects as FEPC and compulsory health insurance, but still capitalized on his closeness to Harry Truman. Ben plaintively confessed that he had never learned "this glamour-boy, superman style of politicking," and even before primary day admitted: "He has had only 18 months in which to make political enemies. I had four full years...
Last week Arkansas voters went to the polls, by a two to one majority gave Glamour-Boy McMath his second term in office, and a feeling that the best of his career was still ahead...
...shown in the happy family strip: the shotgun killing of McMath's father by Sid's wife Anne. It happened in 1947, while McMath was prosecutor. His father, drinking heavily, had threatened Anne; a grand jury called it justifiable homicide...