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...Candidate Estes Kefauver the New Jersey apple appeared sweet and ripe and ready for picking. Adlai Stevenson was not entered in the New Jersey primary, and Kefauver, who specializes in trouncing state organizations, saw little to fear in the unpledged slate of delegates headed by Governor Robert Meyner and representing the New Jersey regulars. By so underestimating Robert Baumie Meyner, Kefauver got his apple, all right. But it was bitter and overripe and thrown right in his face...
...Jersey Kefauver waged one of his patented, tireless, poorboy campaigns, seeking the voters' help in his underdog battle against the state "machine." But Bob Meyner refused to get mad. Although he privately describes Kefauver in lurid terms, Meyner invited Estes to a personal meeting, chatted pleasantly for 40 minutes, said kind things ("He has a style of campaigning which I like to think is my style of campaigning"). Meyner blandly denied that his organization was trying to impose its will on the voters. Said he: "I am not one of those who think that leadership is synonymous with bossism...
...Meyner's strategy-that of preventing a big sympathy vote for Kefauver-paid off. Last week when the votes were counted, Estes Kefauver won precisely one-half of one delegate vote-and that by a voting-machine fluke. The Meyner slate took the other 35½. Kefauver did little better in New Jersey's preferential vote. Running unopposed on the Democratic ballot, he received 110,000 votes against 329,000 for President Eisenhower on the Republican side...
...Estes Kefauver had every cause to be pleased with his progress. Though he insisted (and local dopesters agreed) that he was still running second to Stevenson in Florida, he had clearly made inroads in Adlai's strength there. And while New Jersey still looked safe for Governor Robert Meyner's slate in the April 17 primary, it was noteworthy that Meyner huddled with Estes for 40 minutes behind closed doors and was careful to show him every mark of public amity, including a joint press conference. Said Kefauver's Campaign Manager F. (for Florence) Joseph Donohue...
Indiana, where no other candidate has filed. In New Jersey, where a slate of Kefauver delegates will oppose an uncommitted slate headed by Governor Robert Meyner in the April 17 primary, Kefauver men were laying out a busy, five-day campaign schedule for their candidate. Governor Meyner, who has been reported leaning to Stevenson, but is anxious to escape the fate of Minnesota's Stevenson-supporting Governor Orville Freeman, invited the Senator from Tennessee to lunch...