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...full force behind Senatorial Candidate Howell, a gangling (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.) three-term Congressman from Trenton. The key man in the organization is not Howell (whose pet project on Capitol Hill has been the establishment of a Federal Fine Arts Commission), but New Jersey Governor Robert Meyner...
Ever since he swept in as governor in 1953, Meyner has been skillfully rebuilding the Democratic state organization. Unlike Democrat Boss Hague, who ran his machine as a one-city, one-county operation, Meyner is building a statewide coalition of county leaders. Although he has more patronage at his disposal than most other governors in the U.S., Meyner has doled it out sparingly. This year he has let local leaders know that the way to get more is to work hard for Charlie Howell. Following that skillfully operated political rabbit, the county men are working and running like hungry hounds...
...campaign moves on, Meyner's "investigators" are ladling out aromatic tidbits of past Republican scandals. Meyner has scheduled more than 40 campaign speeches. It is obvious that he considers this an important election for himself. He wants his own Democratic Senator in Washington, and he wants a powerful state organization. An ambitious man, he has his long-range telescope carefully trained on the Democratic National Convention of 1956, where he believes there will be a demand for a powerful and successful governor for either one place or the other on the national ticket...
...point, Schlesinger said, "For Democrats to make concessions because the press is hostile to them is to be disloyal to the Democratic party. Hope lies in the fearless, courageous leadership of various state leaders like Averell Harriman in New York, Ed Muskie in Maine, Bob Meyner in New Jersey, and Mennen Williams in Michigan...
...South Amboy Trust Co., which Hoffman helped to found and direct and which thrived on state funds, claimed that certificates of a $300,000 state deposit were forged. Apparently Hoffman had embezzled $300,000 in state funds to cover his takings, but that was not all. Governor Meyner suspended four state officials, released 44 pages of detailed charges indicating that the scandal spread far into Jersey politics. Sample charges: ¶ Hoffman deposited $3,427,000 of state money without interest in the Trenton Trust Co., run by his friend and. fellow Republican, Mrs. Mary Gindhart Roebling (whose late husband...