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...Missouri, Republicans hoped that the Binaggio murder would help out Forrest Donnell, who was opposed by Truman-blessed Emery Allison. But Republicans were uneasy about the safety of Indiana's Capehart and Wisconsin's Wiley, frankly worried about Iowa's Hickenlooper and Colorado's Eugene Millikin...
...Eugene Millikin, Republican from Colorado, 59, an able lawyer and one of the Senate's best tax minds. Millikin got rich on oil, and became a politician only in 1941. He is a solid, serviceable stabilizer. Witty and popular, and the Republicans' best cloakroom statesman, he commands great respect among his colleagues...
While building a reputation as a conservative Republican statesman on Capitol Hill, Colorado's able, lucid Gene Millikin had sadly neglected the first principle of the politicians' trade. Only a few Colorado voters knew their junior Senator personally; his political fences were sagging with disrepair. By last week the fact stood out like Gene Millikin's huge bald dome on a sunny day: one of the strongest Republicans in Senate councils was in for the battle of his political life...
Jubilant Democrats, to whom Millikin ranks only slightly below Ohio's Robert Taft on the list of targets for 1950, were sure they could beat him with either of two candidates. One was Colorado Governor William Lee Knous (rhymes with mouse), a lanky, homespun former mining-camp lawyer. If Knous entered the race, the conservative, Republican-tinged Denver Post reported last week (and if the results of a statewide poll held true), 65% of Colorado's voters would vote for a change; only 27% wanted to keep Gene Millikin on. Even if Knous could be sidetracked with...
...overly concerned by the pollsters findings, Millikin stoutly predicted that "any Republican candidate for the Senate in Colorado will win ... in 1950." But he was worried enough to take a tip from Ohio's Taft. Last week Gene Millikin was off on a two-week tour, renewing old friendships and cultivating new votes in his home state...