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Last week, after two decades, Denver threw Old Ben and his creaky machine out of office and replaced him with dark-haired, baby-faced Attorney J. (for James) Quigg Newton...
...publisher of the Denver Post, backed him editorially. So, to Denver's surprise, did the Post's archenemy, the Rocky Mountain News. Most of the city's railway brotherhoods were for him. So were most of its C.I.O. unions, 300 of 412 Republican precinct committeewomen. Quigg Newton's campaign was a model of politeness. Instead of berating Old Ben (Denver wasn't exactly mad at him, it was just tired of him) Newton simply called for change...
...landslide total of 79,581 votes, while Old Ben ran a bad third with only 17,581. In voting Newton into office, Denver citizens not only rid themselves of machine government, but unlocked state politics as well-Old Ben had been a dominant influence for years. Denver also showed discrimination in voting for bond issues-it rejected a new art museum, a concert hall, a plan to expand the zoo, but approved improvement and expansion of its airport, its water system, its general hospital. It shrewdly made sure that its city charter, basis of Old Ben's power, would...
Said a Denver vegetable-stand proprietor: "We did some smart voting for once. We voted in that nice young Newton-then we fixed it so Young Quigg can't get to be Old Quigg, like Old Ben done...
Sherman H. Hawkins, of 118 Common Street, Walpole, a graduate of Walpole High School. Martin Karplue, of 259 Otis Street, West Newton, a graduate of Newton High School...