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...Delaware, Senator John ("Whispering Willie") Williams, the chicken-feed dealer who started the Internal Revenue Bureau scandal exposures, outran Lieut. Governor Alexis I. du Pont Bayard. Williams' standing as an exposer of corruption enabled him to overcome the formidable qualifications of Bayard, who comes from a direct line of five U.S. Senators (from his father to his great-great-great-grandfather), and whose mother is a du Pont...
...DELAWARE, Senator John J. Williams, investigator of the Internal Revenue Bureau (TIME, Oct. 13), has pulled slightly ahead of Lieut. Governor Alexis I. du Pont Bayard...
...Wilmington went Williams & Williams. George called on Frank du Pont, gave him an impressive earful about John, persuaded Du Pont to call the Wilmington Journal and say that the next Senator from Delaware was going to stop in to see the editor. A word like that from a Du Pont (provided it's the right Du Pont) goes a long way in Delaware. That afternoon Williams & Williams convinced the editor that John was senatorial timber-or at least that he was good enough to take the inevitable beating...
Last but far, far from least is Williams' opponent. Alexis Irénée du Pont Bayard, 34, a Democrat of aristocratic lineage, is a veteran with a fine combat record, a good speaker, handsome, suave, a Princeton graduate and now Delaware's hard-working lieutenant governor. Alexis Bayard's father, Thomas Bayard, was a U.S. Senator. So were his grandfather, Thomas Bayard Sr., his great-grandfather, James A. Bayard Jr., his great-uncle, Richard Henry Bayard, his great-great-grandfather, James A. Bayard Sr., and his great-great-great-grandfather, Richard Bassett (who was also...
What's more, the present Bayard's father married a Du Pont. In 1946, John Williams had the bulk of Du Pont support. This year the family is split, with some important elements backing cousin Alexis. Dopesters say that Ike is a bit ahead of Stevenson in Delaware but that Alexis is an aristocratic whisker in front of John Williams...