Word: populists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many, Morse represents Oregon's populist past--the rugged, individualistic Oregon of loggers and pioneer farms along the Willamette. "He is the Oregon all Oregonians cherish," one Morse campaign official said yesterday. "They don't want to vote against their own heritage...
...terms in the House and three in the Senate have made Monroney a fixture, but one not really plugged into the sockets of power. A populist liberal of impeccable reputation, Monroney has chosen to be an expert rather than a force. His efforts to reorganize Congress have largely gone by the board. He is chairman of the Senate's Post Of fice and Civil Service Committee and is known as "Mr. Aviation" because of his continued-and unheeded-warn ings about America's crowded sky. Intelligent and hardworking, he is the quiet antithesis of Oklahoma's flamboyant...
Nonetheless, the lackluster or extremist quality of his opponents is likely to ensure Fulbright a fifth term. One candidate, Foster Johnson, 53, campaigns wearing a sandwich board "so nobody will have any trouble knowing who I am." Another, Bobby K. Hayes, 37, preaches an isolationist populist program that includes such unlikely reforms as a $2.50-an-hour minimum wage and elimination of capital gains taxes. Fulbright's strongest adversary is former State Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson, 44, an avowed segregationist whose extremism as the Dem ocratic nominee for Governor in 1966 helped make Winthrop Rockefeller Arkansas' first...
Party spokesmen have also tried to neutralize Wallace's appeal by attacking his record of "socialist welfare measures" in Alabama. When Wallace told an audience that he considers himself "a populist," the Republican state chairman in Georgia said that just means he is "a socialistic racist...
...first learned the art of politics-has dominated Texas for generations. But if the state lacks a genuine two-party system, it does have a highly active two-party party. Next year, in the vacuum that Connally will leave, liberal Democrats led by the Governor's bitter enemy, Populist-minded Senator Ralph Yarborough, have hopes of breaking the conservative hegemony in Austin. Lamented one Connally partisan: "We just don't have anybody who can keep the thing together...