Word: republicans
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Mooney received 763 votes, to 600 for his nearest Republican opponent. The next largest Democratic vote on the Island was for Kennedy as State Treasurer, with 578 votes. There are only about 100 registered Democrats on Nantucket...
...California, Republican Thomas Kuchel had a reputation as a nice guy and a solid but thoroughly unspectacular member of the U.S. Senate. Apart from his grip on President Eisenhower's coattails, Kuchel was hardly considered a match for fast-talking, matinee idolish Democrat Richard Richards. Last week Tom Kuchel walloped Richard Richards by more than 400,000 votes. The size of his victory indicated that he had won on his own, not on Ike's coattails. And it contradicted the maxim of latter-day fellow Californian Leo Durocher, who once said positively: "Nice guys finish last...
...Chicago's boodling, buccaneering Democratic machine, the idea of a reformer as state's attorney (county prosecutor) has long been unthinkable. Last week the unthinkable happened: Benjamin S. Adamowski, a onetime Democrat who turned Republican in protest against the machine's wide-open rule, was elected Cook County state's attorney, with his own detective force, the power of subpoena-and the personal ability and determination to give the organization some days it will never forget. In an election that saw Republicans carry Cook County for Eisenhower, for U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen and nearly all county...
...power in the G.O.P. ¶ Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 54, well schooled in the ways of diplomacy by his day-by-day, hour-by-hour conduct of U.S. affairr in the U.N., well grounded in the ways of Washington by his twelve years as Republican Senator from Massachusetts...
...secretly owned a newspaper, the German-language Illinois Staats-Anzeiger at Springfield. The contract Lincoln drew up to buy the paper left it in the hands of Editor Theodore Canisius but entitled Lincoln to take over its type and press any time the paper failed to espouse the Republican line...