Word: republicans
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...bitter medicine that Wisconsin's Republican state convention forced on aging (72) Republican Senator Alexander Wiley last May when it voted to support another candidate in the U.S. Senate primary. The G.O.P organization diagnosed Wiley's political illness as an acute case of globalitis-for Wiley, as ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had doggedly supported President Eisenhower's internationalist policies. The prescription was a ruthless purge, and the man nominated to bring it off in the primaries was Glen R. Davis, 41, a handsome, smooth-talking fifth-term Congressman who believes in the Bricker...
...Wiley was the winner, thanks principally to a heavy 20,000-vote lead in normally Democratic Milwaukee County. Total vote: Wiley 217,402; Davis 207,693. Wiley had had a close call. Of the 445,625 G.O.P. votes, Wiley's slim margin was only 10,000. A third Republican, Howard H. Boyle Jr., 35-who ran on an anti-Eisenhower platform-got 20,000 that might otherwise have gone to Davis. Nonetheless, Wiley should have no trouble in November against Democratic Nominee Henry W. Maier, 38, a state senator, who cashed in 163,336 votes in the Democratic primary...
Seeking the G.O.P. nomination for an unprecedented third term as governor, Utah's bumptious J. Bracken Lee was unexpectedly-and unceremoniously-trounced in last week's bitter Republican primary. So weary were Utah's Republicans of Lee that they chose instead-by a vote of 62,294 to 54,282-a newcomer to politics, egg-bald George Dewey Clyde, 58, whose only political recommendation was that, as commissioner of the Utah Water and Power Board, he campaigned hard and successfully for passage of the popular Upper Colorado River bill (TIME, Feb. 12 et ante...
...Washington, where primary election voters can jump party lines at will on a single ballot, Democratic candidates rolled up substantially bigger vote totals than Republicans in most statewide races, were led by affable, two-term Senator Warren G. Magnuson, 51, who, although unopposed for renomination, gathered 426,000. This was a resounding 150,000 more than his November opponent, Republican Governor Arthur B. Langlie (TIME, Sept. 3), managed to poll in his primary race. Thoroughly drubbed in the Republican gubernatorial primary: Donald W. Eastvold, Washington's ambitious young (36) attorney general, who first gained political fame...
...defeat was Utah's senior Senator, Arthur V. Watkins, who has feuded with Maverick Lee because of the latter's zany antics in opposing aid for public education, the federal income tax, and the Eisenhower Administration. Watkins denounced Lee as "the most disruptive influence in the whole Republican Party." If Kingmaker Watkins is successful in smoothing the ruffled feathers of Lee's followers by November, Clyde should win handily over Democratic Nominee Lorenzo Clark Romney in nominally Republican Utah...