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Before Texas Democrats went to the polls one day last week, they witnessed one of the bitterest political campaigns in Texas' history. In the runoff primary for governor, between Governor Allan Shivers and Austin Lawyer Ralph Yarborough, the big issue was clear-cut: Yarborough, representing Democrats who stayed with the national party organization in 1952, charged that Shivers committed political treason by swinging Texas to Dwight Eisenhower...
...Arkansas' Democratic primary last month, first-term Governor Francis Cherry ran 45,000 votes ahead of his nearest opponent, Orval E. Faubus, but two other candidates received enough votes to force Cherry into a runoff. In the overtime period, the game got rough...
...majority of some 4,500. The runner-up, Fair-Dealing former Governor Sid McMath, 41, ran out of campaign funds; to pay for a final ad, his staff had to pass the hat around. McClellan's ally, Governor Francis Cherry, failed to win a majority. In the runoff he faces a McMath crony: hawk-nosed Orval Faubus, 43, former state-highway director, a self-educated, match-chewing mountaineer...
Oklahoma. Oil Wholesaler Raymond Gary, a former schoolteacher who became president pro tempore of the state senate, clinched the governorship in a runoff election. Gary ran second of 16 candidates in last month's primary, but came from behind to beat fire-breathing William Coe. Biggest upset, however, was Oklahoma's choice for lieutenant governor: Cowboy Pink Williams, 62, a rancher (1,100 acres) who virtually rode into office on a three-letter word* banned from the mails as obscene. Last summer Williams got embroiled with the Post Office for mailing 300,000 comic postcards that pictured...
Last week, after Texans marked primary ballots in sweltering 110° heat, incomplete returns gave Shivers only a 17,000-vote margin over Yarborough. The governor had been spared sudden death in the primary, but two minor candidates siphoned off enough votes to make a runoff virtually certain. Shivers was still in trouble: in six runoffs for governor in Texas, three candidates who led in the first primary have been defeated...