Word: sparkman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tell us about the $16,000!" yelled a man on the fringe of the crowd. "Hold the train! Hold the train!" shouted Nixon. Then he launched into a reckless, belligerent counteroffensive, blaming the "smear" on the "Communists and the crooks in the Government," and declaring that Democratic Candidate John Sparkman has his wife on the Government payroll...
...Democrats' delight at Nixon's discomfiture was prompt and predictable. Rhode Island's Senator Theodore Francis Green called on Nixon to name his contributors and tell how the money was spent. When Nixon did so, Vice-Presidential Nominee John Sparkman hinted darkly that Nixon's situation called for a congressional investigation. Candidate Adlai Stevenson said: "Condemnation without all the evidence, a practice all too familiar to us, would be wrong...
...Compromise. Shivers took the dread word back to Texas and solemnly pronounced Stevenson anathema. A rebel gleam began to shine in the eyes of Texas. But under the loyalty pledge Shivers had accepted, he was committed to do his best to get Stevenson and Sparkman on the Texas ballot. Attorney General Daniel proposed a plan which many other Democratic leaders endorsed: list Stevenson and Sparkman as the "Federal Democratic" candidates, Eisenhower and Nixon as the "Texas Democratic" candidates. That would ease the minds of born & bred Democrats who couldn't bear to step across the party line...
...when a district court last week threw out an attempt to get a "Texas Democratic" ticket on the ballot.) Shivers stayed up until 4 a.m. writing his speech to the year's second Democratic state convention, urging it to take the course it eventually took: put Stevenson and Sparkman on the ballot, but work against them...
Since the convention, Shivers has been suspended in a strange political vacuum. He is against Stevenson and Sparkman, yet he hasn't said he will vote for the Republican nominees. But he is expected to follow the pattern set by Jimmy Byrnes and Louisiana's Governor Robert F. Kennon, and announce that he will vote for Eisenhower...