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...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...
...Last week the Democratic National Committee, facing up to the danger, named House Speaker Sam Rayburn to lead the Texas campaign for Stevenson and Sparkman...
...Representative Wright Patman, going all out for Stevenson and Sparkman, was making plans to stump the state...
...Washington radio chief, Lou Frankel: "As we book our man on speeches around the country, we can fit him into the radio & TV time already purchased." The Democratic program is simple: there is only one star, and such supporting players as Harry Truman and Vice Presidential Candidate John Sparkman will get only a minimum share of the limelight. Of Adlai Stevenson, Frankel says: "He's our John Barrymore, our biggest radio & TV asset...