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...only the Republicans would nominate a progressive such as Duff or Stassen...
Silver-haired Governor Luther Youngdahl was the Republican Party's shiniest star in Minnesota. He had been twinkling brightly ever since former Governor Harold E. Stassen picked him off the state supreme court bench in 1946, persuaded him to run for governor. He was sometimes too radical for conservatives in his party, but when they opposed him he went to the people and won. Minnesota political pundits thought he could beat anybody for any office in the state, expected him to be re-elected for a fourth term in 1952 and to beat Democrat Senator Hubert Humphrey...
...will inherit the governor's chair is C. Elmer Anderson, 39, the lieutenant governor, a moonfaced, mediocre politician from Brainerd (pop. 12,558). The Stassen forces thought so little of Elmer that back in 1942, when Governor Stassen was about to go in the Navy, they put up Ed Thye against Anderson, so that Thye would be governor when Stassen left. Now Thye is a U.S. Senator and up for re-election next year. He and Anderson would be embarrassing teammates on a ticket...
When word of Youngdahl's appointment got out, Stassen cried foul: "A typical Truman trick." The advantages to Truman, Humphrey & Co. were clear, but why had Youngdahl accepted? He tried to explain to reporters: "The emotional and physical strain of holding the position as chief executive of a great state . . ." but he said it more plainly when a newsman wondered whether to address him as governor or judge. Said 55-year-old Luther Youngdahl: "I've had both titles. Judge sounds pretty good to me-and it lasts longer...
...Actually Eisenhower had dropped about 8% in popularity among the Republicans, but Bob Taft, the No. 2 man, had not gained. What Ike lost was divided up between New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey (16%), who announced last fall without qualification that he was an Ike man; Stassen (10%), who says he is also for the general; and California's Earl Warren (13%) who isn't saying...