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East of the Mississippi, Ike took everything in sight-and he helped many another Republican candidate to victory: e.g.,in Illinois, Republican Senator Everett Dirksen and G.O.P. Governor William Stratton would have been beaten had it not been for the Eisenhower coattails. It was in the Northeast that Republicans made their greatest House gains...
Illinois: Ike handily. G.O.P. Governor William Stratton, still plagued by Republican state scandals, needs help against Democrat Richard Austin. Republican Senator Everett Dirksen is in a hard race, but favored over Democrat Richard Stengel...
...Democrats, however, Austin's merits go beyond that. Their hope of unseating Governor William G. Stratton lies chiefly in splattering him (although he was not involved) with the scandal in which former Republican State Auditor Orville E. Hodge succeeded in looting the treasury of more than $1,000,000 (TIME, July 30 et ante). To do this they are in need of a fierce and able prosecutor. In small (5 ft. 41n.), stern-faced Judge Austin, who assisted in prosecuting some notable crime cases in his years as assistant state's attorney, they hope they have found their...
...landed him a 12-to-15-year sentence in the state penitentiary for stealing more than $1,000,000 from the treasury through a warrant (state check) cashing dodge. Democratic leaders joyfully looked forward to using the Hodge case in their campaign to defeat Republican Governor William G. Stratton. Then, suddenly, the wind changed...
Treasurer Herbert C. Paschen (rhymes with fashion)-hand-picked by Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley to run against Stratton this fall. The Chicago Sun-Times, sniffing for new leads in the Hodge case, fingered the county treasurer's chief deputy, John E. Sullivan, for suspicious connections with two banks through which Hodge had done his double-dealing. Paschen fired the man. Then the news paper revealed the existence of a Herbert C. Pashen Employees Association "welfare fund" in the treasurer's office-made up by contributions from banks where county money was on deposit. Some...