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Kentucky's Senate campaign also turned personal as Republican Senator Thruston Morton's backers claimed that his Democratic challenger, Lieutenant Governor Wilson Wyatt, was involved in some shady financial deals. Wyatt barked back: "Morton now is willing to scoop into the mud in order to return to high places." Republicans contended that Democratic state employees were ripping down Morton billboards. Wyatt signs were smeared with hammer-and-sickle symbols...
Republican Senator Thruston B. Morton won a narrow but decisive election victory over Wilson W. Wyatt, the Democratic nominee...
...presumed innocent until he is found guilty. I'd be glad to answer any questions you might have on foreign affairs." But he seems likely to lose to Rogers Morton, 48, a strapping (6 ft. 7 in., 245 Ibs.) younger brother ot Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton. Texas Democrat J. T. ("Slick") Rutherford, who accepted a $1 500 "campaign contribution" from Billie Sol Estes shortly after setting up a meeting with Agriculture Department officials now finds himself seriously threatened in his 300-mile-wide district by Republican Ed Foreman, an Odessa businessman who brings up Billie...
...under Senior Editor Champ Clark, has focused on races in Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania. New York, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Kansas, Connecticut and Massachusetts. This week we take another look at Nixon and Brown in California, at George Romney's race in Michigan, and at the battle between Wilson Wyatt and Thruston Morton in Kentucky. Through these reports we try to catch the variety and divergencies of a wide country. In Nebraska as well as in the South there are Dem ocrats careful not to identify themselves with Kennedy; in Michigan and New York, among other places, there are Republican candidates...
...McKee, a tiny town in the Wilderness Trail country, Republican Senator Thruston Morton got out of a borrowed yellow Cadillac, mingled with tobacco-chewing men in bib overalls. It was beastly hot, and sweat dripped from Morton's face. He was gracious, but seemed much more reserved than Wyatt. The group moved inside the dilapidated courthouse. A trial was in session, but the judge ordered a recess so that Morton could speak. He was introduced by a local orator: "We're a workin' people, we're a God-fearin' people, we're a peace...