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...cried Kansas' outgoing Republican Governor John Anderson, who did not stand for reelection. "It lost in every state. In the South, prejudice voted, not his philosophy, and in Arizona they voted hometown. These Goldwater people have got to roll over. They're beaten." Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, a former Republican National Committee chairman who paid loyal lip service to Barry during the presidential campaign, said that if the Goldwaterites don't get out of the way, "there probably will be some blood spattered around." Avoiding Labels. Barry Goldwater did not appear...
...Goldwater last week at the Michigan Republican Convention, will open a five-week 30-state national speaking tour for him early in October. Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton will plug the ticket in eight states besides his own in 31 days of speechmaking. Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton is swinging through at least a dozen states to proclaim his "wholehearted support of Goldwater and Miller...
...podium. The auditorium burst into a cacophony of catcalls, interrupted with chants of "We want Barry." Rocky gallantly persisted. "It is essential," he shouted, "that this convention repudiate here and now any doctrinaire militant minority, whether Communist, Ku Klux Klan or Bircher." The crowd booed. Chairman Thruston Morton of Kentucky angrily crashed down his gavel, but the noise dipped scarcely a decibel. Rocky snapped into the microphone: "It's still a free country, ladies and gentlemen...
...party organizer, he beefed up Republican strength in the South and he gets some of the credit for recent Republican comebacks in such cities as Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicago. Says his predecessor as National Committee chairman, Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton: "He's done an effective job, and he's done it on skin and bones. He's liquidated the party's debt. and he's run the committee well on K rations...
...Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, an old State Department hand under Ike, who has served in both branches of Congress, a former National Committee chairman, a national figure who will be even better known after his TV appearances this week as the permanent chairman of the convention...