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Less than 48 hours ago, John R. Williams '63 predicted, "I should win the hung Republican Club election by 50 votes." Last night he gloomily watched his own political hopes dashed by Peter J. Wallison '63 by a 150 to 100 margin, and saw 12 of 13 "machine" candidates win HYRC executive board posts...
Most observers found the most surprising aspect of the election to be the wide margin of Wallison's victory, especially after Williams had waged weeks of campaigning charging Wallison with machine-support. Even Wallison had admitted, "It's a beautiful charge...
...Wallison and recording secretary Richard A. Derham '62 denied the charge of inactivity and stressed
Both candidates have attempted to play down the issue of personal political ideology in the campaign. Williams said that he and Wallison "don't disagree much" in their political philosophies, even though "Wallison has Chapman behind...
...Wallison's supporters see this considerable gap between is trying to make HYRC into a conservatives' organization, while Wallison realizes the club "should encompass all brands of Republicanism." Williams, furthermore, is generally regarded to be more extreme conservative than Wallison. At a Young Americans for Freedom meeting December 5 (both candidates are members of YAF), Williams cast the only negative vote on a resolution to express YAF's interest in securing civil rights legislation...