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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...
John Crowe Ransom: "One of the most elegant and individual war correspondents who ever existed of our world's old war between power and love . . . Generations of the future will be reading his poems page by page with Wyatt, Campion, Marvell and Mother Goose...
Republican Senator Thruston B. Morton won a narrow but decisive election victory over Wilson W. Wyatt, the Democratic nominee...
...Ankleblankets." Working to Wyatt's advantage is a 2-to-1 statewide Democratic registration lead, plus the support of Kentucky's two biggest newspapers, the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times. Working against him is the longtime enmity of former Governor "Happy" Chandler, who, in charging that Wyatt used to wear spats, likes to call him "Old Ankleblankets." Fellow Democrat Chandler, who plans to run again for Governor next year, remains a Kentucky power, and he has not lifted a hand to help Wyatt...
...side is his record as an attractive, hard-working Senator who has made a national name for himself. And soon to start actively campaigning on his behalf is the man who is by all odds Kentucky's most popular politician-Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper. Both Wyatt and President Kennedy-in his forays into Kentucky-have been careful to praise Cooper while denouncing Morton...