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...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...
Rival Schools. In their campaigns, both Wyatt and Morton have mined about as many votes as they can from Kentucky's most populous areas, particularly Louisville. Now they are hitting the hills and the back trails in last, desperate efforts to win the supporters who might make the difference in a dead-even race. Both do pretty well, even though both are Louisville city slickers...
...Wyatt is a high-strung, garrulous fellow who graduated with top honors from Louisville's Jefferson School of Law, at 35 became the youngest mayor in Louisville history, worked as Harry Truman's Federal Housing Administrator, helped found the red-hot liberal Americans for Democratic Action, and served as Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign manager in 1952. He is now Kentucky's lieutenant governor...
...people of Kentucky share my views on how best to meet the Communist threat. I am sure they will not send to the Senate a man whose election would give aid and comfort to his old A.D.A. friends who represent the policy of soft talk and concessions." Morton aligns Wyatt with "Leftwing Democrats" who want to "admit Red China to the U.N., do away with F.B.I. investigations and loyalty requirements for federal employees." A vote for Wyatt, says he, "is a vote of approval for those men who gave the President the advice to call off the air cover...
...Liberal Wyatt goes all the way with J.F.K., claims that Morton has a record of "neglect and opposition-opposition to better salaries for teachers, better prices for farmers, decent medical care for all our senior citizens." And Wyatt is promising roads, reservoirs, river projects, federal aid to colleges, claims that Morton so badly needs Democratic votes to win that he avoids advertising himself as a Republican...