Word: yarborough
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...doors of the governor's mansion in Austin swinging wide open for quiet, conservative U.S. Senator Price Daniel. Home from Washington to run for the job he had always wanted, he easily outdistanced five other hopefuls, led his nearest opponent, oft-defeated Austin Attorney Ralph Yarborough, by 165,000 (TIME, Aug. 6). But Daniel did not get a majority of the votes, was forced into a runoff primary with Yarborough, and that was a different story. Yarborough picked up support from the candidates who had fallen in the first primary; after a wild race to the wire, Daniel...
Daniel hopes to woo the same conservative voters who sent Allan Shivers to Austin for three terms. Five men, so far, are opposing him; the stiffest competition will come from Ralph Yarborough, choice of the liberal Democrats. Yarborough, an Austin attorney, has lost twice to Shivers (in 1954 by only 92,000 votes), but is still a potent campaigner...
Before Texas Democrats went to the polls one day last week, they witnessed one of the bitterest political campaigns in Texas' history. In the runoff primary for governor, between Governor Allan Shivers and Austin Lawyer Ralph Yarborough, the big issue was clear-cut: Yarborough, representing Democrats who stayed with the national party organization in 1952, charged that Shivers committed political treason by swinging Texas to Dwight Eisenhower...
...speech after speech, Yarborough told Texans: "You know during that campaign the poor old Democrat donkey got kicked all over Texas, and the person kicking him the hardest was Allan Shivers. He beat that Democratic donkey until he was bleeding around the ears, and he was lame in his left hind leg . . . Nobody much wanted that donkey then, but I took him home and put him in the stable and nursed him ... By this spring you couldn't count his ribs, and his hair was shining like a silver fox. I got on that donkey and started to ride...
Last week, after Texans marked primary ballots in sweltering 110° heat, incomplete returns gave Shivers only a 17,000-vote margin over Yarborough. The governor had been spared sudden death in the primary, but two minor candidates siphoned off enough votes to make a runoff virtually certain. Shivers was still in trouble: in six runoffs for governor in Texas, three candidates who led in the first primary have been defeated...