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...choice before the Democrats of Texas seemed simple enough. In a runoff primary for Governor they could select John Connally, 45, an avowed conservative. Or they could choose Don Yarborough, 36, a Houston lawyer who is about as liberal as Texans get. But in its final days the fight got so nasty that the selection no longer seemed simple...
This was eleven days after Rutherford had helped set up and had attended a meeting between Estes and Agriculture Department officials in Washington. At that session, the department agreed to postpone its cancellation of Estes' cotton allotments. Also at the meeting was Texas' Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, who has admitted getting some $7,500 in political contributions from Estes-all, he says, before the meeting...
Also spattered by the Estes case was Texas' liberal Democratic Senator Yarborough. He admitted that he had received some $7,500 from Estes as political contributions, including $1,700 to help defray the cost of broadcasts he had made in Texas. These contributions did not seem extraordinary-but what did seem strange was the evidence that Yarborough had used lots of influence to help Estes out of his difficulties with the Agriculture Department...
...Yarborough's showing was a surprise. A Louisiana-born Marine veteran of World War II and Korea, Yarborough was little known in Texas politics. He had run only once before, in 1960, when he got whipped for lieutenant governor. Now, as the only liberal and unqualified Kennedy supporter in the field, he got labor backing. He also took home-town Houston handily. And a lot of Texans confused him with U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough, who is no kin (by the same token, some voters mistakenly supposed that Connally was related to former Senator Tom Connally). Yarborough, as a result...
...strength of his primary showing and conservative platform, Connally is favored to win the June 2 runoff; one person who will do his best to see that he does is Vice President Lyndon Johnson, whose power at home hangs on a Connally victory. Yarborough tried to stir support by challenging Connally to a television debate. Connally cannily turned down the dare, whereupon Yarborough exploded: "The great Governors of the past, such as Sam Houston, Jim Hogg and Jimmy Allred. would have never placed their tails between their legs and slunk away from the challenge...