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Across Texas, the political billboards were coming down. Six Democrats had been campaigning for Governor-but now, after a primary in which more than 1,400.000 voters turned out, the field was down to two. On June 2, former Navy Secretary John Connally, 45, and Houston Lawyer Donald Yarborough, 36, will collide again in a runoff...
Adlai Stevenson and other Democratic notables. The Kennedy picture was inscribed: "For Billie Sol Estes, with appreciation and warm regards." Still friendlier was the inscription on the photo of Texas' liberal Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough: "To a great friend, a true Texan, a grand American-Billie Sol Estes, of Pecos. with warm appreciation...
...remaining four candidates are galloping off in all directions. State Attorney General Will Wilson. 49, charged that Connally was Johnson's stooge and (without proving it) that Daniel has made a mint out of questionable real estate deals while Governor. Houston Lawyer Donald Yarborough, 36. claims the support of labor. Former Highway Commissioner Marshall Formby, 50, is a conservative, PRESIDENT-GENERAL DUNCAN Young, but not quite new. but he seems to be a blazing liberal compared to the sixth man in the race: former Army Major General Edwin A. Walker, 52, who vows that he will turn Texas into...
Wildest Battle. The Texas Democratic gubernatorial primary next May figures to be the wildest battle since the Alamo. Attorney General Wilson is an announced candidate. Incumbent Governor Price Daniel is wistfully weighing his chances for an unprecedented fourth term. U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough, the leader of Texas' liberal Democratic wing, has notions about standing for the governorship. And now comes Connally-a longtime Johnson prot...
Cried Texas' Democratic Attorney General Will Wilson: "John Connally's candidacy is a move by Lyndon Johnson to oust Price Daniel, oust me, oust Senator Ralph Yarborough, and gain complete control of the state government." Wilson's charge was pretty sweeping-but he just may have been right. For the announcement last week by U.S. Navy Secretary John Connally, 44, that he was resigning from his Pentagon post to run next year for Governor of Texas certainly seemed to carry Vice President Lyndon Johnson's political fingerprints...