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...hand, not all sided with Kennedy and Douglas. On the key motion to substitute Kennedy's broad proposals for Harry Byrd's limited aims. Kennedy lost Arizona's Carl Hayden. Alabama's Lister Hill and John Sparkman, Oklahoma Millionaire Robert Kerr and Texas' Ralph Yarborough...
With that, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Texas' Junior Senator Ralph Yarborough swung into action on Capitol Hill, asked Congress to help in curbing "uncontrolled" oil imports. Said Texan Yarborough: "The situation for our independent producers has become a one-way street leading to oblivion." Johnson announced that he had word that President Eisenhower himself would intervene in the case to curb oil imports "threatening national security...
...Yarborough campaign headquarters in Austin, his supporters whooped it up as the good news came in, reached their peak when they read a congratulatory telegram from Songstresses Patience and Prudence, whose Texan uncles helped Senator-elect Yarborough's campaign. They talked of sending off a wire to conservative Democrat Daniel, who is no Yarborough fan, simply quoting that line from the P. and P. hit record: "So long my honey, goodbye my dear, gonna get along without...
...placed third. Second, with 291,106 votes, Democratic Congressman Martin Dies, a segregationist and onetime Red hunter, whose conservatism runs so deep that he had labeled Republican Hutcheson a "federal-righter." The combined Republican and conservative-Democrat vote gave Hutcheson and Dies about half a million votes, while Liberal Yarborough got 363,834 votes, 38% of the close to million-vote total. Yarborough had actually won with fewer votes than he had polled in any of his earlier, losing gubernatorial campaigns...
...results showed that 1) Texas Republicanism is still clearly in the minority, and 2) despite Liberal Yarborough's victory, conservatism is still the dominant political force in Texas. Editorialized the do-or-Dies Dallas Morning News: "Yarborough the liberal can no more win the 1958 senatorial nomination than he could in three unsuccessful tries for governor, unless Texas Democratic thinking changes materially...