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...show a glittering entry of hardy challengers, the outstanding challenger of them all is the Republican candidate for Governor of Michigan, a polio-crippled professor of speech from Michigan State University, Paul Douglas Bagwell, 47. To succeed retiring Soapy Williams, the Democrats have selected blond, boyish John Swainson, 35, Michigan's lieutenant governor, who is the handpicked choice of the U.A.W. The candidates are attractive, the issues are sharp, and Michigan's election shapes up as 1960's hottest state race...
...Cats." National campaign patterns are reversed in Michigan: Republican Bagwell is attacking the incumbent administration, Democrat Swainson is defending it. Bagwell charges that Soapy Williams' high-taxing and labor-leaning administration has scared off employers, swelled Michigan's unemployment (current rate: 6.3%). Asks Bagwell: "Does anyone believe that re-election of a Democratic state administration, with its uncompromising attitude and continual emphasis on political war between labor and industry, can get the 100,000 jobs a year that our people need?" Democrat Swainson sounds not unlike Republican Richard Nixon as he defends the record of the state administration...
...U.A.W., driving hard for the Democrats, has contributed strategists, speech-writers and great financial support to Swainson. And in a state where memories of the skull-cracking industrial disputes of the '30s are still vivid, union politicians are not above fanning class strife. Says an A.F.L.-C.I.O. pamphlet circulating in Michigan: "The people voting against you are the bankers, the merchants, the car dealers, the big industries, the utilities-all the fat cats who make money whether you have...
...politically pivotal state of Michigan (20 electoral votes), a Detroit News poll of voters gave Kennedy the lead over Nixon by 52.7% to 46.4%. Among Roman Catholics, Democrat Kennedy drew 79.7% of the vote, and Democratic Senatorial Incumbent Pat McNamara got nearly as much, while Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate John Swainson (a Protestant) got 69.6%-in short, a difference of 10% between Democratic candidates of different religions...
Democrats nominated a protégé of Soapy's who was not the betting favorite. Lieutenant Governor John Burley Swainson, a boyish-looking 35, lost both legs below the knees on an Army night patrol in France during World War II when a land mine blew up under him. The victory of another legless veteran, Republican Charles Potter, who got elected to the U.S. Senate from Michigan in 1952, encouraged Swainson to enter politics despite his handicap. He beat out favored Secretary of State James Hare by a decisive 70,000 votes...