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...Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles. In Alabama, Lurleen Wallace is facing an increasingly liberal Attorney-General Richmond Flowers. In contrast, it is impossible to find such differences between the two Democrat Senatorial candidates in Michigan, former (1949-1960) Governor G. Mennen Williams and Detroit's Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh...
Williams and Cavanagh are both solid supporters of the Administration's domestic programs; they both rather uneasily back the President's conduct of the war in Vietnam. The real difference between them is one of style and the way they look at politics. The difference between them is distinct to the politicians backing each candidate. Virtually all Michigan Democratic leaders favor Williams, while official Washington is generally rooting for Cavanagh. Only the sentiments of Michigan voters remain a mystery...
...style difference can best be understood by thinking of Williams as a Fifties liberal and Cavanagh as a Sixties Liberal. These labels correspond to years in which the candidates' political perspective--and that of their followers--was shaped. Williams was first elected Governor in an upset in 1948 and retained office only after thorough recounts in 1950 and 1952. Throughout his six terms he faced hostile Republican legislatures, whose conservatism can hardly be made comprehensible today. The Republican legislators were not Goldwater-like ideologues with sleek suburban backgrounds, but simple small-town businessmen who saw no use for government above...
When Soapy Williams left Michigan to become Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Jerry Cavanagh was a completely unknown 32-year-old Detroit lawyer. His election as Mayor in 1961 was an even greater surprise than William's victory in 1948, and it left Cavanagh owing little to Williams and the Fifties Liberals, some of whom opposed him. As a nonpartisan Mayor with few debts, Cavanagh was free to make a different kind of record and form a different political outlook. His major achievements--improvement of police-Negro relations, a city income tax, and an imaginative anti-poverty program...
Asking Michiganders to reject "old sentiments and past alliances," Cavanagh declared: "There is a new generation of political leadership. New men and new ideas are needed urgently to meet the problems of the new decade...