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Meanwhile, the Democrats, with too many candidates, were having their own problems. Jim Farley and state commerce commissioner Edward Dickinson were eliminated early. Carmine DeSapio, boss of Tammany Hall, supported New York City District Attorney Frank Hogan, while Harriman and Mayor Wagner held out for a "more liberal" man, either former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter or former AEC Commissioner Thomas Murray. In the ensuing power struggle, DeSapio won, with the aid of Buffalo Democratic leader Peter Crotty; Crotty was promptly rewarded with the nomination for Attorney General...
...first few days after the convention, it appeared that DeSapio had won the battle, but might very well have lost the election. Keating and Rockefeller immediately assailed Hogan as the tool of Tammany; the liberal wing of the Democratic Party expressed resentment; the Liberal Party (whose 200,000 votes had been decisive in electing Harriman in 1954) endorsed Hogan only reluctantly and refused to support Crotty...
...attacks on Hogan were worn down, however, by a steady dose of facts. He was an effective and popular District Attorney, receiving the support of all parties in his campaign for the office; therefore, it was rather difficult for the Republicans suddenly to condemn him. These considerations would have made him a very strong candidate, had his nomination taken place under different circumstances...
...Republicans have dropped the Tammany issue, for they probably discovered that the ogre of Tammany Hall was a real menace only to convinced Republicans and that harping on the issue would just alienate independent voters. At the same time, they have failed to hit hard at Hogan's chief weakness as a Senatorial candidate--his inexperience in national affairs...
...Joseph Barr, 40, who is helped by an unusually strong Marion County Democratic ticket. In the Ninth (Aurora) District, lone-wolf Republican Earl Wilson, 52, running as usual without help from the state G.O.P. organization, needs a good rural turnout to hold his seat against Bartholomew County Sheriff Earl Hogan, 38-In the Fifth (Kokomo) District, archconservative, teetotaling Republican John Beamer, 61, is fighting for his life against vigorous, teetotaling Huntington County Lawyer J. Edward Roush...