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Kentucky's Senate campaign also turned personal as Republican Senator Thruston Morton's backers claimed that his Democratic challenger, Lieutenant Governor Wilson Wyatt, was involved in some shady financial deals. Wyatt barked back: "Morton now is willing to scoop into the mud in order to return to high places." Republicans contended that Democratic state employees were ripping down Morton billboards. Wyatt signs were smeared with hammer-and-sickle symbols...
Republican Senator Thruston B. Morton won a narrow but decisive election victory over Wilson W. Wyatt, the Democratic nominee...
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...charges of accepting $24,918 to influence a mail-fraud case. He blandly tells his audiences: "A man is presumed innocent until he is found guilty. I'd be glad to answer any questions you might have on foreign affairs." But he seems likely to lose to Rogers Morton, 48, a strapping (6 ft. 7 in., 245 Ibs.) younger brother ot Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton. Texas Democrat J. T. ("Slick") Rutherford, who accepted a $1 500 "campaign contribution" from Billie Sol Estes shortly after setting up a meeting with Agriculture Department officials now finds himself seriously...
...Morton's side is his record as an attractive, hard-working Senator who has made a national name for himself. And soon to start actively campaigning on his behalf is the man who is by all odds Kentucky's most popular politician-Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper. Both Wyatt and President Kennedy-in his forays into Kentucky-have been careful to praise Cooper while denouncing Morton...