KENTUCKY: Golden Swill

"If you want to swap all you're getting now from the Federal Government for a set of balanced budget books down in Washington, then vote for Happy Chandler. But if you want 10 keep on getting what you're getting, and get some more, too, then vote to keep me in the Senate." —Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley at Lowes Crossroads, Ky.

"I'll get more for you in six years than ol' Alben got you in 26 years." —Governor Albert B. Chandler at Mayfield, Ky.

Such was the political hog-wallow to which Kentucky's two leading...

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