For years national Democratic leaders dreamed of welding the U.S. farm and labor votes together in a solid, dependableand unbeatableunit of the Democratic Party. They were never quite able to make it stick. But this month's elections indicate that the dream may have come true in at least one state. The state: Minnesota. The welder: U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey.
Running as a Democrat-Farmer-Laborite against a worthy Republican opponent, Humphrey won re-election by a thumping 118,000 votes. He carried with him the entire Farmer-Labor ticket, including his own protégé, Orville Freeman, who will...
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