"If we're going to make a comeback," Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton said recently, "we're going to have to start picking up some statehouses." Last week the Republicans took a long step toward picking up one of the U.S.'s key statehouses. After a rough-and-tumble primary fight, former Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, 60, won the Republican nomination for Governor of New Jersey, and in the process proved himself an impressive vote getter.
In winning the primary, Mitchell upset shrewd, tough Walter H. Jones, Republican leader of the state senate and the favorite of a fusty state Republican organization...
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