Last week Michigan buzzed with candidates for public office. Republican Senator Homer Ferguson graced a Bay City fish fry. His Democratic opponent, Patrick McNamara, until recently a local leader of the pipe fitters' union, gazed with admiring eye on a St. Clair County plowing contest. Democratic Governor G. Mennen Williams was out exercising the charm that had won him the title (bestowed by a Republican) of "the Liberace of Michigan politics." His Republican rival, Lawyer Donald Leonard, politicked from Owosso to Kalamazoo.
Republicans in Michigan, as elsewhere, are banking heavily on President Eisenhower's personal popularity. They must fight off criticism...
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