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public relations. However, he is a Re-
publican of long standing and his father,
the late Gene Nolte, was a national
committeeman.
Upon receiving the nomination Nolte
left for a 10-day vacation in California.
He said he would campaign Texas "from
one end to th" other."
Back home in San Antonio the Re-
publicans Citizens' League demand d
Nolte's removal from the state com-
mittee, on ground that it was illegal for
him to hold that position while running
for governor.
While other faithful party men were
being rewarded with nominations to the
various state offices, the Republicans
conspicuously failed to make a nomina-
tion for commissioner of agriculture.
The incumbent and prospective Demo-
cratic nominee, J. E. McDonald, often
votes the national Republican ticket
and makes no bones about it.
Into Home Stretch
Dry weather, the price of bacon, foot-
ball prospects and new automobiles were
topics for Texans as August waned.
Then there was the governor's race be-
tween Beauford Jester and Homer
Rainey.
Somehow, the gubernatorial runoff
had not fired the public fancy. The
voters' serenity, not to say lassitude, on
the eve of Saturday's second primary
was of concern to both candidates.
Jester forces had reason to fear over-
confidence, Should it result in a light
turnout among their people at the polls.
That worry was minor, however, com-6
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pared with the worries of the opposi-
tion.
Rainey, the underdog, needed white-
hot interest in men and issues to im-
prove his chances. Matter-of-course re-
action would seem to presage a contin-
uation of the first-primary trend, which'Ko
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was not pleasing to Raineyites: 443,804
votes, 38.16 per cent, for Jester, 291,282
votes, 25.04 per cent, for Rainey.
Few 'Trailers' Have Won
State candidates have hurdled higher
humps. In 1938 political newcomer Bas-
com Giles trailed the incumbent William
McDonald by 205,873 votes in the first
primary, won the land commissioner-
ship in the second primary by 66,255
votes. Rainey's deficit: 152,582.
Fact remained that no gubernatorial
candidate ever overcame such a lead.
In six runoffs since the two-primary
system was inaugurated in 1916, trail-
ing candidates have been elected three
times-Pat M. Neff over Joseph Weldon
Bailey in 1920, Mrs. Miriam A. Fer-
guson over Felix D. Robertson in 1924,
Ross Sterling over Mrs. Ferguson in
1930. Greatest climb was by Sterling
from 170,754 votes, 20.5 per cent, to
473,371, 56 per cent. But Mrs. Ferguson's
first-primary total was only 242,959
votes, 29 per cent.
Defeated Candidates Take Stump
Ex-Texas Leaguer Homer Rainey
kept pitching to the last inning. Beau-
ford Jester, he reiterated, was the can-
didate of "monopolistic capitalism, not
the candidate of the people." Jester
preached a policy of "harmony and
progress" with no new taxes.
Attorney General Grover Sellers, a
fading third to Jester and Rainey in
the first primary, joined John Lee Smith,
another first-round victim, and Bob Cal-
vert, once a tentative candidate, on
Jester's side. Fourth-place Jerry Sadler
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