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Economically, uiese voters saw little reason to respond to Howell’s populist appeal. When a tradesman is making $10 an hour, he finds it hard to become outraged over the 20-cent charge for a tollbooth telephone call. When he feels too much of his tax dollar is already going for welfare, he is not aroused by calls for hearing aids, glasses and false teeth for the elderly.
Even Howell’s attacks on industry and the utilities had little impact. Both pay good wages, and there was some thought that Howell might be about to kill the proverbial goose which lays the golden eggIndeed,
Howell’s campaign was oddly out of phase with the economic context in which it was conducted. It was a campaign which might have worked during a depression or recession. But in a time of recovery and relative prosperity, those to whom‘it was addressed had difficulty relating it to their own situation.
Charges Ill-conceived
There were a host of other factors, of course, in Howell’s defeat. His campaign never fully recovered from his illconceived and unfounded charge of a conflict of interest against Dalton.
His effort was underfinanced and understaffed. His past record left him vulnerable to charges that he had, at one time at least, been “soft” on such trip-wire issues as gun control, unionization of public service employees, and the Right to Work Law.
Beyond all this, the Democratic party had not been able to heal the wounds remaining from the long and bitter summer primary campaign. Outward appearances notwithstanding, untold thousands of those who could not accept Howell’s upset victory over Andrew Miller continued to sulk.
They were ready targets for the Republican anti-Howell hliti.
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