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LEXINGTON, K.Y., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9,

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REPORT . 6&

GOP Gains In Congress

Page Four

Charter Lost Everywhere

Eight Pages

Page Two

Editorial Comments

of Kentucky

Vol. 58, No. 50

election

Page Five

Reagan Wins California

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Cooper Big Winner; Charter Swamped
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By GENE CLABES
LOUISVILLE Republican
incumbent John Sherman Cooper, with a record majority that
exceeded all expectations, solidly
defeated Democratic challenger
John Y. Brown Tuesday in their
race for United States senator.
Despite predictions by state
political observers that Brown, a
state representative from Lexington, would be defeated by
100,000 votes, it appeared late
Tuesday night Cooper's victory
margin would climb well above

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By WALTER GRANT

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Conservative-mLOUISVILLE
inded
Kentucky voters

Tuesday overwhelmingly

200,000 votes.
With more than 2,700 of the

state's 3,027 precincts reporting,
Cooper is unofficially leading
Brown 493,000 to 268,000.
The landslide victory places
Cooper in the Senate for his
second straight full term and
solidifies again the state's two

Republican Senate seats.
Thruston Morton is the other

Republican senator from Kentucky.
Sooper's majority against
Brown doubles the margin he
built against Keen Johnson in
1960 when he won his first full
senate term after serving as an
ambassador.
Brown, in his campaign, challenged what he termed "the
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SENATOR COOPER GREETS WELL WISHERS IN LOUISVILLE TUESDAY NIGHT

The Sign Was Nice, The Victory Sweet
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pinstripe
suit held high the sign that explained the smile on his lips.
"How Sweet It Is" was the message. John Sherman Cooper was
the man.
He had every right to be
happy, for his victory was very
sweet. The Somerset Republican
had just pulled in the biggest
margin of votes in Kentucky history.

Party workers at election
headquarters shared the senior
senator's joy, knowing they had
already picked up two House
seats in the state and were well
on the way to dramatic gains
elsewhere. To express their mood
graphically, someone hastily lettered the placard.
Cooper put down the sign of
pride to speak to the workers
and television viewers, to express
his humility and gratefulness.
"I'd like to thank all the
people," he said simply. "You've
given me your votes and your
support. You've given it before,
but now it especially makes me
humble, and it more than ever
makes me want to serve this
state and nation to the best of
my ability."
The people Cooper thanked
had shown their confidence in
him, but then he had confidence
they would. "I haven't seen a

single return, but they say I've for me to say that I've been truthnight was ending early. The senwon and I knew all along I ful and direct in this race. I ator graciously stopped to accept
would."
Jiope this is why the people congratulations and extended
supported me. I tried to keep it hands, and, at one time, to tip
The senator made that remark
about 8 p.m. while waiting to on a high level, resisting the an elevator operator. He patiently
temptation to get into person- pennitted interviews and pictures
appear at headquarters. But at
while on his way to have supper
that time most everyone else in alities," he commented.
and close
with his
the nation knew of Cooper's vic"I had made up my mind friends. wife, brother,
tory. Two TV networks had probefore tonight that if I won I
jected the win as early as 6:30 would be happy. If I lost, I'd
Taking a last minute look at
p.m., only 30 minutes after polls
returns before
at least know I had served my
in Kentucky closed.
taking that quiet meal. Cooper
people."
Briefly looking back on this
tersely expressed his feeling of
Throughout the evening at the big win.
campaign that brought him that
victory, Cooper called John Y. headquarters, Cooper never
"1 really have to ge a good
seemed anxious to get it all over
Brown a "very aggressive opponbut was glad the election senator now," he said.
ent. I don't think it's immodest with,
county-by-count- y

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jected the fourth major attempt
to revise the state constitution,
adopted 75 years ago.
The proposed new constitution was voted down in all of
the state's 120 countries. Statewide, the margin of defeat approached a ratio of four to one.
Few persons were surprised
by the charter's defeat, but the
landslide vote was unexpected.
The constitution even lost decisively in all of the state's urban areas, where proponents of
the revision were counting on a
heavy favorable vote.
With 2,993 of 3,027 precincts
reporting, the number of "no"
votes was 510,099, with only
140,210 "yes" votes.
The proposed charter was
written over a period of two
years by the Constitution Revision Assembly and placed on
the ballot by the 1966 legislature.

Tuesday's election repre-

sented the first time since 1891
that Kentuckians have voted on
a specific and concrete revision
to the constitution. However,
on three previous occasions
voters rejected a call for a constitutional convention of elected
delegates to revise the existing
charter.
Gov. Edward T. Breathitt was
the major proponent of the new
charter. Thus somepersonsTues-danight contended the overwhelming defeat was a slap at
the present Administration. However, the major reasons for the
charter's defeat appear to
with the method of
revision and the fear of a
"power grab" in Frankfort.
Secretary of StateThelma
the highest ranking public
official opposing the proposed
constitution, told the Kernel she
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Republicans Get Two State Seats

Republican William O. Cowger, former
LOUISVILLE Republicans gained two Louisville mayor, swept the Third District
new footholds Tuesday in the U.S. House by an unofficial 18 percent plurality. In the
of Representatives by capturing seats from closest House contest in the state, Cene
claimed a victory
Kentucky's recently reapportioned Third and Snyder
a two-da-y
over Frank Chelf,
Fourth districts.
won candidate, for a seat from the Fourth DisThe two new seats, added to that
by Fifth District incumbent Rep. Tim Lee trict.
Democratic incumbents won election in
Carter, gave the COP an unprecedented
the First, Second, Sixth, and Seventh Disthree of seven congressional seats in Kentricts.
tucky.
Snyder defeated Chelf by a nine perThe three COP House victories, coupled
with Sen. John Sherman Cooper's landslide cent plurality, depending heavily on votes
win, also gave Republicans a majority on from Jefferson County precincts.
Trecincts in only two other counties
Kentucky's congressional delegation for the
Boone and Grant -- gave Snyder majorities.
first time in history.
Chelf held oidy a narrow edge in NorthStanding with Republican Sen. Thruston
ern Kentucky counties, which contain more
B. Morton, the four victors gave the (K)l'
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than 50 percent of the district's voting
a five to four margin over the Democratic-from the state.
strength.
Congressional delegation
By TERENCE HUNT

veteran of Congress, enChelf, a
tered the election Sunday evening after the
death of John J. Moloney, former Covington mayor, city commissioner, and state
senator. Chelf, who until the election had
been dean of the state's delegation, had
planned to retire, until the Sunday night
draft.
According to his party workers in Louisville, defeat was spelled out early for Democrat Noibert Blume, who lost in the Third
District race. "You could tell from the very
start it was bad," one said.
Illume conceded the race at 7 p.m., one
hour after the polls closed, and then made
a statement at 7:45 p.m. at the party's
22-ye-

head-quuiter-

s.

Chelf did not make an appearance in
Umisville, but party workers had conceded
the election by 7:30 p.m.

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McNamara, speaking Saturday at the LHJ Hanch, said
American strength in Vietnam will be 383,000 by the end of this
year- -a 200,000 increase.
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landslide vote.
The margin sparked the opponents' victory celebration.
They obviously were extremely
pleased with the vote, and they
continuously told each other,
"You can't fool the people."
The 50 some persons who
gathered at the opponents headquarters looked like a mob in
comparison with the handful at
the proponents' headquarters
here. The proponents had closed
their doors and gone home by
8:15 p.m.
All persons questioned in the
opponents
headquarters said
they objected to certain provisions in the proposed charter
and the way it was handled.
Most said they would support a call for a constitutional
convention if the voters were
given the right to ratify or reject the convention's work.
Voters rejected a convention
call in 1931, 1947 and in 1960.
In 1931, only 20 percent of the
people voted to call a convention. That number increased to
42 percent in 1947 and 48.5 percent in 1960.

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In Illinois, another key race
saw Charles Percy, a Republican
businessman who
made a strong bid for the governorship two years ago, capture
the scat held for 13 years by Paul

By JUDY CRISIIAM
The completion of the Senate
was not affected notably by Tuesday' s el ect ion, bu he new I Ion se
may prove to be a real test of
President Johnson's skill as a
legislative manipulator.
In battle for Senate seats, the
two parties fought to pretty much
the expected standoff. Unofficial
results gave the Republicans a
net gain of three Senate seats.
But the House was a different

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Wednesday morning's early
hour results gave the Republicans
an official net gain of 26 scats
in the House, with predictions
that final tabulations would show
gain.

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zation led by Gov. John

Dirk-se-

Although the Republicans
needed 78 seats to win organizational control of the House, an
increase of even 25 to 30 GOP
seats would give veto power over
liberal legislation to a coalition
of Republican, and southern
Democrats.
elections
In the 13
since 1914, the presidential party
has lost an average of four
Senate and 36 House seats.
The
lineup of the
Senate was 67 Democrats, 33
Republicans. Of the 35 Senate
seats at stake, 18 were Democratic and 15 Republican plus
"two short-terDemocratic seats.
Even before the vote counting
started, the Democrats had three
Senate seats and 51 House seats.
The candidates all were unopposed or had only token opposition. Most of the Democrats
who were unopposed for House
seats were Southerns, but Speaker John W. McCormack of Massachusetts was another who had
contest.
no
In a
election,
Massachusetts chose Republican
State Attorney General Edward

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of the Johnson administration
policy, defeated Representative
Robert Duncan, a supporter of
the President. They were vying
for the seat vacated by retiring
Maurine Neuberger, a Democrat

son-in-la-

publican leader, Everett M.

B.

The only real test of the President's Vietnam policy came with
the Oregon contest. Republican
Gov. Mark O. Hatfield, a critic

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story.

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pion for liberal cause.
Within an hour after the
Illinois polls closed, Percy, 47,
was declared victor over his
former economics pron
fessor by three
networks. Age, vote fraud, and
white backlash were all issues,
as well as a possible sympathy
vote in Percy's favor. Percy's
daughter, Valarie, was murdered
in the family home in

Republican Howard H. Baker,
who had focused his campaign
on criticism of President Johnson's "Great Society," staged an
upset victory over Gov. Frank
G. Clement inTennessee's senate
race. Clement was Democratic
primary winner over incumbent
Sen. Ross Bass. Baker, whose
parents were both House memof Senate Rebers, is

In Texas Sen. John G. Tower,
the only Texas Republican in
Congress, defeated State Attorney General Waggoner Carr in
spite of all out support of Carr
by the Democratic state organi

and one of the two women in
the Senate.
Looking bac k from perspec tive
of election day, perhaps the
biggest development of the campaign was a negative one-t- he
failure of Vietnam to develop as
a clear-cucentral issue.
But nothing else caught on
either. In the end, thecampaigns
t,

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personalities over local issues.
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Brooke foiled the w hite backlash in a state where Negroes are
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Nol A Dead Issue
The rejection of Kentucky's proposed new constitution by voters
in Tuesday's election is certainly
a disappointment to those persons
who have Riven considerable time
and effort in an unselfish attempt
to relieve the Commonwealth of
its existing outmoded constitution.
The fourth major attempt to
revise the present
constitution failed largely because
voters were swamped with false
and distorted information about
the revision. It is indeed unfortunate that Kentucky must continue to be governed by such an
archaic framework of state gov-

constitutional convention. By doing so, the question of calling a
convention of elected delegates to
revise the constitution could be
submitted to the voters next November.

The convention, if in fact the
voters would approve the call,
would not have to start from
scratch. Delegates could begin by
reviewing and hopefully improving
the document written by the Constitution Revision Assembly and
rejected by voters Tuesday.
We also challenge opponents
of the proposed new charter to
support a convention call. Many
of them have said publicly they
ernment.
favor a new constitution, but not
However, we would hope proin the form just rejected. If these
ponents of a modern constitution persons are sincere in
wanting a
will not be discouraged to the
let them prove
progressive state,
point of completely dropping their themselves by openly supporting
campaign. We encourage those who a renewed campaign for a revised
favored the revision to continue
constitution.
campaigning for a new constituWe would hope, then, that contion in Kentucky. The state's voters stitutional revision is not a dead
apparently have not been con- issue in Kentucky. To the convinced that w revised constitution
we advocate increased acwill mean a far better future for trary,
to relieve the state of the
tivity
the Commonwealth.
numerous restrictions in the existTo expedite a renewed effort ing constitution. If the issue does
to revise the 1891 constitution, not die as a result of the rejection
we encourage Gov. Edward T. of the proposed charter,
can still have a new conBreathitt to call a special session
of the General Assembly and ask stitution within the next three
legislators to issue a call for a years.

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Healthy Competition
Particularly significant inTues-day'- s
election was the Republicans' storming up the comeback
trail with impressive victories for
1968 presidential possibilities and
a quicker threat to the future of
President Johnson's "Great Society" program.

It is good for the nation as
a whole that some balance is returning to the political scene after
it was so drastically upset in the
1964 presidential election. When
the two-part-y
system is threatened, so is our concept of democracy.

Election of "big" GOP names
poses the prospect of a showdown
for the party presidential nomination next time between liberal

Perhaps Tuesday's election,
then, has begun to restore healthy
political competition.

and conservative factions.

Kernels

In battles for Senate seats, the
two parties fought to an anticipated standoff. But in House races,
Republicans knifed into Democratic strength deeply enough to
spell trouble for some of John-

The true test of civilization is,
not the census, nor the size of
cities, nor the crops nQ, but the
kind of man the country turns

Letters To The Editor

Directories Late Again
To the Editor of the Kernel:
Once again the Student Directory is going to appear almost at
the semester's end. After serious
consideration of the situation, a
few things have come to light.
The Student Congress office reported on Nov. 3 that the directory has not yet gone to press!
The reason given is that Dr. Oswald and Col. Alcorn both have
material to be printed and the directory must be held up until these
items are finished.

Congress some money but I'm sure
the students won't scream over a
nominal fee. Besides, look at all
the time it will save for Student
Congress to back-slaWarren Kempf
Education Senior
p.

'Spy' Apologizes
would like to apologize to the
coaching staff and the players of
the University of Kentucky football
team for disturbing their practice
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session on Nov. 3.

The practice was held on the
I'm sure this is probably lesports center field, where intragitimate information, although I mural
out.
flag football games are held.
didn't
the campus printing
Ralph Waldo Emerson office. query
Two other students and I were
son's upcoming controversial legstanding on a sidewalk that runs
islative proposals.
But the question is not one of around
Cooperstown, watching the
If a nation values anything more legitimacy; it is one of
Election results were full of
poor pro- practice. But we must have been
than freedom, it will lose its freegraming on the part of the cur- disturbing the peace of the football
healthy signs for the Republican
dom; and the irony of it is that rent student administration. This team or
party: In Massachusetts, the first
somebody, because we
if it is comfort or money that it is not unusual, though. Student
senator in 85 years won.
Negro
were told by one of the team
values more, it will lose that too. politics at the University have alTennessee elected its first Repubmanagers that the campus police
William Somerset Maugham ways been
lican senator.
relegated to a role of would be called if we didn't leave.
apathy and jealousy. It also apThe thought crossed my mind
For the first time since Reconpears that the University adminisabout what right he had to do
Arts and sciences are not cast tration cares
struction, the GOP picked off the
little about whether or this, but then I remembered that
Florida governorship in an upset. in a mould, but are formed and not students have a
directory.
I was only a student, who hasn't
The three Republican "R's," Rea-goperfected by degrees, by often handWhy should they be concerned? missed a home game in four years,
Romney, and Rockefeller, all ling and polishing, as bears leihas been coming to UK
scored victories ranging from desurely lick their cubs into form. They have access to the records. and who
since before I can rememgames
Michel de Montaigne
cisive to a landslide.
I offer this suggestion as a
ber.
remedy: Why not forget petty polBut I decided that I had better
itics and University red tape and beat it before the
Keystone, I mean
let a contract for the job to an
nabbed me.
campus cops,
independent printing facility, with
I would like to repeat my apoloThe South's Outstanding College Daily
the understanding that if an Oct.
gy again, because I would hate
Univkhsity ok Kentucky
1 deadline is not
met, they return to have it on my conscience that
ESTABLISHED 1894
NOV. 9, 1966
WEDNESDAY,
a portion of the fee on a per diem I
interrupted a practice and caused
Editorials represent the ojrinions of the Editors, not of the University.
basis for every day the deadline is our football team to lose.
Walteh M. Crant, Editor-lexceeded.
Crdef
James Adkins
Editorial Page Editor
Wu.ua it Knapp, Business Manager
Steve llocco,
Naturally, it will cost Student
Commerce Senior
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By HOWARD KERCH EVAL

host of reasons can be
offered for the defeat of Kentucky's revised constitution, but
they all center in on one underlying theme fear.
There was fear of increased
taxation, fear of lessening local
government power, and primarily, fear that the government was
trying to put something over on
the people.
The fact that the Constitution Revision Assembly (CRA)
was appointed by the governor,
and not elected seems to have
been a major point of contention for a great many voters.
And this is the opinion of
people close to the constitution
question, both supporters and
opponents.
Dr. Kenneth Vanlandingham,
a UK political scientist, opposed
the charter from the beginning.
Commenting on its defeat Dr.
Vanlandingham said, "I think
it deserved to be defeated" as
it was, but added, "I never
heard a person say that we didn't
need some changes inthepresent
constitution."
Many proponents of the charter believe it was not the provisions .within it that caused
defeat, rather a number 01 secondary issues used by its opponents to cloud the real issues.
Dee Akers, secretary of the
CRA, said defeat of the constitution is not an indication the
people are not ready for change,
nor is it a denial of the quality
of the document.
Prof. J. E. Reeves, a guiding
hand behind the proposal, comments along similar lines:
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changes made is necessarily a
long educational campaign. I
now feel that if wc could put
the question of calling a constitutional convention to a vote
of the people, it would have a
good chance of passing.
"I also believe that a convention of elected delegates would
provide us with an updated constitution that would be more
.acceptable to the people."
Dr. David Booth, associate
professor of political science,
said a possible contributor to
the defeat of the constitution
was "fear of the unknown."
"Americans have a very great
attachment for their written constitutions" and the "unorthodox
presentation to the people" was
a large factor in the defeat of
the document, he explained.
Dr. Booth said it was "unfortunate" that Sen. John Sherman Cooper would not speak for.
the constitution. He referred to
the adoption by Michigan of a
constitution in 1963 and the fact
that it took a strong vote getter
like Cov. Romney to put it across.
Prof. Reeves, as a member of
the CRA, was perhaps closer to
the revision question than possibly anyone else in the state.
He considers the local government article one of the great
stumbling blocks of the docu-

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In his home Fayette Countv
he was defeated approximately
Cooper received 22,176
while Brown unofficially received
only 11,316.
In Western Kentucky's First
District, traditionally a DemoBrown camcratic strong-holpaigned vigorously to win back
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With 12 of the 22 precincts
reporting complete totals, Cooper
was leading Brown by 16,260
votes. In McCracken County, the
district's largest county, votes
for Cooper.
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Brown failed to carry any of
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reporting counties.
Only in Union County did he
come close to winning. There,
in that strongly Democratic rural
county, he lost to Cooper by
only 172 votes. In some of the
First District counties, votes
against Brown soared as high
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strategy was directed toward slicing deeply into Cooper's strength
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launched his campaign to unseat incumbent Republican Sen.
John Sherman Cooper.
ment.
Tuesday night, after concedIt was this possibility, he ing the race in a
broadcast, the Democratic
believes, of losing local power
challenger pointed to the "nathat brought out the conservational tide" as one of the key
tism of the Kentucky people,
and it was this conservatism factors in his defeat.
that defeated the constitution.
"Individuals cannot stand
against the tide," Brown said.
"I don't want to take anything'
away from Sen. Cooper's personal following, because he has
quite a lot of it, but the national
tide against the Democratic party
was against us at the start. . .and
one human being cannot fight
that tide."
Brown watched the election
results on television at his Lexington home, surrounded by his
family and his closest friends.
By 7:15 p.m., just a little more
than an hour after the polls
closed, newscasts were telling
him he had lost by nearly a
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margin.
Brown personally answered
and
phone calls from
other persons until 7:30, When
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he turned his attention to other
350 of 351 precincts in Jefferson
major races in the nation and
marCounty's Third District, Cooper Cooper's
was leading 74,703 to 36,363.
gin.
In the Fourth District of JefferIt was the margin that seemed
son, with only 17 of 165 precincts
reported, Cooper had leaped to to surprise him most.
a
margin.
Cooper polled 65 percent of
In Kenton County, also in the vote and carried Brown's
the Fourth District, Cooper led home Fayette County, one of
14,397 to 7,033 after two prethe areas the challenger had been
cincts had reported, a trend obcounting on most. Two hours
servers believed would be folafter the polls closed, reports
lowed in the remaining 98 preshowed Cooper had carried all
cincts.
but one precinct in the county
Brown's attempt to make an and was leading by some 11,000
issue out of the state's decreasvotes. About 33,000 persons voted
ing tobacco acreage allotment in the county.
apparently backfired having only
Hinda Heights, Brown's home
minute effect on Cooper's farm
for Cooper.
vote. Counties located in the precinct, went
state's "burley belt," Bourbon,
Brown did not elaborate on
Woodford, and Harrison Counissues leading to his defeat, sayties, went for Cooper.
ing only, "It was an accumulaBrown, from the campaign's
tion of many things and not
outset admitted he was running
just a personal matter."
an uphill race. Democratic hopes
The general feeling at his
for v ictory seems to dwindle as the
home, however, was that his
somewhat uneventful campaign
campaign centered around a firm
wore on. Even though it apthe First stand in Vietnam and on his
peared that Cooper had
as
District vote, Brown continued own record Democratic majority leader of the Kentucky House
westto campaign strongly in the
ern part of the state. Despite the of Representatives.
outlook Brown resorted to preThere was speculation from
dicting victory as the campaign one close friend who helped
drew to a cose.
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Cooper Defeats Brown
With Record Majority
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proposed new state constitution
also contributed to his defeat.
The Lexington attorney supported the new charter, which
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What about hispolitical plans
for the future?

Brown hinted he would be
willing to run for the office again
when he said