Ballot Box 13, Landslide Elections, and Six-Guns – and Real Consequences

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Ballot Box 13, Landslide Elections, and Six-Guns – and Real Consequences
November 19, 2016 17 COMMENTS

We have been told over and over again that elections matter. If that is true, then voter fraud surely matters too.

 

August 28, 1948 was the date for the Democratic primary run-off election for a seat in the U.S. Senate known in Texas as the “Houston Seat” (this was the seat first filled by Sam Houston when Texas joined the Union). The two contenders was the longest serving governor that Texas had known to that time and New Deal Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. It may have been the most closely contested senate race in American history and certainly was one of the most impactful one.

 

Coke Stevenson had been raised in the rocky, dry ranch country of the dead center of Texas. As a teen, he had borrowed money to purchase a team and wagon and hired out hauling freight while studying bookkeeping by the lamp light. He sold his team to take a janitor job with the local bank and was its head cashier before he was 20 while studying law at night. He passed the bar two months after his 20^th birthday and had founded three banks and two ranches before the next decade of his life was spent.

The post Ballot Box 13, Landslide Elections, and Six-Guns – and Real Consequences was written by Ricochet member Ole Summers and upvoted to the Main Feed by member recommendations.