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Grevemberg was outraged at newspaper editorials against him. "My main purpose for entering this race was toward a two-party system.... I hope I have convinced a sizable number of people we do need two parties." Grevemberg was particularly hostile toward ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' which called him a "turncoat" after he left the Democratic Party, adding: "I risked my life and those of my family in attempts to rid this state of racketeers.... These newspapers have lived up to the reputation given them by Huey Long that they were yellow journals."
Grevemberg was outraged at newspaper editorials against him. "My main purpose for entering this race was toward a two-party system.... I hope I have convinced a sizable number of people we do need two parties." Grevemberg was particularly hostile toward ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' which called him a "turncoat" after he left the Democratic Party, adding: "I risked my life and those of my family in attempts to rid this state of racketeers.... These newspapers have lived up to the reputation given them by Huey Long that they were yellow journals."
The GOP was still four years away from offering voters a more competitive choice in a Louisiana gubernatorial general election, when [[John J. McKeithen]] defeated the Republican pioneer [[Charlton Lyons]] . At the close of the campaign, Grevemberg called upon President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] to investigate Mafia figure Carlos Marcello of Gretna in Jefferson Parish, in light of failed efforts to have Marcello deported.<ref>Marcello was later deported during the [[John F. Kennedy]] administration but soon slipped back into the United States.</ref> Grevemberg said that he harbored no ill will toward Davis but was merely trying to plant the seeds of a two-party system in Louisiana.<ref>See the article on the 1959 Louisiana gubernatorial election in the ''Alexandria Town Talk,'' April 14, 1960, pp. 18, 20.</ref>
The GOP was still four years away from offering voters a more competitive choice in a Louisiana gubernatorial general election, when [[John J. McKeithen]] defeated the Republican pioneer [[Charlton Lyons]] . At the close of the campaign, Grevemberg called upon President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] to investigate Mafia figure Carlos Marcello of Gretna in Jefferson Parish, in light of failed efforts to have Marcello deported.<ref>Marcello was later deported during the [[John F. Kennedy]] administration but soon slipped back into the United States.</ref> Grevemberg said that he harbored no ill will toward Davis but was merely trying to plant the seeds of a two-party system in Louisiana.<ref>See the article on the 1959 Louisiana gubernatorial election in the ''[[Alexandria Town Talk]],'' April 14, 1960, pp. 18, 20.</ref>
As a delegate to the 1960 Republican National Convention in [[Chicago]], Grevemberg was among ten delegates who still cast their votes for [[U.S. Senator]] [[Barry Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]], after Goldwater had lectured conservatives "to grow up" and support [[Richard M. Nixon]] for the party's nomination against U.S. Senator [[John F. Kennedy]] of [[Massachusetts]].
As a delegate to the 1960 Republican National Convention in [[Chicago]], Grevemberg was among ten delegates who still cast their votes for [[U.S. Senator]] [[Barry Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]], after Goldwater had lectured conservatives "to grow up" and support [[Richard M. Nixon]] for the party's nomination against U.S. Senator [[John F. Kennedy]] of [[Massachusetts]].