Lyndon B. Johnson with two supporters during his U.S. Senate campaign, 1948

Photograph shows Lyndon Johnson (right) posed with Mrs. Fred Cozad and Adrian Spears during Johnson's campaign for the U.S. senate.''Lyndon Johnson (R) receives encouraging election reports / Mrs. Fred Cozad and Adrian Spears [district chairman] tell Johnson he will carry Bexar county.''''Lyndon B. Johnson's Bexar county leaders Wednesday were able to boast working organizations in every one of the district's precincts, on the heels of another fast-moving visit by their candidate. Johnson, still moving in high gear and meeting hundreds of voters, climaxed a busy San Antonio day Tuesday by appearing at a night rally of 400 precinct managers and assistant managers in Olmos Park...Earlier in the day, at a press conference at the Plaza Hotel, Johnson described his opponent, Coke Stevenson, as a 'scared and beaten man' who has started 'slinging mud' and 'filling the air and newspapers with vicious untruths'...'