Complex sentence: With a successful legislative session behind him, Beckham made a bold political move in June 1906: he orchestrated an effort to set the Democratic gubernatorial and senatorial primaries in November--a full year before the gubernatorial election and two years before the senatorial election.
Split into simpler sentences: With a successful legislative session behind him, Beckham made a bold political move in June 1906. He orchestrated an effort to set the Democratic gubernatorial and senatorial primaries in November--a full year before the gubernatorial election and two years before the senatorial election.