Word: bandwagoners
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...date there has been no wholesale rush of Democrats to get on the Republican bandwagon like there was after the Willkie nomination, but I have no doubt there will be right after Truman is nominated...
...Jersey to Dewey for the same reward. Congressman Charlie Halleck was going to deliver Indiana for the same reason. The effect of the stories was always the same. Delegates were assailed with doubts about their candidates and growing panicky over their own political hides. Were they missing a bandwagon? Would they go unrewarded when the patronage was dealt...
...nomination. But the coalitionists, desperate as they were, would not give in yet. They had agreed to ask for a recess after the second ballot. But now, while the official count was being tallied, there was confusion on the floor. Restless delegates from the coalition states saw the Dewey bandwagon rolling right past their door. Should they switch...
...Vice President. Some were old Dewey partisans-Congressman Leonard Hall of New York; Dewey's John Foster Dulles; National Committeeman Lew Wentz of Oklahoma; Barak Mattingly of Missouri and Mason Owlett of Pennsylvania. Others were days-old allies, men who had thrown their weight behind the Dewey bandwagon when that weight counted most-New Jersey's Governor Alfred Driscoll, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, Massachusetts' Governor Robert F. Bradford, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, and the Kansas City Star's Roy Roberts. Vandenberg had accepted Dewey's invitation...
Fourth Ballot. Unless Dewey has won on the third, this is Vandenberg's big chance. If Duff and Driscoll have held out against a rush to Dewey through the crucial third ballot, if Massachusetts and California have not deserted their favorite sons, a Vandenberg bandwagon could start to roll. If it does not start here, it probably never will...