Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost everyone had been relaxed about the delegate contest in Georgia. The recognized Republican state committee had sent a delegation divided 13 for Ike, two for Taft, one for Warren and one uncommitted; a contending faction had a solid 17 for Taft. One of the leaders of the official organization, and a member of its delegation, is Harry Sommers, himself a Taftman. He was sitting right there in Chicago as a member of the national committee. No one-at least no one outside the steamroller crew-expected the committee to throw out Sommers' own delegation. National Chairman...
...Georgia evidence unfolded before the committee, the case stretched back to 1944. That year the Republican state convention split, sent separate delegations to the 1944 national convention. There, the national committee seated the delegation headed by Harry Sommers and a north Georgia landowner named W. Roscoe Tucker. The defeated faction was led by Roy G. Foster of Wadley...
Kicked Out Again. In 1948, the Sommers-Tucker organization and the Foster faction again named contesting delegations to the national convention. Again the national committee seated the Sommers-Tucker delegates, kicked out the Foster faction...
Democrat to the Rescue. Last month, when the national committee sent district delegate contests back to states for decision, it sent the 13 disputes in Georgia back to the recognized Sommers-Tucker committee. The Foster faction appeared before Democratic Judge Chester A. Byars in Spalding County superior court with a suit challenging the Sommers-Tucker delegate from that district, and all others. Democrat Byars promptly granted a temporary injunction preventing the Sommers-Tucker state committee from ruling on the district contests. But Republican national committees have often failed to follow the rulings of Southern judges in contests over delegates. With...
...Small Clique." When the Foster faction made much of the court ruling before the national committee, Atlanta Lawyer Elbert Tuttle had a sharp retort: "This lawsuit is another evidence of the conniving done by this group when it doesn't seek relief at the proper place ... If a judge in some little county of the committeemen's own state-say Clarence Brown's Ohio-should issue such a ruling, would they pay any attention to it?" Said Tucker, in his brief to the committee: "This small clique . . . simply purported to set up a series of meetings...