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...transform public disgust with Democratic graft into Republican votes, the G.O.P. needs clean hands. This was proved last fall when Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson and a few other Republicans got dishonorable mention in the course of investigation into Washington influence-peddling. Up to that point, exposure of the Democrats had been rolling along with ever-mounting momentum. After that point, the steam began to go out of G.O.P. exposures of Democratic corruption...
Last week the same Guy Gabrielson led the Taft-faction efforts to steal seats at the convention from Eisenhower delegates who had been elected according...
Paying Texas with Georgia. The national committee, with Gabrielson calling the shots, seated 76 Taft delegates and 21 Ike delegates. Taft himself took credit for a "generous" offer to compromise the Texas fight. The key to this generosity was the theft of 15 seats in Georgia. The background...
Rule & Custom. If the Ikemen lose the round before the pro-Taft national committee, they may throw their next punch on the floor of the convention within a few minutes after Republican Chairman Guy Gabrielson bangs the gavel for the first time. The Eisenhower campaign manager, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, can move to change a rule and a precedent which have applied at Republican conventions since William Howard Taft's steamroller ran down Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. The rule: the temporary chairman decides whether contested delegations seated temporarily by the national committee should be permitted to vote on contests...
...Child." The delegate-hungry Taftmen, obeying the Biblical injunction to forgive their enemies seventy times seven times, have clasped Hallanan to their bosoms once more, and this time they expect him to stay clasped. As temporary chairman, Hallanan will take the gavel a few moments after National Chairman Guy Gabrielson raps the convention to order on July 7, and will preside until after the keynote. He will be in charge when the convention adopts rules and seats contested delegates, when his rulings might be disastrous to the Eisenhower forces. Theoretically, a ruling of the chairman can be reversed...