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...Politician Hallanan. Pennsylvania's Senator Jim Duff roared: "As an umpire we'll have a man who is already a player in the game." Campaign Manager Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. speculated that he might take a megaphone to Chicago, in case Hallanan refused to let Ikemen use the microphones. Taftmen on the arrangements committee, said Lodge, had used "shyster tactics...
...Ikemen wanted to do something more than shout about Hallanan, and they began to study the possibilities. When his appointment as temporary chairman comes before the convention for confirmation, they can nominate someone else from the floor and try to get their man in. But that would involve a serious risk. If Hallanan won that fight, wavering delegates might take it as an indication that the Ikemen could never muster enough votes to win, and a stampede to Taft might start...
...week's end Eisenhower supporters had not decided whether they would take the risk of a fight against Hallanan.* Telephone lines from the Ike headquarters in Washington carried a steady flow of long-distance calls to delegates. The Ikemen realized that the Taft "arrangements" in Chicago would have their greatest effect on delegates who want only to be with the winner. They might get just the impression that the Taftmen wanted them to-that Taft cannot be stopped...
...eleven disputes over delegates back to Republican state committees for decision. Basis for the action: a party rule which says that arguments about district seats must be settled by state conventions or committees, and that only delegate-at-large contests can be considered at the national level. The horrified Ikemen pointed out that their complaint, in practically all cases, has been that Old Guard Taftmen controlling state organizations are trying to freeze out Eisenhower delegates. The committee's action, they said, was letting the accused judge their own crime...
Glee & Pain. In high glee, Taft & Co. promptly brought up a fact which only intensified the Ikemen's pain: the rule under which the committee acted was adopted in 1944 and indorsed in 1948 when the Dewey forces, now backing Ike, controlled the party machinery. If the Dewey rule holds, the number of contests the Ikemen can bring before the convention itself will be greatly decreased...