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Election Day brought a landslide in Puerto Rico too. Governor Luis Munoz Marin, running for reelection, swept every town in the island, piled up a total of 428,171 votes. He got 65% of the total vote, compared to 61.8% in 1948. His Popular Party won 70 of 96 seats in the legislature-all it could get under the proportional-representation system in the new Commonwealth constitution...
...claiming that the inscrutability of the Spanish names had confused the Committee into perpetrating a great injustice, moved a revote. Brown, starting like a warhouse to the sound of trumpets, bellowed a point of order, and the wrangle began anew. Heselton took the podium and threatened to include Puerto Rico in the minority report, a threat which due to lack of time and the great bitterness on the Convention floor never materialized. This argument merged with another--something to do with motorcycle escort for Committee members to Convention Hall--and the Chair adjourned the session amid general confusion...
Typical of all the contests, Puerto Rico's troubles began when a convention of six hundred odd selected one slate of delegates and a rump of forty-eight selected another. The legal delegation included one Eisenhower rooter, Mr. Julia, and one for Stassen, Mr. Romani, while the rump electees included two men for Taft. Common to both groups was a supposedly neutral delegate...
...Committee's schedule, Puerto Rico was one of several caselets sandwiched between the Georgia contest and the equally important Texas and Louisiana disputes. Whoever assumed that it would be decided swiftly, however, guessed wrong. For one thing, Puerto Rico was the one case which Committee members had never heard before. This, in addition to the difficulties of the Spanish names, engulfed the Congress Hotel's Gold Room in ignorence and confusion. For another, Clarence Brown, floor leader for the Committee's Taftites, was aware of the deal made by Gabrialson and Gates, and was naturally touchy on the whole question...
...Committee's call came to them. Once the attorneys were through, the Committee began a raucus internal argument. Eastvold repeated his declaration, and the member from Rhode Island took up the strain. He first suggested that the call was unimportant in this case since the National Committeewoman from Puerto Rico was married to one of the Rump delegates, and then harrangued his colleagues on Gate's part in the deal--accusing the General Counsel of personally arranging yet another "steal." A bellow issued from the audience, and Gates himself marched to the podium. There, on a point of personal privilege...