Word: slate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shivers and Daniel had not actually joined the Republicans, but the Republicans joined them. Oilman Jack Porter, who led the fight against Taft's Texas steamroller in the Chicago convention, last week persuaded the Republican state convention to support the full slate of Democratic nominees for state offices. Porter thinks that Eisenhower will have a better chance of carrying Texas if Democrats are not drawn to the polls by state contests...
...Shivers did not resist the loyalty pledge at Chicago which sought to guarantee the nominees of the national party a place on state tickets. They can be on the ballot under some such heading as "Federal Democrat"; Eisenhower and Nixon could be the 'nominees on a "Texas Democrat" slate...
...state convention earlier in the week, Mississippi Democrats also voted to back the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket. After the convention adjourned, some dissidents held a rump meeting of "Democrats for Eisenhower," named an independent slate of electors pledged...
...Clean Slate...
...rest of the pattern. Every voter, he said, should have the opportunity to vote his convictions. Since the South Carolina Republican Party is weak and tangled in litigation, the thing to do is to get the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket on the ballot by petition, as an independent slate. "Many Democrats," said Byrnes, would sign such a petition. Later, he said he would sign one himself, although he was still not certain how he will vote in November...