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...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 Guy G. Gabrielson himself had publicly labeled the state committee delegation as "recognizee...
...Republican voters. Neither at the time, nor later, was any charge made that the meetings were "packed with Democrats," or that there was any other impropriety in the way they were conducted. At its state convention, this group named the pro-Ike delegation, although Sommers remained a Taftman...
...tired-eyed Texan named Henry Zweifel stepped off a train at Chicago's Dearborn Station one day last week and took a yard-high, safelike steel filing case in tow. In the case, said Taftman Zweifel, were "more than 1,000 documents" to support his arguments that his Taft delegation from Texas should be seated in the Republican National Convention. He had watched over the case all night in his room on the train, he said, so no one would get away with the evidence. When word of Zweifel's arrival with case and comment reached Houston, there...
Contests decided before the Texas vote may give Ike 15, Taft 17. All of Ike's would come from Georgia, where Taftman Harry Sommers, a member of the national committee, heads the Republican faction whose delegation probably would split 15-2 for Ike on the Texas-seating vote. Neither the national committee nor the convention is expected to repudiate Sommers by accepting the all-Taft rump delegation...
Virginia's delegation had been counted eleven for Taft, one for Eisenhower and eleven uncommitted. At last week's caucus, there were indications that the shift was even greater than the three announcements indicated. The delegation named a Taftman to the credentials committee by a vote of 11-10, and elected an Ikeman to the resolutions committee by the same margin. The indication: a fairly even division between the two candidates...