Word: taftmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evidence & Audience. The fight put up in the committee by Eastvold and his col leagues was a warning to the Taftmen of what was to come on the convention floor. On the next case - Louisiana's 13 dele gates- the Eisenhower group put up an other strong argument. Backed up by an impressive array of charts and witnesses, John Minor Wisdom, chief of the pro-Eisenhower delegation from Louisiana, asserted that John Jackson, head of the Taft delegation, had set up rump meetings and then rigged the state credentials committee so that it was worse than a kangaroo court...
...called the leader of the Eisenhower forces, Massachusetts Congressman John Heselton, into a nearby kitchen. Huddling under a wall sign which read "Keep It Clean," Brown offered a two-part deal: 1) the Taftmen would vote in favor of Ike's Louisiana delegation if 2) the Ike-men would accept Senator Taft's 22-16 split of the Texas delegation...
...Taftmen then threw their creaking steamroller into high for the last time. By a vote of 27 to 24, the committee recommended seating of a Texas delegation split 22 for Taft...
Before another humiliating roll-call defeat could be inflicted on them, Taftmen threw in the towel, proposed that the convention unanimously seat the Eisenhower Texas delegation. With that vote, all hope of regaining the offensive went out of the Taft forces, although they still held together with a tenacity and defensive loyalty almost unparalleled in beaten groups at U.S. national conventions...
...television at times found itself an active participant in the convention drama. By demanding the right to cover the Credentials Committee session, TV aligned itself with the Eisenhower "fair play" forces; before the committeemen yielded to TV's demands, 10,000 listeners fired in angry telegrams protesting the Taftmen's closed-door rule...