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...intend to walk into this buzz saw. But that intention led to the inevitable accusation that he was afraid to stand up against Ike. Last month, Taft Strategist John D. M. Hamilton led a task force to New Hampshire to look things over, and announced "surprising and encouraging results." Taftmen noted with pleasure that March 11 is the annual town-meeting day, on which residents gather at churches, schools and town halls to discuss town business. Their fond hope: that a good percentage of the small-town folks will step over to the polling booths and vote for Taft. They...
...other fields, where they thought they were "safe," the Taft forces last week were trying to shake off two small Eisenhower jolts. In a New Orleans primary, Ike's backers won ten of twelve contested seats on the Louisiana Republican Central Committee. The lame-duck committee, led by Taftmen, promptly tried to outlaw the primary on technical grounds, and the fight went to court. In Oklahoma, district conventions began electing the state's 16 delegates to the Republican convention. Five of the first six to be named are Ikemen. Taft Campaign Manager Dave Ingalls rushed into Oklahoma...
Ingalls finished and looked up. Taftmen leaped to their feet to applaud, but the ovation was noticeably lighter than it had been at the beginning. Two seats away, Earl Warren, his face frozen in a faint quarter-smile, applauded perfunctorily. Cabot Lodge gave two handclaps, got up from the speakers' table and strode angrily from the platform...
Taft himself was at the meeting for only two hours; the rest of the time, 52-year-old Dave Ingalls did the talking for him; the Taftmen well knew that he was eminently qualified for the job. A cousin* and long the closest friend of Mr. Republican, he is also Taft's personable junior partner, and the man in charge of his campaign. It was Ingalls who sparked Taft's Senate campaign in 1950; it was he who convinced Taft that he could win the presidential nomination...
...Taftmen were frankly jubilant at the prospect. Ike's silence was golden for the Democrats, too, and both camps assiduously fanned the old question: "Is Ike really a Republican?" Illinois' Paul Douglas last week reported Ike "the overwhelming favorite of the great masses of the American people" and repeated his hope "that he will be the Democratic nominee." Some top Administration Democrats got a wild gleam in their eyes and talked of a "plan." The plan presupposes that Taft will build up an unbeatable lead and Ike's G.O.P. bandwagon will grind to a stop. Then selected...