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Lodge recognized it, jumped on it instantly, and kept jumping. The Taftmen had committed themselves, and kept grabbing. When, five days before the convention opened, their national committee took the Georgia delegation, the Taft campaign reached its high-water mark. That was Gettysburg. The same day, 23 Republican governors, meeting in Houston, signed a statement taking the Eisenhower side on the contests and warning that the nominee must have "clean hands." Specifically, the governors were against letting contested delegates vote on other contested delegates, a point that could be seen as critical five weeks before the convention opened (TIME, June...
...forces were about to offer their resolution to prevent contested delegates from voting on other contests, a Taft strategist suggested that they could raise a point of order because the motion included seven Louisiana delegates, whose cases had been settled by the state committee. In a hasty conference, the Taftmen decided to raise the point, and to let Guy Gabrielson, then presiding, uphold it. Then, if the Ikemen wanted to seat their seven from Louisiana, they would have to appeal from the ruling of the chairman. Any assembly is reluctant to overrule "the chair." Ikemen would have had a much...
...Taftmen's signals jammed. When Coleman got back to the floor, Ohio's Senator John Bricker had moved to adopt the 1948 rules, and the Eisenhower forces had offered a substitute motion-the now-celebrated Langlie amendment (providing that delegations contested by more than 33⅓% of the national committee might not vote on other contests). Who told Bricker to make his motion? Chairman Gabrielson, who at that point was apparently thinking about routine, not about Taft tactics. Things were happening so fast that Coleman had to pick the nearest Taftman available to raise the point of order...
...Taft's supporters that protests should not be raised in New Jersey, Connecticut and Washington," and they had agreed. Now, he added, he hoped that the committee would arrive at "an amicable and equitable settlement" of the Texas dispute. Hoover seemed to be saying that the Taftmen had been generous; now the Ikemen should reciprocate. But the fact was that there were no real contests in New Jersey, Connecticut and Washington which could be balanced against the contests in Texas and other Southern states...
...Taftmen did not try to prove that individual Ike supporters were, in fact, Democrats. The national committee simply accepted their general assertions that this was the case. On that point, former Representative Ben Guill, the only Texas Republican elected to Congress in the past 20 years, had a sharp comment. Said Ikeman Guill: "The people who attended those conventions conformed with the election code of Texas; they sent the declarations saying T am a Republican.' They did it in good faith, and I don't know how in the name of heaven the state committee down at Mineral...