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When the 46 members of the Republican Convention arrangements committee settled down in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel last week, the committeemen who like Ike knew that they were outnumbered. The only question was how far the Taft majority would go in naming Taftmen to key positions in the national convention. How far they went was apparent a moment after the session ended. Ikeman Ralph H. Cake, Oregon national committeeman, stomped out of the meeting room and growled: "Yes, they have rigged us, but good...
...rigging, the Taftmen picked...
...blow that struck the Ikemen hardest was the committee's choice for temporary chairman. Traditionally, the keynoter is the temporary chairman, but everyone agreed that General MacArthur's lack of experience with political conventions made him an unlikely choice. So the Taftmen's choice was West Virginia's Hallanan...
...Shyster" & "Spoiled Child." The delegate-hungry Taftmen, obeying the Biblical injunction to forgive their enemies seventy times seven times, have clasped Hallanan to their bosoms once more, and this time they expect him to stay clasped. As temporary chairman, Hallanan will take the gavel a few moments after National Chairman Guy Gabrielson raps the convention to order on July 7, and will preside until after the keynote. He will be in charge when the convention adopts rules and seats contested delegates, when his rulings might be disastrous to the Eisenhower forces. Theoretically, a ruling of the chairman can be reversed...
...Taftmen agree that the pledge was signed, but they contend that many of the signatures were fraudulent. As evidence that the Ike forces openly sought Democratic votes, Taft Campaign Manager David S. Ingalls produced newspaper advertisements in which Eisenhower supporters urged Democrats to sign the pledge and attend Republican caucuses. The ads promised: "You are not pledged to support the nominee of the Republican Party nor does it prohibit you from voting in the July Democratic primary . . ." As a result of this proposition, said Ingalls, Democrats moved into the Republican Party and tried to control its delegation to the national...