Word: tucker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year the Sommers-Tucker group had all the marks of being the official Republican organization in Georgia; Sommers was national committeeman, Tucker was state chairman, and on their record were eight years of recognition by the national committee...
Last January the Sommers-Tucker organization received the official call from the national committee to send a delegation to the national convention. It called county and district conventions, gave public notice of the meetings, opened them to all 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...
Democrat to the Rescue. Last month, when the national committee sent district delegate contests back to states for decision, it sent the 13 disputes in Georgia back to the recognized Sommers-Tucker committee. The Foster faction appeared before Democratic Judge Chester A. Byars in Spalding County superior court with a suit challenging the Sommers-Tucker delegate from that district, and all others. Democrat Byars promptly granted a temporary injunction preventing the Sommers-Tucker state committee from ruling on the district contests. But Republican national committees have often failed to follow the rulings of Southern judges in contests over delegates. With...
...conniving done by this group when it doesn't seek relief at the proper place ... If a judge in some little county of the committeemen's own state-say Clarence Brown's Ohio-should issue such a ruling, would they pay any attention to it?" Said Tucker, in his brief to the committee: "This small clique . . . simply purported to set up a series of meetings of their own . . . which they are pleased to call . . . conventions...
...Walkout. A gasp of surprise ran through the committee room. Taftman Sommers was walking out on his own organization's delegation. Later, Sommers said that Tucker had been doublecrossing him by gunning for his job as committeeman, and had not let him have as many Taft delegates as he thought he should have. Ikeman Tuttle called Sommers' action: "The worst doublecross that I have ever experienced...