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When Henry Zweifel, Taft's No. i man in Texas, turned elected Eisenhower delegates out of his state convention, a nationwide outcry went up. Usually, such fights over delegate credentials attract little interest. This time it was different, precisely because so many Republicans realized that in 1952 the party could not win unless the nominee had clean hands...
...Deal. After reading Taft's letter, Gabrielson recessed the hearing and urged the Taft Texans, headed by National Committeeman Henry Zweifel, and the Texans for Ike, headed by Houston Oilman Jack Porter, to get together. But the Eisenhower men refused to deal...
...state convention. A resolution endorsing Dwight D. Eisenhower and instructing the state convention delegates to vote in his favor was seconded by [County Chairman] Joe Compton and carried by 13 t01 ... There was no walkout-no rump convention . . . Later that week, Compton, a longtime friend of Henry Zweifel's, received instructions to file a false return on that convention, naming a Taft slate of delegates and claiming a resolution had been passed endorsing Taft. When Compton was placed under oath before the state executive committee, he admitted that he had participated in the convention that endorsed Eisenhower...
...Convention. Houston Lawyer Malcolm McCorquodale reported on Brazos County in southeast Texas. Said he: "The county chairman was a Zweifel henchman. He looked over these delegates and he saw he was going to get outvoted, so he just refused to call the meeting to order . . . He ran the delegates off the premises, held a county convention all by himself, elected himself delegate to Mineral Wells; he was seated at Mineral Wells, and cast the entire five votes for the county himself...
...Preliminaries. This front-of-curtain exchange between Texans Zweifel and Porter was a prologue to the drama which will occupy many of the Republicans' hours in Chicago: the fight for 70* contested delegates from Texas and four other states. The first Chicago round of the battle began this week as the Republican National Committee started its deliberations on the contests. The committee will hold hearings and decide which delegates should be seated temporarily. Ikemen have reason to be concerned about the refereeing, for the national committee is solidly dominated by Taftmen...