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...down by Elihu Root in 1912: that contested delegations seated by the national committee may participate in a full convention vote on any contest save their own. In last-moment desperation, Taft Leaders Tom Coleman and Dave Ingalls offered to give up their fight for the Root ruling if Ikemen would agree not to challenge the qualifications of seven of the 13 contested delegates from Louisiana. By this time, the argument had moved into full view of the TV cameras. Pounding his fist, Eisenhower Campaign Manager Henry Cabot Lodge refused to give way. He told his followers...
...majority of no votes the convention rejected Clarence Brown's amendment. Then in a voice vote it approved the Langlie "fair play" resolution. Robert Taft had not yet lost the nomination nor even the fight over contested delegates, but jubilant Ikemen could not help recalling the prediction of Pennsylvania's Governor John Fine: if the Langlie resolution won with a sizable majority, Ike would be nominated on an early ballot...
...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...
When all the testimony and argument were in, the national committee's Taft majority landed its final blow on the Ikemen's heads. The vote: 60-41 to split Texas 22 for Taft and 16 for Eisenhower, exactly as Candidate Taft had suggested in his letter...
...housekeeper at Chicago's Conrad Hilton hotel, although outwardly neutral like all the hotel employees, is wearing (according to Ikemen) an Eisenhower button on her slip. That is one of the latest eve-of-battle bulletins from Chicago, as the city braces for C-day amid tornadoes of campaign literature, jungles of telephone wire, rivers of ice water and the thunderous fizz of headache powders...