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Repeatedly during last night's meeting in Harvard Hall 5, speakers emphasized that endorsement of Goldwater would weaken the club by accentuating the split between conservatives and moderates.
From the very start of the meeting, it was obvious that the Goldwater forces had a clear-cut majority. They clapped and shouted loudly for their speakers. The alternative clapping from the moderates added to the din.
Before and after the meeting, some moderates complained that the club's conservative leadership had unfairly rigged the results by calling the meeting only two days before.
Help from the Moderates. As the campaign entered its final weeks, Goldwater was getting some much-needed help from leaders of moderate Republicanism. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who had been notably silent about the national Republican ticket, now said publicly that he was for "Barry and Bill...
The Republican representation in Congress would be smaller, but it would also tend more to homogeneous Goldwater Republicanism. The obliteration of many Congressional moderates in the party would also leave Goldwater forces as the only visible leadership alternative, should a catastrophe or scandal that decisively discredited the Democrats occur.