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...from U.S. politics. Television and the U.S. press reported a struggle whose terms could be understood at every level, from the most abstract principle of popular government down to the concrete situation in the Louisiana district where, on a night last April, John Jackson's followers held a rump meeting under a live oak tree. Schoolboys can be found in the U.S. today who understand the practical politics of the Taft-Ike fight in Louisiana, and how that relates to "governments deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...
...case - Louisiana's 13 dele gates- the Eisenhower group put up an other strong argument. Backed up by an impressive array of charts and witnesses, John Minor Wisdom, chief of the pro-Eisenhower delegation from Louisiana, asserted that John Jackson, head of the Taft delegation, had set up rump meetings and then rigged the state credentials committee so that it was worse than a kangaroo court. Cried Wisdom: "A decent, respectable kangaroo wouldn't be caught dead in such meetings...
...home district, described his ward meeting. "After the delegates were nominated, Jackson said, 'Our delegates are elected,' led his group from the room, even turned out the lights." Witness J. Paulin Duhe of New Iberia testified that in his (the Third) congressional district, there was no Jackson rump convention "because they couldn't find anybody to rump." But the state committee had named two pro-Taft delegates in that district anyway, contending that the Wisdom meeting was not properly advertised...
Wisdom summed up: "In every case when the Jackson faction lost, it held a small rump meeting-in a corner of a meeting place, or on the sidewalk, or somewhere under a tree in the dark." He maintained that the Louisiana delegation should be 13 for Ike, two for Taft...
...County: "By majority vote I was elected one of the delegates to the 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...