National Affairs: Who Had the Democrats?

In the furor about Texas, the chief Taft argument has been that the Eisenhower supporters brought Democrats into Republican caucuses to elect delegates for Ike. This week the Democrat shoe was suddenly jammed on the other foot.

The jamming was done by Joe Ingraham, an experienced Republican hand in Texas, the party's chairman for Harris County (Houston), and until a few weeks ago a staunch Taftman. Said Ingraham: "The Zweifel-Taft group . . . campaigned actively all over the state to get Democrats to come into the precinct conventions and vote for Taft. About...

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