National Affairs: Idaho: 14 for Taft

At Idaho Falls, after some skirmishing between Taft and Eisenhower forces, the Idaho state convention did what it was expected to do: named a full slate of 14 delegates "honor-bound" to support Taft "to every reasonable extent." Keynoting the convention, Utah's Governor J. Bracken Lee, a Taft man, offered a bit of basic political philosophy. Said he: "Don't get so wrapped up in your own candidate that if you see he is losing you can't get on the bandwagon of the winner."

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