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Committee had voted that the
disputed convention seats Of Texas,
Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi
us in all-should 60 at least tenn
porarily to pro-Taft factions. The
question was whether these dele
gates should be allowed to vote
before the convention itself had
had q chance to pass on their
legitimacy. II so, they could vote
to seat each other-as they had
done in 1912, in the day of Senator
Taft's father.
Under the rules as they stood, all
delegates on the temporary roll had
voting privileges. But these were
rules designed to support the very
system which was under attack at
this convention-especially the tight
control of a few men over what has
passed for the Republican Party in
the South. And the rules of con-
ventions can always be changed.
A Tough Decision
The decision to force the issue
right at the start of the convention
was not an easy one for the Esen-
hover strategists. They knew that
II they lost this opening skirn1ish,
they would be well on their way to
losing the war. But they also knew
that the Old Guards dirty work
in Dixie had offended the nostrils
Of many voters-an many neutral
delegates. And so they determined
to take the plunge.
The Taft forces, on the other
hand, had hardly given the matter
a second thought in the days before
the convention opened. After all,
they controlled the National Com
mittee, the Rules Committee and
the Credentials Committee-all the
machinery which had been set up
to settle disputes like this one. How
could they lose? Right up to the
convention eve, they seemed blandly
confident that they could smash
these upstarts who had the temerity
to disapprove Of the way things had
always worked. It apparently never
occurred to them that the conven-
ton might ignore the machine and
take things into its own hands.
BroYodo Foils
At the very last minute, however,
their bravado turned to doubt.
Suddenly the steamroller did not
look quite as big and tough as 1t
had been looking. They counted
noses and their doubts grew. Here
was an issue entirely Of their own
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COP Outcome Sounds Death Kne for Old Guard

Taft cause, and the man who fol-
lowed him in rebuttal for the Eisen-
hover Side-a young man named
Don EaStvold from the State of
Washington.
"The Republican National COM
mittee and the Credentials COM
mittee are not on trial here to.
night" he said quietly. 'But their
decisions are on trial" Then he
went ahead with a thorough, devas-
tating dissection of the Georgia
case.
That roll call, Of course, was the
crucial one of the week. The de.
feat Of the Taft forces was pri-
marily q moral defeat. That was
what made it so complete.
Needless Defect
In the aftermath, it was quite
evident that this was a defeat the
Taft forces need never, and should
never have suffered. No one could
say whether, If the Georgia and
Texas votes had gone to Eisenhower
In the first place, Senator Taft
could have won the nomination.
But he clearly would have had more
chance Of winning 1t under those
circumstances than he had after
fighting the credentials battle and
losing.
The important thing was not
that he had twice gone out of his
way to show that the forces of in
surrection had enough votes to beat
him. The important thing was that
he had twice gone out of his way
to challenge the convention to take
stand against him for what it
knew was right.
# Senator Taft had had the cour-
age to accept his defeats in Georgia,
Texas and Louisiana when those
defeats occurred, the story of this
convention might have been quite
different from what it was. In the
end, he had to accept them any
way. In the meanwhile, he had sue
ceeded only in identifying his cause
with a kind Of politics that was on
its way out.
The Georgia defeat took the heart
out Of the Taft drive. One hour
later, when Massachusetts, proposed
a roll call on the Texas case, Ernest
Palmer, jr., a Taft delegate from
Iowa, announced the Machines sur
render.
"It's time" he said YEARLY, that
this convention got down to the
business 1t came here for. I move
that we unanimously adopt the
minority report on this case"
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Attack

On the tactical level, last weeks
Battle Of Chicago was fought be-
tween these lucky politicians and
the unlucky ones-those so firmly
committed to the old ways that
they could do nothing with the
anti-political revolt except buck it.
The battle was not lost by these
Taft forces because the profess
sionals on the Eisenhower side were
better tacticians. The Taft men at
the convention did make gross tao
tical errors. But what beat them
was simply the momentum Of the
popular revolt against them and
the system of politics with which
they were identified.
There was no question about this.
The proof was in the ease with
which the inSurgent forces behind
Gen. Eisenhower swept to victory on
every single test of full-convention
strength. In reality, Gen. Ike's
managers needed no special tactical
guile. There was only one trick in
their bag and it never failed them.
All they had to do was to get a
people vs.. machine issue put to
q vote on the floor Of the amphi-
theater. When the votes were
counted, the issue was no more.
The history OF American politics
Is full of revolts, but few, If any,
have had the quality Of seeming
inevitability that this one had. The
convention needed no theatrical de-
vices-no psychological tricks-to
inspire 1t to do the job 1t had come
here to do. It needed no packed
gallery chanting 1--WE want Willkie, I"
or anything else.
Only Conviction Needed
It needed only its conviction that
the time had come for a change
change not merely in the admins
tration in washington, but in the
face of the Republican Party as well.
It was this conviction that the
Taft men had to fight. They were
at a terrible disadvantage. For not
only could they not see their enemy,
they also were completely unable
to understand it,.
They fought their fight with a
growing sense Of bewilderment
Illustration and panic. They did
all the wrong things. Their start
ing attitude at each phase Of the
battle was one Of ruthlessness
They had, at their command, every
switch, every cog which should have
controlled the convention. They
threw all the switches, and set all
the cogs and gears to whirling. But
the more the machine hummed and
the smoother 1t ran, the more
clearly could the majority Of thu
delegates see the thing they were
here to destroy.
At each phase Of the battle, too
when the Taft men became doubtful
that ruthlessness would win, they
tried compromise. They sought tx
bargain with the enemy. But ever,
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time they offered to make q deal,
the majority merely became more
firmly convinced Of the righteous
ness Of its cause.
When the Taft men saw, the actual
prospect Of defeat looming large,
they began to lash out desperately
in all directions. An idea was re-
sponsible for what was happening
to them, but they could not very
well blame an idea. They could not,
for that matter, get very far by
blaming Gen. Eisenhower. And so
they turned on Tom Dewey. Here
was the sinister villain responsible
for their disaster. He had ruined
the party in 1914 and 1948, and he
was running 1t in 1852.
Gov. Dewey's will, as intimated,
was indeed a potent force within
the New York delegation at Chicago.
But he was no more responsible,
all things considered, for what hap
pened to Senator Taft last week
than a fish in the sea was respon-
sible for what happened to King
Canute when the tide rolled in.
Senator Taft, and the Old Guard
Republicans around him, ended up
by claiming that the thing which
fiattened them in Chicago was a
steamroller bigger than theirs-a
machine which ran more smoothly
and powerfully than theirs. They
very much wanted to believe that
what they said was true. They had
to believe it; unless it was true,
their leadership Of the party was
at an end.
A Different SteomrolIer
But 1t wasn't true. The only
steamroller which rolled over the
Taft forces was the steamroller Of
public opinion, demanding that the
Republican Party take new lease
on life behind newer, younger
leaders with newer, younger ideas.
No one could say how long 1t would
remain that kind Of steamroller.
Politics is an institution which Is
unlikely to change overnight. Some
day, perhaps, Ike's bandwagon
might become what the Taft people
said it was-just another political
machine, with a different set Of
people in the same drivers seat.
But, for the moment, at least, 1t
was something else again. It might
not look good for the Old Guard,
but it did look good for the Re-
publican Party. It looked good,
therefore, for all America as well.
Every convention has q few criti-
cal moments, when the drama Of
the battle comes suddenly into
sharp focus and the issues stand
out clearly. The first such moment
in last weeks convention came with
the hrSt roll call Monday, IN q vote
on the rules under which the con-
vention was to operate.
Issue in Miniature
The circumstances Of that ballot
were, in miniature, the circum-
stances of the entire convention.
And when California, as the fourth
State called, threw its 10 votes into
the Eisenhower camp, the trend
toward an ultimate victory for Ike
was established. From that mo-
ment, the trend was not to be
reversed, or even slowed.
The issue that first day was more
than q technical one. It was
whether the convention was to
accept the standards of the past,
or to set its own standards accord
ing to its own views Of right and
wrong. The Republican National
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policy. But a keynote speaker
theoretically is not supposed to
choose between candidates, and
Gen. Macarthur probably went as
far along this line as he could be
expected to 60.
Reason for FoiIure
The real reason for the failure of
the speech was part Of the reason
for the failure of the whole Taft
cause. This man was out Of touch
SO far as ideas were concerned, with
the majority of his audience. He
was like a broadcasting station
transmitting on one wavelength
to so many radios receiving on
another.
So, Of course, was Herbert Hoover,
who received a warm personal
tribute from the delegates before
he spoke, but left most of them cold
in the end. In these voices from
the past, with their subtle under
tones Of defeat, the convention
could find no promise for the future.
So, for that matter, were Senator
Joe Mccarthy and the other younger
speakers chosen by the Taft ma
chine. These voices were the voices
of another sort of defeat-the voices
OF extremism and desperation. But
that was not the prevailing mood
Of the men on the floor of the
convention hall. They were tuned
in on the wavelength of modera-
ton and confidence.
The very fact they heard nothing
on that wavelength from Senator
Taft's parade Of speakers served to
convince them that Senator Taft's
Republican Party was not their
Republican Party.
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CHICAGO.

N344OkAN1Ns
THE Republican convention here
last week was more than a
battle between Gen. Eisenhower
and Senator Taft-or their powerful
protagioniStS. It was more than a
collision between bandwagon and
a steamroller. There have been
steamrollers before, and there have
been bandwagons. This was some-
thing different. It was. in sense,
a battle between the people and the
politicians, with all their ways and
devices. It was part Of a public
revolt that has been going on for
some time. now In this country, a
revolt against the whole idea Of
politics as usual" the same revolt
that created the Esenhower-for-
President boom in the first place.
By all the rules, Senator Taft
should have won. BY all the old
standards, he deserved to win. He
never knew what hit him-and for
a very good reason: It wasn't he
who got hit. It wasn't Senator Taft
they knocked out, last week. It was
the old rules and standards.
A Romontic Motion
It is easy, of course, to make too
much Of this proposition about the
people and the politicians. There
has been a tendency on the part Of
certain journalistic romanticists to
describe the Eisenhower nomination
drive as sort of amateur crusade.
That is plain nonsense. No one in
Chicago last week-no one with
eyes to see-could doubt that there
was plenty Of shrewd, professional,
political brainpower (and plenty Of
money! behind the Eisenhower
movement. Senator Taft's hench-
men, for that matter, had no
monopoly on political rough stuff.
No one who watched Tom Dewey
cracking his whip over the New
York delegation could think so for
a minute.
But there is an important dis
tinction here. The professional
politicians who were behind the
Eisenhower movement we're not
behind it in the sense that they
were controlling it. They were not
puppeteers, pulling strings to make
the little people dance. They were
not master minds operating in the
shadows behind q popular front.
They were behind what was going
on in the sense that q coal tender
is behind a steam locomotive. They
were there because the movement
needed their. kind Of help. They
were the lucky ones who had felt
the pull Of the tide before it was
too late, and who were flexible
enough to swim with it instead Of
against It.
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Conclusion

Except for the drama of Minne-
sofas last-minute switch to Eisen-
hover, the big vote Friday came a.
an anti-climax. The battle already
had been decided so far as the NOM
ination itself was concerned. The
only question left about the NOM
ination was whether Eisenhower
would get it on the first ballot, or
later.
But the real-and much broad.
er-question remaining was an.
other one: Whether the party, hav-
ing purged itself in this bitter week
at Chicago, could unite again.
Would the old leadership accept
this decision, and go to work behind
the forces of the victorious revolu-
ton?
In an article in this space in last
Sundays Star, it was said that the
job Of uniting the party behind the
victor is the great function which q
convention is supposed to perform.
This convention, however, had
developed such wide cleavage In
the party-along lines of such basic
principle-that there seemed to be
real question whether the wounds
could ever be healed.
And so the last key moment Of
the week came when Gen. Eisen-
hover stood on the amphitheater
platform and called for unity-a
somewhat higher unity than the
kind which had been invoked by
every Taft speaker urging the peo-
pie to stay in line behind the poli-
ticians and their machine.
81 knew" he said, "that such Q
momentous campaign cannot be
won by few or by divided or by un.
certain forces"
That Is the challenge for the Re.
publican Party. It is much too early
to tell how the party will meet It
Senator Taft, of course, immedi.
ately joined the other candidates ia
pledging support to the Eisen-
hower-Nixon ticket. The coming
weeks will tell how much that
pledge means.
More Thon Bygones
II the Eisenhower campaign u
true to the promise Of its conven-
ton victory, more win be involved
than q sample willingness to let
bygoneS be bygones. There also
is the little matter of rededica-
ton OF the Republican Party to
new way Of political life, and
new standard Of political morality.
There is always something sad
about the end of convention. The
great crowd has left the hall. The
great fioodlights are extinguished
now, and the place Is dim. A.,
weary telegrapher sits In the middle
Of the press benches, tapping out
the last messages to the outside
world. A solitary sweeper moves
among the rows of empty seats.
pushing pile Of placards. cigarette
butts and confetti before him with
his broom.
But placards, cigarette butts and
confetti these are the least Of the
debris which has been swept away
this time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-08-07
126 Golfers To
Compete In Tourney

While incomplete, the draw for the
annual Oakland Country Club golf
tournament lists 1876 entrants, with
first round play to be completed by
August 10.
Last years top flight victor, Phil
Contic, is paired with Don Smith for
the first round of play. Wilbur Glenn,
Friendsville, last years second flight
winner, has not yet announced his
intentions to play in this match. Third
flight winner Bill Smith, Western
port, moved up to second flight this
year and is now matched against
George Kley. Fourth flight winner,
George Ord, Westernport, it matched
against Thomas Stevenson in the first
round.
Mrs. William Glotfelty, last years
top flight titlist in the womens con-
test, took her first game of the new
tournament yesterday by defeating
Mrs. James Pollock Mrs. Robert Ruck-
ert, second flight winner, has not
been paired for the first round and
consequently will take a bye.
The club now boasts a roll of 1872
playing members, it was reported to-
day. About $50 greens fees were col
lected in July, paid by outside mem
bers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-08-07
Seven Births Reported

The Garrett County Memorial hos
pital this morning reported "a adj
missions and "A discharges during the
past week, exclusive of newborn The
report covers the period beginning
July 31st and ending August 6. There
were also seven births this week:
On August ?, a son to Mr.. and Mrs
Fred P. Fulk, Crellin.
On August 3, a son to Mr.. and
Mrs. Clyde Miller, Route /, Tunnel
ton, W. Va.
On August 4, daughter to Mr..
and Mrs. Ray Eugene Article, Acct
dent; a son to Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert
Roy Smith, Corinth, w. Va; daugh-
ter to Mr.. and Mrs. Robert 0. Say
age, Oak Street, Oakland
On August 5, a son to Mr.. and
Mrs. Marion Hoffman, Eighth Street,
Oakland.
On August 6, son to Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Keith laugh, Star Route
Kitzmiller.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-08-07
% Alters Attend
Statewide Club Week

Twcnty-nine county 4-H'crs left for
College Park this morning. They will
join the Allcgany county group and
go by bus to attend the statewide
meeting.
Other All club meetings will be
held at Red Oak, August 18th, and
Grantsville, August II.
Homcmakers' club meetings: Mars
Hill, / 80, at the home of Mrs. II. 0.
Miller, August u. Deer Park, August
II, for a picnic McHenry, 1870,
August 18th. Mt. Lake-Loch Lynn,
1:3O, August 18th Altamont, 1880 p.
M, August 18th.
Two special meetings will be held
next week. The Family Life chair
men of the clubs will meet with Mrs
Moehn at the Accident Fire Hall at
1880 p. m, EST, August 18th, to plan
for next years program. Mrs. Jeanne
Moehn is the Family Life specialist of
the Extension service, University of
Maryland.
The wool mending training meet
ing will be held at 100 p. m, EST, in
the fire hall, for the Accident area,
August 18th.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-08-07
Contest Develops Over
Beer Application

Granting of a class d beer license
to Carl f. Burton was held up this
week pending ruling from the At
torney General on what constitutes
residence requirements.
Protest of granting the request was
lodged by r. F. Marsh and Thomas
Pratt who questioned Burton's length
of residence and having been estab-
lished in business the required length
of time. By law, year in business
and two years as a resident of the
county is necessary.
Burton has recently built business
establishment on the Crellin-O Oakland
road near Oak Grove.
In this weeks paper notice of APP
plication for a beer license appears
under the name of Flora j. Burton,
wife Of Burton.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-08-07
Hoover Receives
Suspended Sentence
In Auto Death Case

Twenty three year-old Albert Ray
Hoover, of Grantsville, driver of a car
that crashed and killed his father and
brother, was found guilty of man
slaughter by automobile last Friday
by Trial Magistrate Charles Zeller.
Magistrate Zeller suspended a fine
Of 500 to the father of two children,
telling him, "You will never forget
this tragedy throughout all your
life"
Killed in the accident July Is four
miles west of Frostburg on Route 40
were Simon Ray Hoover, 48, the
drivers father, and Harold Hoover,
20, his brother, both of Grantsville.
Previous to the crash, Hoover had
been arrested by Frostburg Police Of
ficer Lloyd Truly on charge Of reck-
less driving.
Testimony by State Police Trooper
Donald X. Wade showed that Hoover
lost control of his car as it descended
Little Savage Mountain. 1t went off
the road, skidding $40 feet and col
lided with an oncoming car operated
by Harold Whitehead, 80, of Frost
burg
The elder Hoover died on the way
to Miners Hospital after his skull was
crushed. Harold died when he was
pinned under the wreckage.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-08-07
Search For Rapist
Continued By Police

Search for the alleged rapist of a
13-year-old girl from Kitzmiller con
tinued this week after several leads
proved fruitless, States Attorney
Dwight Slower reported. Suspects
were questioned for hours, but none
appeared to satisfy the law enforce
ment officer to the extent of being
charged with the crime
Slower explained that they are pro-
ceeding with extreme care in bring
ing the charge in light of the eX-
IRENE penalty imposed by Maryland
for statutory rape.
The girl, who was visiting in Oak
land, was among four children picked
up by an unidentified man on the Oak
land-Crellin road two weeks ago. One
boy was let out at his home near
Oakland, and two of the children,
Kay and Jimmy Holler, were ordered
from the car and told to walk home.
The man refused to let the other girl
out. AS the Holler children walked
toward Crellin, the car passed, the
girl screaming for help.
Later she was released near the
home of Mrs. Robert Lantz, Hutton,
and related that she had been mo-
Tested. Medical examination later bore
this out.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-08-07
Bloodmobile Unit In
Friendsville, August -

Citizens of Friendsville will have
an opportunity of helping Garrett
County meet the goal of $50 pints of
blood when the Bloodmobile visits
Friendsville on 18th of August at the
Friendsville Fire Department from
100 to 700 p. m. daylight time.
Last weeks figures totaled over 1876
pledges for giving blood and more are
expected before the 18th. Mrs Marie
Guard, Friendsville, chairman of the
blood drive has started her house to
house campaign and with the aid Of
the local scouts has distributed hand
bills and pledge cards to make the
program a success.
Nurses and the registration COM
mittees of Oakland will go to Friends
Vile to aid them in their work, how
ever, the Friendsville Ladies will
furnish the Canteen service and sup
ply all workers with a supper.
M/Sgt. Kirby, recruiting chairman
for Garrett county, has announced
that he has received a letter of APP
probation from the blood center for
the extra visit to Oakland on July
18th when 68 persons gave blood in
the emergency drive. The letter
emphasized that the visit on the 18th
was extra and would not be marked
up against the Garrett County quota,
thus leaving Oakland with about II
percent of their yearly quota filled
and about 5th on the honor roll
group.
Before the next visit of the unit to
Oakland, all workers who previously
canvassed the area will be requested
to again contact eligible donors in
order to reach the quota in December.
Plans are underway at present for a
visit of the Bloodmobile to Kitzmiller
on the 18th of October.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-08-07
New Real Estate Co.
Formed In Oakland

Another real estate company was
started recently in Oakland and is
now operating under the name of
Treacy Real Estate.
William 0. Treacy, Oakland lawyer,
and Thomas w. Stevenson, local high
school teacher, head the company as
broker and salesman, respectively.
Both are bonded by the United States
Fidelity and Guarantee Corporation
and are set up to handle transactions
for all kinds of property.
They are maintaining offices in the
Treacy building, 26 Alder Street.