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Maryland's Governor Theodore McKeldin, an Eisenhower man himself, had some news to pass along to Maryland's 24 G.O.P. delegates: at any time between June 4 and the Republican Convention July 7, Ike Eisenhower will be available to G.O.P. delegates who want to call on him and ask questions. For Marylanders, the time and place for conferences with Ike will be June 11 at Columbia University in New York. Added McKeldin: "Expenses will be paid by the Eisenhower-for-President Committee."

The big blow began as soon as one of McKeldin's telegrams found its way to Washington. Bob Taft's campaign manager, David S. Ingalls, was looking for a way to distract attention from the Taft steal in Texas. Said Ingalls: ''Governor McKeldin's announcement that the expenses of delegates will be paid . . . comes pretty close to efforts at bribery and is only one example of the money poured by Wall Street into the Eisenhower campaign . . . Is the Eisenhower committee promising to pay their expenses to Chicago?" Estes Kefauver's campaign manager, Gael Sullivan, added a Democratic twist: "It is . . . as callous and calculated a come-on as the grab-and-squeeze tactics of Taft."

At first, Eisenhower headquarters kept a lofty silence. Then, as the wind began to scream outside, an Ike lieutenant blasted back. Said he: "The vicious and false charges . . . show the same desperation and lack of good morals as the Texas convention scandal . . . The Eisenhower national headquarters is not paying any delegate expenses. Many delegates have expressed a desire to meet with General Eisenhower, and they have been invited to meet with him. In accordance with usual custom, their expenses will be paid either by themselves or by. local committees, clubs or individuals."

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