Brownell and his allies, especially Governors Sherman Adams of New Hampshire and Arthur Langlie of Washington, appealed to the convention on moral grounds: the GOP nominee would fight the Democrats on the issue of corruption, so he had to guarantee integrity in his own campaign. This accusation put the Taft forces back on their heels; in a series of narrow votes the convention agreed to accept the “Fair Play” language and awarded to Eisenhower the delegates from Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas. The tumultuous first day was, as Brownell put it, “a disastrous day for Taft.” He was stuck 100 votes
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