In 1960 , she founded the Northern Illinois Conservatives with the hopes of creating a voting bloc that would move the Republican Party further right . The organization lobbied delegates at the 1960 Republican National Convention to take up their positions including fiscally conservative stances against taxation and spending and opposition to the 1960 Democratic National Convention 's platform in favor of civil rights for African Americans . O'Neill would blame Nixon 's loss on his stances as a Rockefeller Republican
1960 Democratic National Convention 's
1960 Democratic National Convention
Lottie Holman O'Neill