Republican leadership in Kansas was split on the Presidential choice for 1964 . At the April 1964 party convention in Topeka , Governor John Anderson and Senator James Pearson supported Nelson Rockefeller , Congressman Clifford Hope favored Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. , Congressman Bob Dole and conservative business leader Gorden Greb supported Goldwater . The Kansas Republican Party delegates threw their support to Goldwater . In an unprecedented move , the party denied its own governor , John Anderson , a position as a voting delegate to the 1964 Republican National Convention held in San Francisco , and described as the ugliest since 1912 , as entrenched moderates faced off against conservative insurgents . In an era in which a national consensus seemed to have coalesced around advancing civil rights , containing Communism and expanding government , the moderates believed they had to win to preserve the Republican Party . The conservatives wanted to contain the role of the federal government and roll back Communism
1964 Republican National Convention
1964 Republican National Convention
Kansas Republican Party