Arizona republican., 1920-06-05
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CHICAGO. June 4.-Lowden forces counted 2S additional delegates into their column as a result of todays de- cisions by the republican national com mittee. Tn deciding the Georgia con tests, the Wood forces succeeded in having the committee accept only enc delegate pledged to the general, when work was stopped for the night.
 All attempts at split decisions were lost. While various committeeman professed to see behind the arguments for party harmony. which were od- vanced, a reflection of personal vlews as they might be favorable to Governor Lowden and General Wood, The r,In- mittee in repeated roll calls refused 70 make compremise and proceeded to make decisions on the evidence cf party regularity in the local and dis 1 trict machinery.
 Lowdeh Wins Consistently Lowden forces started off on win 1 ming streak by winning the contests I in the eight congressIonal districts or I Mississippi They cla1n all these del- I egates They won two votes in the second congressional district Of OlSia- I homa by the seating of Dr. Hugn Scott of Hoidenville and Albert Kelly oI Bristow.
 l Then the Lowden chiefs claimed an other addition when :le committee voted to seat the regularly reported delegates from South Caroline led Dg i National Committeeman Tolhert.
 The Tenth district of Tennessee went to the regularly reported delegate, k R. Church, a negro of Memphis put that was claimed by none of the var ious managers.
 The spectacular decision of the cay was the hard fought and long delayed contest from Georgia, where the dele gates. headed by Henry Lincoln John son. an Atlanta negro, who, IL Is testl- 1 fled before the senate committee lt- 1 vestigating campaign expenditures re ] ceived S9o00 from the Lowden cam paign fund, were resisting the attack I of a set of contestingS delegates ad- l mittedIy organized by Frank IT. Hitch l cock and counted for the candidacy or ] General Wood.
 Six Georgia Districts Undecided Before the committee adjourned 10 continue in a night session. Johnson s big four-the delegates at large-had been seated on the ground of organiza- tion regularity and the first and second 1 Georgia congressional districts had been seated the same way. The eYi- dence in the six district sremaining in contest was said to be much of the i same nature.
 South Carolina and Georgia contests ] brought the race issue and the color line into the deliberations of the com mittee despite all efforts to keep them l out The contest over the Tolbert del- egates from South Carolina brought up the much discussed question of whether the republicg T. party in the southern j states would do better without associa- T ton with the negro. The contesting l delegates in the South Carolina case stirred up a row in which the lie was frequently passed, charges of machine rule" to perpetuate 'an office holder s md neas- fai7 that rnngi- tions were such that the republican vote had been reduced by the alleged methods to minimum were made.
 Tolbert illustrates With Jig
 The hearing furnished fireworks and vaudeville. Gales of laughter, roars of cheers and waves of applause swept the committee room. National Com mitteeman Tolbert became so enthu- siastie in his description of his Re publicans that he actually did a dozen 4 steps of jig and pranced up and down the aisle. Negro witnesses sup porting the claims of the contesting delegation, testifying to their inability to take part in the Tolbert faction conventions, declared they had been threatened with death if they at tempted to attend them. Stacks of af fidavits presented in support of the claims of the regularity of the Tolbert delegates. they declared, had been cooked up" since the convention and there were broad intimations of how the signatures might have been ob- tained.
 The committee decided. however. that so far as the evidence before il went, Tolbert had the evidence of reg ulaIity in the South Carolina conVen- ton proceedings and seated Tolbert' 2 delegates.
 Renewed pleas for a split decision came with the calling of the Georgia case. National Committeeman Jack son of Georgia, who is retiring from the committee and withdrawing from the state, made a special plea that the national committee establish harmony among the factions there and preclude contests at the next national conVen- ton by seating all the delegates and giving each half vote. The4comnit- tee. however bowled the suggestion over with quick vote and stood tight on the principle.
 Wood Wins in Sixth Georgia
 Henry Lincoln Johnson and his small army of negro cohorts waited in the anterooms for the decision and when the news of the decision favor able to him reached them scenes which are familiar to any one who has att tended an old-fashioned southern camp meeting were re-enacted.
 The shouts and screams of the John son party resounded through the Coli scum Admiring negroes danced about ] their leaders in a wild delirium and raised such a din that the committee in the next room had difficulty in pro ceeding to the consideration of the district contests.
 At it's night session the committee continued seating the Henry Lincoln Johnson district delegates from Geor- gia Those from the Third and Fourth districts were seated on the first votes.
 The committee adjourned. leaving contests in the Seventh, Ninth and Tenth Georgia districts to be decided -i tomorrow. In the contest decided, the Johnson faction, listed as favorable to Governor Lowden, got the four dele gates -at-large and the delegates from five districts.
 The Pickett faction, reported favor able to General Wood, was seated in ] the sixth.