Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-06-06
CONTESTS HAVE
BEEN DISPOSED
Of; L0WDEN IS
A BIG WHINE R
Delegate Disputes, Spectac-
uIar Feature of the Pre-
Convention Period, Are
Settled By Committee.
ILLINOIS GOVERNOR
GAINS BY DECISIONS
.Sixty-fiye Delegates Added
TO His List, While Wood
Gets 18, Johnson 4 and
Judge PritChard II,

tsf moRHlNo JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WIRE r.
Chicago, June 5.-Delcgate con,
tests which have furnished spec
tacular features of the pre- -conven,
tlon period Were finished tonight BY
the republican national committee
with decided advantage to Cover
nor Lowden.
Although on ac-ual instructions
of the 1877 contested delegates. Gen.
eral Wood received ~ and Cover.
nor Lowden 7, with 1l6 unin-
structed. The reported leanings OF
the disputed delegates favor the
Illinois governor.
The committee in the two Mis-
souri, seats refused to seat any con-
testants.
All of the eleven district dele
gates from Virginia aligned with
the Slemp faction were seated. The
committee rejected earnest pleas of
negro contestants for seats and
also decided separate anti-organi-
EhAloi tOulCStS III lIlt IllU anu
Eighth districts in favor of the
Slemp faction.
According to the reports of the
candidates favored by the dele
gates seated, the 1876 delegates in
volved were distributed as follows:
Wood, IS; Lowdon, 65; Johnson,
4 Judge Pritchard of North Car
olina, II; uninstructed and scat
tering, 81, with the two Missouri
contests rejected entirely.
All of the contests are expected
to be appointed to the convention
credentials committee and subject
to revision by the convention it.
self.
Moses Is Attacked.
The final days proceedings in
disposition of the contests which
have kept the committee on the
job for solid week were marked
by an attack on Senator Moses of
New Hampshire for his charges
tha& test6am slief ttts ass
been employed against Wood dele
gates and by unanimous adoption
o. a resolution looking to reorgan-
ization Of the republican party in
the solid south"
Whereas it is increasingly ap-
parent that the sO-called solid
south is in fact an economic issue
inclined to the principles
Of the republican party, and
Whereas. it rs obvious from re-
peated contests before the national
and other facts no less
,nntth1ina
in many of these states are not In
,reasing in proportion to the in
,reasing belief in republican prin-
eiples.
"Resolved, that the chairman of
he national committee appoint a
special committee of three of its
members, one of whom shall be
rom the south, who shall carefully
md impartial'y study the whole
political situation in the south and
ilso its relations to that in the
north with a view of reporting at
he next meeting of the national
committee. or as soon as the spe-
,ial committee thus appointed shall
1e ready, how the republican party |
n states of the south shall be re-
organized or constituted to make |
: a more effective agent for the |
ipreading and recording of repub-
lean principles and of election of
'epublican electors"
Chairman Hays of the national
will be an eX-officio
member of this subcom mittee.
Despite the arguments of the
legro contestants, the committee
eated all the so-called regular, or
organization, delegations from both
'exas and Virginia.