New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-05
.Lowden Gains
in
Southern States
Decisions of the National
Committee Give Illinois.
an Seventeen Votes From
Georgia Districts Alone
Wood Men Denied Seats
Negroes Cause Healed Dis
cussion, in Which the
Lie Frequently Is Passed

CHICAGO, June 4 By The Associ-
ated Press) Lowden forces counted
twenty-eight delegates into their col
umn as the result of to-day's decisions
on contests by the Republican national
committee.
All attempts a split decisions were
lost. While various committeeman pro-
fesscd to see behind the arguments
for party harmony which were advo-
Gated reflection of personal views as
they might be favorable to Governor
Lowdcn and General Wood, the com
mttee in repeated roll calls refused
to make compromises and proceeded
to make decisions on the evidence of
party regularity in the local and dis
trict machinery.
Iowden forces started off on a win
ming streak by winning contests in. the
eight Congro ssional Districts of Mis-
sissippi They claim all these dele
gates. They won a half vote also by
The seating Of DR.. Hugh Scott. Of
Holdenville. and Albert Kelly, Of
BrlstOW, respectively.
South Carolina for Lowden
The Lowdcn chiefs claimed another
addition of support when the COM
mittee voted to seat the regularly re-
ported delegates from South Carolina,
led by National Committeeman Tol-
bert. The Tenth District of Tonnes
see went to the regularly reported
delegate, Robert Church. a negro, Of
Memphis, but that was claimed by none
OF the various managers.
The spectacular decision OF the day
vas the hard-fought and long delayed
contest from Georgia, where the dele
gates, headed By Henry Lincoln John
son, an Atlanta negro. who. it was
testified before the Senate Committee
investigating campaign expenditures,
received $4,000 for the Lowdcn cam
paign fund, were resisting the attacks
OF a set of contesting delegates admit
tedly organized by Frank II. Hitch
cock and counted for the candidacy
Of General Wood
Before the committee adjourned to
continue in night session Johnson's
big four-the delegates at large had
been seated, on the ground Of organize
ton regularity in their convention
proceedings, and the First and Second
Georgia Congressional Districts also
had been voted the same way. The
ing IN contest was said to be much
of the same nature. At its night SEX
sion the committee continued seating
the Henry Lincoln Johnson district
dlegates from Georgia. Those from
the Third and Fourth districts were
seated on the first votes
Race Issue Brought Up
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
out The contest over the Tolbert
delegates from South Carolina INT
mp the much discussed QUESTION of
whether the Republican party in the
Southern states would do better with
out ASSOCIATION with the negro. The
contesting delegates in the South
Carolina case stirred up a row in
which the lie was frequently passed.
Charges Of 'maChine rule" 10 perpetu-
ate "an officeholders trust" and fur
Dhel charges that coalitions were such
that the Republican vote had been
reduced by the alleged methods to
minimum were made
The hearing furnished fireworks and
vaudeville. Gales of laughter, roars of
cheers. waves Of applause swept the
committee room. National Committees
man Tolbcrt became 50 enthusiastic
in his description of his Republican,
ism that he actually did dozen steps
Of q jig ard pranced up and down the
aisle. Negro witnesses supporting the
claims Of the contrasting delegation.
testifying to the inability to take part
IN the Tolbert faction conventions. de-
clared they had been threatened with
death if they attempted to attend
them. Stacks of ahidavts presented
IN support Of the claims of the regu-
declared, had been cooked up since
the convention and there were broad