The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-03
LILY WHITES Get
ORDERS TO QUIT
jim CROW TRICK
In Future Must Allow Negroes
to Attend Convention.
National Committee Passes
Resolution by Unanimous Vote.
LOWDEN SCORES MOST HEAVILY
Secured Twenty-Five More
Delegates Thru Decisions.
Both Rival Delegations in Mis-
souri, District Thrown Out.
LOWDEN SCORES MOST HEAVILY
Secured Twenty-Five More
Delegates Thru Decisions.

Chicago. June 3.-By unanimous
resolution today the Republican COM
mittee directed Chairman Hays to
notify all state organizations that they
must discontinue holding local con-
ventions for election of national dele
gates in places where it is the custom
and practice to refuse admission of
negroes.
After the rehearing the Florida case
got another postponement' decision
being put over to 8 p. m. meanwhile
the committee took up the North
Carolina contest where a contesting
delegation asking for the seats
of the Morehead factions had been
certified. The Morehead delegates
were seated. The committee then
took up the Oklahoma contest.
White Delegates Win.
The vote was made on the motion
of Committeeman, Warren of Michigan
and followed the contest in the Second
Oklahoma congressional district where
the decision was made that the white
delegation was legally entitled to the
seats
Evidence was offered during the
hearing on the Oklahoma contests
tending to show that negroes were
barred from the district convention
which was held at the biggest hotel
in Muskogec. Okla. Warren pointed
tfcularly to the Oklahoma case.
"But," he said. "a mo iority of the
contests this year as in former yoNrs
have arisen from the fact that lis
trict and state conventions in the
south are often held in places where
NEGROES are not permitted"
: In the Sixth Tennessee district. 1t
Was announced that Harry A. Luck, of
Nashville. had withdrawn his contest.
J. c. r. Mccall of Nashville. unin-
struc-ed was seated. He was claimed
for Wood.
The first contest taken up today was
the suspended Florida case, the dis
pute between the Wood faction headed
b. National Committeeman Bean and
that led by H. L. Anderson, of jack
sonville. reported to favor Johnson.
Lowdcn Scored Heaviest.
The apparent score to date in the
mater of delegates seated was: Gov
ernor Frank o. Lowden. 21; Mai. Gen.
Leonard Wood, 8; Senator johnson, 2.
In the case of the Fifth congress
sional district of Missouri, both the
Lowden and Wood delegations of two
men each were thrown out. This re-
duces the total temporary roll of the
national convention to 9S2 and makes
only 492 necessary for choice.
First Division In Committee.
The first divisions in votes of the
national committee relative to the con-
testing delegations came yesterday
sional district of Minnesota and the
second on the Fifth Missouri. The
Minnesota contest was between a
johnson and a Wood delegation, the
former winning SO to u.
The vote by states was: For seating
the johnson Observation-Disclosures
California, Connecticut, Delaware
Idaho. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ken
lucky. Louisiana, Maryland. Massa-
chusetts. Michigan. Mississippi, Mis-
souri,. Montana. New Hampshire, New
Jersey New York, North Carolina
Ohio. Oregon, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina. South Dakota, Texas, Yer
mont Virginia. Washington, West
Virginia, Wisconsin. Wyoming, Alaska
District of Columbia, Hawaii and
Porto Rico.
Opposed-Alabama. Arizona. Colo
rado Kansas. Nebraska. Nevada. New
Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma
Rhode Island, Tennessee and Philip
pine Islands.
Cases Scheduled Today.
The next division was on the mo.
zion to seat the Lowden delegation il
the Fifth Missouri district, opposed by
a Wood delegation. This was defeat
ed, % to 20. But this action lost mos
Of its significance when the committed
decided to refuse both delegation,
seats.
The first cases to be taken up toda,
were those II contests in Florida anC
fifteen in Georgia, both OF which haC
been referred to sub committee ees
Next On the calendar was that of th'
district delegates in MississippiS tn,
dele lates at large from that state hav
ing becr determined yesterday.
Another Wood Man Seated
The committee voted unanimousl,
to seat j. c. r. Mccall of Nashville
f, Tenn, as the delegate from the Fourtl
congressional district of Tennessee.
Mccall is understood to be 70
Wood T. c. Moore of Nashville wa
seated as McCall's alternate.
The seating of Mccall and Moor
was made following an announcement
that the official delegate. Harry Z
Luck of Nashville, and his alternate
j. II. Austin. had withdrawn.