The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-06-09
CREDENTIALS
COMMIT
CHANGES VOTE
Wood and Lowden Each
Gain Two Votes by Action
in Credentials Body.
ny A. o. HAYWARD


CHICAGO. June General Leonard
Wood gained two votes through action
taken early today by the convention
credentials committee on contested cleo
tton cases.
Gov Lowden lost the two votes gain
cd bv Gen wood but regained them
by decision or the committee seating
two delegates from Kansas City. No.
which district has been denied repre-
sentation by the national committee.
GAIN FROM GEORGIA
The two votes gained by Gen Wood
we're from the Fourth Georgia and the
Tenth Tennessee districts The COM
mittee reversed the action OF the nat
ional committee in these contested cas-
IS. unseating the delegates who par
ticipated in the temporary organiza-
tion of the convention and seating G.
r. Williams. Georgia. and Charles r.
Quinn. Tennessee. The unseated men
were for Lowden. Those seated arc
for Wood
A total 81 los contests appealed from
tho national committee were disposed
Of by the credentials committee At an
all night sitting The decisions Of the
national committee were allowed IN
All except four cases. The credent-
ials committee report finally to the
convention thus morning The COM
rnfttee finished its labors at o'clock.
No ACTION FOR OREGON
No action was taken by the commit
tne on the Oregon contest. 1t was held
that this case involved an interpreta-
ton Of the extent or the binding force
Of the state preference primary law
over which the COMMITTEES had no jur-
isdiction Sanfeld Macdonald John
son manager in Oregon. defeated for
delegate, brought the contest against
wallace McCamant, a sitting delegate.
on the ground that MeCamant refused
to vote for johnson. although the state
had instructed for Johnson in its pri-
rnaries
The committee defeated a resolution
recommending that no congressional
district convention shall he entitled
hereafter to = delegate in the national
convention unless it shall have cast at
least 1000 republican votes for the
president at the last election This
resolution was offered by John P.
Cray. Of Idaho. It was aimed at the
vexatious contests habitually coming
from the Southern states.
READY TO REPORT TODAY
hv the convention in disposing Of the
contests following an announcement by
Chairman Edward D. Duffield. Of New
Jersey. that he had been informed the
resolutions committee would he ready
to report the platform 10 the conven-
tion at noon today. The permanent OF
Eanization Of the convention had to be
perfected 70 receive the report from
the resolutions committee
The so-called Lily White cases from
tho Southern states were given scant
attention. Delegations of women APP
peared in the Oklahoma and Tennessee
contests. opposing the seating Of col
ored men as delegates Their argu-
p1ents had influence in the case Of Rob-
ert r Church. Tenth Tennessee who
was unseated The Oklahoma contests
stood as decided BY the national COM
mittee.
JOHNSON HAS SOME FIGHT
Henry Lincoln Johnson. the negro
leader Of Georgia. won his fight to re-
tain his seat Is egate-at-large from
Georgia He may become the repub-
iran national committeeman from that
srate. The seating Of johnson was op-
POSED vigorously by a contesting Geo
reia delegation Of whites and negroes.
w3pn we're represented BY former Gov.
Btpjamin w. Hooper. Of Tennessee
tYou are asked to set aside me and