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CONTEST HEARING
Arkansas Regulars Win Seats
in Convention.
RAE QUESTION INVOLVED
Alabama Claimant, Wood Man,
Fails to Appear and Case is Dis
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Ch&aNn, June 1.-The Republican
national coErmittee opened its hearing
on 137 contests over seats in the ma
ttossE eorventiOn.
TIA Contests involve the right of
merry ene-seventh of all the delegates
% occupy their seats.
By unanimous vote the committees
hearings. w. H. Hays, the national
chairman, made the recommendation,
as he previously announced he would
and there was no opposition in the
committee. 1t was decided to take
I'D contests in alphabetical order.
Many, of the cOntesting negro dele
cations from The southern states were
on hand early. Mr.. Hays was an early
arrival. Frank Fl. Hitchcock also was
on hand early and had series of con-
ferences with committeeman and con-
teStantS
The first contest, that from the
fourth district of Alabama, was aban-
doned when the committee called it.
The contestant, w. H. Nixon, of
Selma, Ala, made no appearance. The
regularly certified delegate, J. B. At
kinson. of Clanton, was seated. Mix
on was reported to favor Wood
The hearing Of contestants was
reached sooner than expected. Pre-
liminary business was quickly disposed
of, and the committee adopted a rule
national cOmmitteeman's proxy
must be held within his own state
Oliver D. Street, Alabama commit
tee member, told the committee the
Nixon contest was made out of the
whole cloth" The committee adopted
unanimously a motion dismissing the
contest.
In the Arkansas confess the fight
was between white and 'black and
tan" groups The latter bOlted the
state convention.
John 4. Hibbler. negro attorney of
Little Rock. presented the case for the
contestants The case for the dele
gates chosen at the regular safe con-
vention was presented by Wallace
Townsend.
A committeeman asked if represen-
tation for the negro would not he
likely to bring ou. more votes. 81
THAT brings up the issue square
ly," responded Mr.. Townsend. You
will never break the solid south with
negro Republican party. The vote
in 1916 showed q small ratio of sup
port of the party by negroes in Ar
Kansas" he said
The committee decided unanimously
to seat the regularly reported dele
gates at large, headed by Fl. l.. Rem.
mel, of Little Rock The unsuccess,
full contestants were headed by E. G.
Morris, a negro of Helena.
In the Arkansas district contests
the committee voted to seat A. C.2Rem-
MEL of Little Rock, and George p
Owen, of Conway, the regularly. re,
ported delegates from the fifth dis
trict Three negro contestants, who
had unsuccessfully sought admission
to the district convention brought the
contest
For use by the convention creden
tials committee, which will hear ap
p6dIS, TedSOuS lOE the AIhdllSdS uSSl
sion, placed in the record, were that
at all times, in the state convention
there was majority of 347 state dele
gates. The record also declared de
cision in the state convention in favor
of seating the boiling negroes would
OF have changed the result
The question of what to do with the
surplus delegates was postponed.
Fifteen of seventeen Georgia seats
are in dispute in what promises to be
the most bitterly fought of all the con
tests, with direct issues between the
Lowden and Wood forces. The 'blacE
and tam convention elected a com
plete delegation headed by Henry Lin
coin Johnson. of Atlanta. They were
listed officially as unpledged, but Gov
ernOr Lowden'S campaign manager ties
titled he sent $4,000 of Lowden money
70 Johnson The Wood group, headei
by Roscoe Pickett, later elected fifteer
delegates Frank Hitchcock, one ii
the Wood managers, told the senate
committee he sent $4,000 to Pickett
when it was reported "the opposition
was spending considerable money"