Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-09
STEAM ROLLER
ISPUTTO WORK
ONCREDENTIALS
Committee Stays on Job All
Night and Reverses Only
Three Cases.
984 VOTES, 4s3 TO WIN

CHICAGO, June o.-The credentials
ccmmitte of the republican national COM
mittee completed it's work OF making mp
the permanent roll Of that body at
a, m. today after being in session thir-
teen hours.
The committee reviewed the 1877 con-
fest cases heard by the national CONF
mittee last week and reversed that body'a
findings in only three cases.
The national committee action in un-
seating two Missouri delegates was re-
versed, bringing the vote of the conven-
ton back to 9s4, with 493 necessary to
nominate.
The meeting opened with an unexpected
fight over the craftsmanship.
Charles Innes, Massachusetts, was op-
posed by Edward P. Duffield, state chairs
man of the Wood organization In New
Jersey.
Dunield was elected, twenty-eight TO
sixteen.
The result occasioned some mutterin@
by the defeated section, who made much
of the fact that Frank Fl. Hitchcock,
Woods campaign manager, had been
visiting" with committee members for
an hour before they got down to BUSH
ness.
w T. Laube, Washington, was elected
secretary by reclamation. Charles B.
Carter, Maine, former University of Mich
igan guard, and twice picked for the all
Amrican footbalN eleven, appeared IN the
role of informal attorney for the COM
mittee.
He is Wood man.
GEORGIA CONTEST
BRINGS HOT DEBATE.
In the debate that ensued in thu
Georgia case. Gregory Page Of New
~ T0husOFl
negro national elect, who
conducted the case for himself and as
ISOLATED delegates.
A roll call was taken and Johnson's
: four Lowden delegates were retained on
the convention personnel.
The next division came in Georgia's
Fourth congressional district.
This time the Wood faction caught the
Lowdenites mapping and seated c. o.
Williams in place of R. B. Butts.
John W. Smith, Michigan, wearied or
the partisan lines along which the ses-
sion was developing, declared: I'm
not here representing either Wood or
Lowden. Don't let's fool ourselves. We're
not deciding these cases according to the
evidence"
This started a sort of testimonial meet
ing in which several members openly de-
clared their preference regarding can
didacies.
John Moorman. Indiana, was insistens
that the record show he proposes to
vote for Hiram Johnson"
OKLAHOMA CONTEST
STANDS AS DECIDED.
When the fifth Oklahoma district was
called, Miss Ethel Delight Mckinley,
Marion, Ind, woman republican organ
izer. was granted a hearing in behalf OF
/ the Wood delegation that had previous
/ " been seated by the national COMMITTEES.
/ The contest stood as decided by the
national committee.
/ The fifth Missouri, in which the ma
/ tionaI committee threw out both sets OF
delegates because of an alleged fraudu-
! lent primary, gave Page an opportunity
/ to make charges that the Lowden dele
gation-Robert J. Flick, Kansas City.
/ and J. E. Martin, Independence-ha
useg gun men and mustard gas TO break
/ up the opposition's conventions.
/ The committee first voted down mo-
( ton to uphold the action of the national
/ committee, 81 to IL, then seated Flick
and Martin, 81 to 20.
The last fireworks before the commit
tee lapsed into dessuetude came in the
tenth Tennessee case.
The national committee seated Robert
R. Church, Memphis negro and Harvard
graduate. supposed to be for Lowden,
opposed by Charles B. Quinn, Memphis,
committed TO Wood
Mrs. Marshall Priest, delegate at large,
objected to Church
He was ousted by an oral vote.