Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-04
SQUARE DEAL FOR
VOTERS WITHOUT
REGARD To RACE
INSISTED UPON
Delegate Conventions Must
Be Held in Places Where
Color Is No Barrier to.
Participation, Ruling,
$3.50 SPLIT MADE IN
FLORIDA DELEGATION
Decision Is Considered a
Victory for Wood North
Carolina Contest Settled
By Seating the Whites,

s,H RHlHe JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED ~iHsl
Chicago, June 3.-Besides set
tling the delegation contests from
Florida by splitting the decision,
the republican national committee
took today what many members
construed to be one of the most
important actions of years respect
ing the party's vote in southern
states.
Aroused by the number of dele
gate contests in which evidence
was brought out that district con-
ventions had been held in places
where negroes We're excluded by
custom or practice, the committee
by unanimous resolution gave no.
tice that conventions for the selec-
tion of delegates in 1924 must be
held in places where race was no
barrier to participation.
A resolution to that effect Of
fered by Charles B. Warren, ma
tional committeeman from Michi-
gan, aroused lively dicussion ana
some hot retorts from southern
committee members, because in its
language it originally referred TO
the southern states specifically.
When amended to refer to all
states alike, however, it found no
opposition and the southern COM
mitteemen voted for it.
Compromise In Florida.
4 - IT, hn
was a Wood victory, In the sense
that it keeps six votes for the gem
eral on the roll when his candidacy
was threatened with the loss of all
votes from the state. Out of a
mesh of legal technicalities, the
committee came to the conclusion
that in strict legal sense neither
the delegates at large of the So
called Gerow faction headed by
National Committeeman Bean,
which are counted in the Wood
column, nor the delegates at large
headed by H. L. Anderson, of jack
sonville, which are counted for Sem
ator Johnson, ought to be seated
1t was confronted, however, with
practically abolishing the repub-
lican party in Florida, If it de-
clined to seat somebody. National
Committeeman Street, Of Alabama,
led the fight for seating the whole
Gerow faction and Committeeman
Work, of Colorado, fathered move
to seat neither. Mr.. warren, or
Michigan, however, presented the
by which both sets OF
delegates at large of the Gerow |
and Anderson factions were ordered |
seated with half vote each. The |
contest against the four Gerow dis |
trict delegates collapsed at the last
m ement and thev were ordered |
seated. The result gave National ,
Bean six votes out |
of eight in the state delegation and
seemed to forecast his reelection
to the national committee.
Several Contests Settled.
The North Carolina contest,
which was etraight out and out
black and white issue, resulted in
the seating of the white delegation !
ed by John M. Morehead, of Char
otte, North Carolina, national com
In the contest from
he sixth district of Tennessee one
delegate counted in the Wood col
INN was seated. In the second
oklahoma district, two regularly
.eported delegates, uninstructed,
we're seated and the contest was
dismissed. The contest in the fifth
district involved the or
of National Committee
nan McGraw. His delegates pre-
allied and four were seated with
,alf vote each. A similar contest
rom the fourth Oklahoma district
vas referred to sub b-committee.
The days work disposed of thirty |,
,otes and still left seventy-fi five In
contest. In all, sixty-two conven-
ion seats out of 1877 contested had
,een decided, but the remaining
ontests promise to consume less ,
ime and may be finished up by
The Georgia case still I
vas awaiting decision when the /
ommittee adjourned until tomor- /
ow.
The lineup of delegates in the d
arious columns stood this way at 1
he close of today's work:
Wood, III; Johnson, liz; Low
en-, sc; Harding, 80; Poindexter,
4. Sproul. 76; Sutherland, 16;
%. 4
Remaining in contest, rs; unin- 4
tructed, 445--total, 9S2. s
After the days session all the y
were guests at the q
nnual dinner given in their honor t
y Fred w. Upham, treasurer. S