The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-09
REHEARINC OF
COP. CONTESTS
CAME OUT TIE
Credentials Committee Agrees
on Permanent Roll Call.
LOwden and Wood Each Lose
and Gain Two.
REPORT GOES TO CONVENTION
Session Lasted Until 4:3O
O'Clock This Morning.
Two of Contesting Missouri
Delegates Are Seated.

Chicago, June 9.-The credentials
committee of the Republican national
committee completed its work of
making up the permanent roll of that
body at 8 a. m. today after being in
session thirteen hours.
The committee reviewed the 1877
contest cases heard by the national
committee last week and reversed
that body's findings in but three cases.
The national committee action in I'M
seating two Missouri delegates was
reversed, bringing the vote of the con-
sary to nominate.
Report Goes To Convention.
The committee seated one of the
contesting groups of two delegates
after the national committee had
eliminated both contesting delegations
from the temporary roll. The Gre
dentials committee was to submit its
report to the national convention
when the latter body reconvened to-
day.
The credentials committee session
resembled nothing SO much as a sky
rocket. 1t started off in a shower of
bitterly partisan sparks, involving the
candidates. of Major General Wood
and Governor Lowden, and wound up
in a sleep-deadened routine in which
the members inviting beds doomed
larger to them than anything less
tangible.
The conclusion was a tie In the
ing gained one delegate in Georgia
and one in Tennessee at the expense
of Lowden, and the latter having won
two in Missouri.
The meeting opened with an unex-
pected fight over the chairman.
charles II. 1nnes, Massa chusetts, was
opposed by Edward P. Duffield, state
chairman of the Wood organization in
New Jersey. Duffield was elected %
to 16. The result occasioned some
muttering by the defeated faction, who
made much of the fact that Frank
II. hitchcock, Woods campaign man
ager. had been visiting with the
committee members for an hour be-
fore they got down to business
W. T. Laube, Washington, was
elected secretary by reclamation
Charles B. Carter, Maine. appeared in
committee. He is Wood man.
Negro Retains Seat.
In the debate that ensued in the
Georgia case. Gregory Page, New
Mexico, tore into Henry Lincoln John
son, negro national committeeman
elect from Georgia, who conducted the
case for himself and associate dele
gates.
A roll call was taken and Johnson's
four Lowden delegates were retained
on the convention personnel 81 to %.
The next division came in the
Fourth congressional district. This
time the Wood faction caught the
Lowdenites mapping and seated c. D.
Williams in place of r. B. Butts.
John W. Smith. Michigan, wearied
of the partisan lines along which the
session was developing, declared:
I'm not here representing either
Wood or Lowden. Don't let US fool
ourselves; we're not deciding these
cases according to the evidence"
This started a sort of testimonial
meeting in which several members
openly declared their preference re-
garding candidates..
When the Fifth Oklahoma district
was called, Miss Ethel D. Mckinley,
Marion, Ind, woman Republican or
ganizer. was granted a hearing on be-
half of the Wood delegation that had
previously been seated by the national
committee. This comprised W. H. P.
Trudgeon, Oklahoma City; Chris Mad
sen, Guthrie: Mrs. Frank P. Northrup,
Oklahoma City, and Mrs. ]. S. Pear
The action of the national committee
was sustained.
The Fifth Missouri in which the
national committee threw out both
sets of delegates because of an al
legged fraudulent primary, gave Page
the Lowden elegation-Robert ].
Flick, Kansas City. and Jesse Martin.
independence, had used gunner
and mustard gas to break up the OPP
positions conventions. The commit
tee first voted down a motion to up
hold the action of the national COM
mittee 36 to IL. then seated Flick and
Martin 27 to 20.
The last fireworks before the COM
mittee lapsed into desuetude came in
the Tenth Tennessee case. The ma
tional committee seated Robert
Church, Memphis negro and Harvard
graduate, supposed to be for Lowden.
opposed by Charles B. Quinn, Mem
phis, committed to Wood.
Mrs. Marshall Priest. delegate at
large. objected to Church. He was
ousted by an oral vote