Arizona republican., 1920-06-04
[RepubIican A. p. Leased wire1


 CHICAGO, June 3.-Beside settling the delegation contests from Florida by splitting the decision the Repub- lcan national committee took today what many members construed to be one of the most important actions of years respecting the party's vote in Southern states.
 Aroused by the number of delegate contests in which evidence was brought that district conventions had been held in places where negroes were eX- cluded by custom or practice, the com mIttee by unanimous resolution gave notice that conventions for the selec- ton of delegates in 1924 must be held in places where race was no barrier to participation.
 A resolution to that. effect offered by Charles B. Warren, national com mitteeman from Michigan, aroused lively discussion and some hot retorts because in its language it originally referred to the southern states spe- officially. When amended to refer to all states alike, however. it found no opposition and the southern commit Jeemen voted for it.
 Victory for Wood Faction
 The decision in the Florida case was a Wood victory in the sense that It keeps six votes for the general on the roll when his candidacy was threat eneQ with IDc JOSS or all NOteS ltOIA lLS state. Out of a mesh of legal techni- calities the committee came to the conclusion that in a 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 Jacksonville, which are counted for Senator Johnson, ought to be seated It was confronted, however with practically abolishing the Re- publican 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 oi Colorado fathered the move to seat neither. .Ir. Warren of Michigan however. presented the compromise 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 district delegates collapsed al the last moment and they were or dered seated. The result gave Na- tionaI Committeeman Bean SIX votes out of eight in the state delegation and seemed to forecast his reelection to the national committee.
 North Carolina Whites Win
 The North Carolina contest. whief was a straight out and out black and
 
 the white delegation led by John M Morehead of Charlotte, North Caro- lima national committeeman. In tn contest from the Sixth district o Tennessee one delegate counted in tn Wood column was seated. In tn Second Oklahoma district two regu larly reported delegates, uninstructed were seated and the contest was dis missed. The contest in the Fifth Ok lahoma district involved the organiza tion of National Committeeman Me Graw. His delegates prevailed an four were seated with half vote eacl A similar contest from the Fourth OK lahoma district was referred to a sub committee
 The day's work disposed of 80 vote and still left 75 in contest. Tn all, convention seats out of 137 conteste had been decided, but the remainin contests promise to consume less tim and may be finished up by Saturda. The Georgia case still was awaitin decision when the committee ao journeS until tomorrow.
 The lineup of delegates in the va rious columns stood this way at u close of today's work:
 Wood, IT; Johnson. liz; Lowde e6: Harding. 3es PoindeXter, T. Sproul. 76; Sutherland. 16: Pritchar % Remaining in contest, 15; uniI structed 445; total, 9S2.