Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-06-03
CUMMINGS VISITS
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National Democratic Chairman
Is WelcOmed-PhOtographed
With Republican Chairman
Hays

| tests to-day was enlivened by some
, notify debated cases and also by a
visit from Homer S. Cummings. chair
| man of the Democratic national com
mitteo. Mr.. Cummings, availing himself
| Of the open sessions. VISITED the hear
! ing room whore he became the center
of good natured reception which al
most drowned out the proceedings He
was photographed with Republican
! Chairman Hays and looked over the
, Coliseum for ideas to take to San
| Francisco.
In it's days work on the contests, the
committee threw out both sets of dele
! gates. which asked seats for the fifth
congressional district of Missouri. the
Kansas City district. A fierce and
heated controversy was airel in
long hearing.
Deciding the first case affecting the
strength of Senator Jononsons forces
in the convention, the committee, on
roll call, voted to seat the delegates
from the tenth Minnesota district who
are uninstructed but counted as favor
able to the candidacy of the California
senator. The defeated delegation was
pledged to the candidacy of Gen. Wood.
In the Mississippi contests the COM
mittee decided to seat the delegates at
large headed by National Committee
man Mulvihll. but did not decide on
the contests from the eighth congress
sional district because it was neces-
sary to have a subcommittee look
over the proofs. In the louisiana con-
tests tho committee voted to seat the
officially reported delegation headed
by National Committeeman Emil
Kunt of Ne Orleans, which was unin-
structed but claimed for the Wood
J forces and part of the Lowden man.
ayers.
: The contest from the fourth Mis-
souri, district was quickly disposed of
by seating the regularly reported dele
cation. uninstructed but claimed by
the Wood forces One of the con-
testants. John Albus of St Joseph.
who was mentioned in testimony be-
fore the Senate committee az having
been paid $4,000 from the Lowden cam
paign fund, did not appear to press
his case.
The real sensational fight Of the day
came on the contest from the Kansas
City district. which the committee finally
solved by refusing to seat anybody.
Charges OF strong arm" politics. meet.
ings broken UP by mustard gas bombs
women intimdated by negroes and gag
, rule, flew thick and fast. Committee
men denounced tho situation in the dis
trict as 'disgraceful and tainted with
fraud" and after voting down by a close
vote motion to seat the regularly re-
, ported delegates Robert J. Flick and Jes-
sci Martin. decided to seat none of the
parties.
This action reduced the total number
Of votes in the convention from 9s4 to
9"2 and furnished the first case in which
district will be left without represen-
taton.
The net results of the days work were
to bring the number of contests disposed
, or up to 32 out of the 137 filed
Tho Georgia and Florida cases con,
tinued to hang fire in subcommittee ant
there was disposition evidenced in tn,
inll committee meeting to-day to check
the practice Of referring disputes rather
= than having the national committee de-
eide them first hand. There was som,
I discussion on the subject but further
= references to subcommittee were mad,
S later in the day and when the session
. adjourned unit! nine o'clock Tomorrow
t morning the list of cases in sub-comnlitte.
= had been supplemented by the referenc,
r OF the eight congressional districts o
= Mississippi where the regularity of tn,
= district convention call is to be deter
t mined
: Many OF the committeeman expressed
, their satisfaction with the decisions o
to-day, although there were proposals t,
straddle some contests and split the votes
: OF delegations betweeen the contestee
: and contestants. Committeeman Howell
a Of Nebraska, led the sentiment which
X argued that the committee would checl
= the quadrennial flow Of contests IL i
n were to make definite decisions and sen,
|, word back into the districts that no CON
hn fpI Tha
G mtteemen who favored this course argue,
4 successfully that by splitting delegations Z
n settle contests, contests were being in
= vted.
i Chairman Hays had a brief concsrenc'
i to-day with Lieutenant-ColonelT Theodor
= Roosevelt. who visited the COMMITTEES
l. room and gave out a statement reiteratin,
mis- support of General Woods candidacy
n Colonel William Boyce Thompson o'
e New York chairman of the ways anc
means committee of the national com
= mittee also conferred with Chairman
]. Hays briefly and also gave out state
II ment.
ARRANGEMENTS for the distribution OF th'
n convention seats were completed to-day
d None Of the tickets xi'l be placed in tn
y. hands of the national committeeman un
= til Saturday
:. Each committeeman will receive the al
n lotment for his State and distribute then
: to State delegations.
II Precautions have been taken 10 pre-
h vent the tickets falling into Spectator
y hands and to prevent counterfeitinS.
- 4 single organization of men and won
en- instead of dual control under scpa
rate leadership will be the plan presented
:, to the Republican national convention b!
the national committee for assimilation
- Of the new voters, it was announced to
~ day.
N Chairman VIII II. Hays named fiv
:. national committeeman TO draft tn
committee plan for the part womel
10 voters are to play in party manage
~ ment, Sunday the women delegate
: and alternates approx imately Is
strong, will caucus and discuss thei
=, proposals.
* The demand for the more militan
d women leaders is for suffrage planl
n in the platform calling on States whicl
c have not acted on the constitutions
e amendment to hurry and do so.
= The subcommittee appointed to
II day will hold its first session early il
y the morning in an effort to complete
it's recommendations in time for thei
submission to the women's caucu
t Sunday. The committee includes Gen
q eral T. Coleman Dupont. Delaware
i Rudolph x. Hypicka. Ohio; John 7
y | Adams. Iowa; r. =. Howell, Nsbrask;
and Ralph Il. williams. Oregon.