The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-05
CONVENTION REGULAR

Before the committee adjourned to continue in night session, Johnson's big four-the delegates at large-had been seated. on the ground of organ ization regularity in their convention proceedings. and the First and Second Georgia congressional districts also had been voted the same way. The evidence in the six districts remaining in contest was said to be much of the same nature.
 South Carolina and Georgia contests brought the race issue and the color line into the deliberations of the com mittee. despite all efforts to keep them out. The contest over the Tolbert delegates from South Carolina brought up the much discussed question of whether the republican party in the southern states would do better with out association with the negro. The contesting delegates in the South Caro- lima case stirred up a row in which the lie was frequently passed, charges of machine rule" to perpetuate 'an of ficeholders' trust and further charges that conditions were such that the re- publican vote had been reduced by the alleged methods to minimum were made.
 FIREWORKS AND VAUDEVILLE
 The hearing furnished fireworks and vaudeville, Gales of laughter. roars of cheers waves of applause swept the committee room National Committee man Tolbert became enthusiastic in his description of his republcanism that he actually did a dozen steps of a fig and pranced mp and down the aisle. Ne- gro witnesses supporting the claims of the contesting delegation, testifying to their inability to take part in the Tol- bert faction conventions. declared they had been threatened with death if they attempted to attend them. Socks of af- fidavits presented In support of the claims of the regularity of the Tobert cooked" up since the convention and there were broad intimations of how the signatures might have been obtained
 The committee decided. however that so far as the evidence before 1t went, Tolbert had the evidence of regularity in the South Carolina convention pro ceedings and seated Tolberts delegates
 Renewed pleas for a special decision came with the calling of the Georgia case National Committeeman Jackson of Georgia who is retiring from the com mittee and withdrawing from the state made a special plea that the national committee establish harmony among the factions there and preclude contests at the next national convention by seating all the delegates and giving each half vote The committee, however, bowled the suggestion over with a quick vote and stood tight on the principle.
 Johnson and his small army of negro cohorts were waiting in the anterooms for the decision and when the news vs the decision favorable to him reached there scenes which are familiar to any one who has attended an old fashioned southern camp meeting were re-enacted. The shouts and screams of the Johnson party resounded throughout the Coli. scum Admiring negroes dances about their leader in wild delirium and ra iad such a din that the committee in the next room had difficulty in pro- ceeding to the consideration of the dis trict contests.
 CONTINUE SEATING NEGROES
 At it's night session the committee continued seating the Henry Lincoln Johnson district delegates from Geor- gia. Thes s4ssfn the Third and oFurth
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