The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-02
D. Of G.. WOOD
MEN SEATED
Southern Contests Occupy
the Republican National
Committee

CHICAGO, June l.-.Nnothcr slow go
ing session with little progress in actu-
al results marked tho work of the Re
publican national committee today in
its course of deciding the claims OF con-
testing delegations.
The seating of two regularly reported
delegates from the District of Columbia
said tn be favorable to Major General
Leonard Wood and an extended hearing
OF the Georgia contest involving dele
gates pledged. to Wood and another
group counted as favorable To Lowden.
was the principal business of the day.
Nt the same time the committee de-
Clincd to reopen its action OF year
ago by which IT seated Emile kuntZ or
New Orleans as national committeemau
from Louisiana. The appeal Of Frank
{. Labit OF New Siberia. was denied.
The Florida Contest.
At the outset OF today : session the
committee expected To hear the report
Of a sub committee and close up the
three corncred tight from Florida which
was begun On Monday. but the question
Of law and fact turned out to be so VOL
luminous that the committee headed by
Charles b. Warren of Detroit. reported
that the only conclusion IT was prepared
In report today was that tho Florida
delegates headed by a. l.. Church OF
Jacksonville. had no Calm on which the
committee could act
As 10 the contest between the regu-
larly reported faction led by national
committeeman Bean and the other head
ed by II. l.. Anderson of Jacksonville.
the subcommittee recommended re-
hearing which probably will come to-
morrow.
The Georgia contest. looked upon as
tho first real contest of actual political
significance and having bearing on
the strength Of the Wood or Lowden
men Grew a large audience OF which n
Tho contest opened with a dash Of or
atory and was continued with consider
able fury, and at the end OF four hours
the committee found itself confronted
with such a mass of conflicting claims.
arguments. charges and counter
mittee headed by Mr.. Warren 10 exam
inc the documents and make a report on
the tangle.
Wood VI. 1owdsn. M
Henry Lincoln johnson. an AtIAnea
negro. heads the regularly reported
delegation. which Is said to be counted
in the Lowdcn column. The Contesting
delegation known as the Pickett faction.
is pledged to General Wood. The act
ion Of the committee means seventeen
seats for Wood or Lowden and n deci-
sion is expected tomorrow. The con-
test RACES about charges of bolt but
the national committee decided it would
have to study the evidence to decide
who holted Duplicate convention rolls
and credentials figured in the mass of
evidence.
Although the committee was prepared
to hold night scSsion. the next con
tcstants on the program we're not ready
and the plan was abandoned with the
understanding that at the outset OF to-
morrows meeting starting at o'clock
in the morning. the Florida and Georgia
cases will be taken up for decision and
the remaining contests will be hurried
along as fast as possible.
The committee today made fnal its
decision to seat all the excess delegates
on the convention floor in extra spaces
and to let the excess alternates to nnd
seats among the spectators.