Evening star., 1920-06-03
REPUBLICANS TAKE
STAND At CHICAGO
ON NEGRO QUESTION
National Committee Vote
Forbids Election of Dele
oates Where Line Drawn.

oates Where Line Drawn.
BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June BY unanimous
resolution today the republican ma
tional committee directed Chairman
Hays to notify all state organizations
that they must discontinue holding
local conventions for election of ma
tional delegates in places where 1T
is the custom and practice to refuse
admission to negroes"
Attempt to Avoid Issue.
The committee attempted to avoid
the race issue but failed. Aroused by
the number of contests from the
southern states in which it was shown
that district conventions were held
in hotels and other places where ne
groes are not admitted, Charles B.
Warren. committeeman from Michi-
gan. moved to have the committee
Issue warning to the south" that
contests on similar grounds must not
be permitted to come up at the next
national convention.
Southern committeeman. headed by
w. NJ. jackson of Georgia. protested
that the resolution as formed was a
slur on the south and contended that
specific mention of the southern states
should be eliminated and it's terms
broadened to refer to the entire coun-
try. Col Warren accepted an amend
ment to that effect and it was unani-
mous1y adopted by vive voce vote.
s In support of his resolution. Col.
Warren told the committee that it
might as well face the race issue in
that way for the good of the party.
Committeeman Hert of Kentucky
supported the motion and declared
that since Kentucky of it's own ac-
ton had admitted negro voters and
delegates freely, the republican cleo
torate had been greatly increased.
The southern committeeman made
no objection to the resolution as it
was amended to eliminate specific ref
erence to the southern states.
Text of Resolution.
Col. Warren's resolution follows:
I'm view of the fact that at this
session and at previous sessions of
the national committee and preceding
national conventions it has appeared
that in some states meetings of the
republicans have been called in
places where it was the custom and
practice to deny access to colored
people. the national committee give
notice through it's chairman to all
the organizations of republican party
that that practice must not be fol-
lowed in the future in any state con-
vention or in any district convention"
Today's Proceedings.
Shortly after the national committee
resumed today its consideration Of dele
gates, contests, it was announced that in
the sixth Tennessee distric. Harry A.
Luck of Nashville had withdrawn his
contest J. c. e. Mccall of Nashville,
uninsffucted, was seated. He was
claimed forIWood.
The first contest taken up today was
the suspended Florida case, the dispute
between the Wood faction headed by
National Committeeman Bean. and that
led by Fl. L. Anderson of Jacksonville,
reported to favor johnson.
Jacob L. Babler of st. Louis, the Mis-
souri, national committeeman, who told
the Senate investigating committee of
receiving Lowden funds. arrived today
and took his seat in the committee.
Lieut.. Col. Roosevelt watched today's
proceedings from the rostrum as an as
sistant to Secretary Miller.
w. NJ. Bounds. a delegate to the con-
vention from Collins, Miss. appeared to-
day adorned with placard announcing ]:
II am wearing out my old clothes"
Women attending the convention are
asked by Mrs. Raymond Robins to wear
plain small hats and to take them off
as soon as they are seated in the con-
of the chairman of the last progressive
party convention.
North CaFOlinn Contest.
The committee took up the North
Carolina contest, where a contesting
delegation was asking for the seats
to which the Morehead faction had
been certified.
The Morehead delegates were
seated. One contestant appeared to
lot n,t H1~1
committee then passed to the Okla
homa contest.
Action in Oklahoma Case.
The white delegates from second
Oklahoma district. L. G. Disney of
Muskogee and o. o. Grant of Still
water. were seated. The negro con-
testants argued unsuccessfully that
they had been barred from the Mus
kogee convention.
The republican platform. Chairman
Hays of the national committee de-
clared in a statement today. will be
sacred contractual obligation between
the party and the people.
Full opportunity for hearings be-
fore the resolutions committee. Mr..
Hays said. will be accorded in all
pertinent subjects.
Busy Days Before Meeting.
Five days remain before the repub
lican party assemblies in the Coliseum
to pick it's candidate and those five
days are expected to contain crowded
hours of conferences. last-minute
alignments of forces and final deci-
sions among the campaign managers.
Every one of the candidates except
Herbert Hoover is expected here at
some time.
The advance guards of the dele
gates are beginning to arrive and by
Sunday they will be coming in
steady stream, The majority of them.
to be sure, are technically unpledged.
but most of them have their ieanlngs
and very few of them are claimed by
less than three campaign managers: :.
Delesations' Statements.
Some of the chairmen Of the incom-
ing DELEGATIONS are announcing their
preferences in prepared statements
which. became the confidence Of sue
cess. but the political managers stand
ing on the sfdelines and making up
their states have found no. reason TOT
changing their opinion that while
Some ~ the candidates have enough
deIepates to give them formidable
fiehtir1g strer 9Th in-the convention, 1t
is going to take more than two or
three ballots to Show where the forces
>of Cancellation and compromise must
be applied to bring forth candidate
-uhowilI command a majority.
II the realm of speculation were to
no entered 1t would be necessary to
mention practically every candidate
who has announced himself thus far.
because every one of those candidates
has a manager who advances set of
reasons why his principal IL the logi-
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