The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-06-05
WOOD MANAGER
CLAIMS "STEAN
ROLLER TACTICS
Candidate, However, Expresses
Confidence in Committee
GAIN OF rs FOR LOWDEN
Decisions in All Contests Reached
Yesterday In Favor of Illinois
Man.

Chicago June 5.-A disagreement
! between Gen. Woods managers over
the question whether the republican
national committee has been steam
rolling" his delegates has furnished the
incident needed to wind up the conven-
tion preliminaries with three-ring
finish.
Although Senator Moses of New
Hampshire, one of Woods S managers,
| has denounced the decisions Of the
committee that seated Lowden dele
gates over the Wood contestants as
steam roller proceedings, the Gen
eral himself has given out state
ment expressing confidence in the
fairness of Chairman Hays and dis
claiming any belief that the committee
| is promoting personal preferences as
to candidates in order to enter decis-
ions that will determine the character
of the delegations.
Lowden forces counted 25 delegates
into their column as the result of to-
days decisions of contests by the Re-
publican national committee. The
Wood forces. in turn lost an equal
number which should have been count
ed for them had the pending contests
been sustained
All attempts at split decisions were
Host. While various committeeman pro-
fessed to see behind the arguments for
lparty harmony which was advocated,
reflection of personal views as they
might be favorable to Governor Low
den and General Wood, the committee
on repeated rollcalls refused to make
compromises, and proceeded to make
decisions on the evidence of party reg
ularity in the local and district ma
lchinery.
Lowden forces started off on win
ming streak.by winning the contests in
1.-THE eight congressional districts OF
mississippi They claim all these dele
gates. They won a half vote in the
second congressional district of Okla
homa, where the Wood forces won a
half vote also by the seating of DR..
Hugh Scott OF Holdenviae and Albert
Kelly of Bristow, respectively. Then
1.-THE Lowden chiefs claimed another ad,
ldition of support when the committee
voted to seat the regularly reported
delegates from South Carolina, led by
National committeeman Tolbert. The
tenth district of Tennessee went to the
regularly reported delegate, Robert
Church, a negro of Memphis, but that
was claimed by none of the various
managers
The spectacular decision of the
day was the hard fought and long
delayed contest from Georgia, where
the delegates headed by Henry Lin
coin Johnson, an Atlanta negro, who
| it was testified before the Senate
committee investigating campaign
resources had $4,000 for the Lowden
campaign fund, were resisting the at
tacks of set of contesting delegates
admittedly organized by Frank II.
Hitchcock and counted for the candi'
dacy of General Wood
Before the committee adjourned to
continue in a night session Johnsons
big four--the delegates at large
had been seated on the ground OF
organization regularity in their con-
vention proceedings, and the First and
Second Georgia Congressional dis
tricts also had been voted the same
way. The evidence in the six dis
tricts remaining in contest was said
| to, be much of the same nature