Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-05-31
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FROM HEARINGS
IN COMM TTEE!
c.. O. P. Leaders Will
Today Take Up Claims
of Contesting Delega-
tions.
137 Seats to National
Convention Now Under
Contest; More Prob
able.

able.
Chicago, May 30.-When the
Republican national committee
tomorrow begins making deci-
sions over contesting delega-
tions to the convention it will,
according to announcement by
Chairman Will H. Hays, proceed
to make judicial decisions; not
political ones"
Contests this year are not
surrounded with the importance
, they took on in the memorable
Taft-Roosevelt fight in 1912.
Although Major General Leon
ard Wood and Governor Frank
o. Lowden are most affected by
the decisions, neither of these
candidates would gain enough
delegates to assure a nomina-
tion if all the contests were to
be decided in his favor.
The official roll shows 1877
seats in contest out of the 984
which compose the convention.
Later filings probably will bring
! the total to 149. The national,
committee hopes to dispose of
them in about four days.
1t is not improbable that the bulk of
the contests may be disposed of by pre-
cedent setting decisions. on which the
committee will decide questions of rule,
which in turn will decide other cases
The sessions Of the committee prob
ably will be open. Contestants viii be
represented by attorneys; the public
presumably viii be represented by the
newspaper correspondents, and the com
mittee itself will be represented by an
attorney.
The contesting delegates also will be
present and the hearings win be held
in the large room set apart for the p0r-
pose in the Coliseum, where the conven
ton will be held next week.
For this convention, as in others. the
majority of the contests come from
the south involving the claims of white
and black delegates. The contest from
Georgia. bringing up direct fight be-
tween Wood and Lowden forces, pro-
teen of the II seats are in dispute. The
first Georgia convention elected "black
and tan delegation headed by Henry
Lincoln Johnson. a negro. Tt was offic-
tally listed as unpledged.
Governor Lowden's campaign man
ager testified at Washington before d
senate committee that $1,000 of the
/ ,rv,A Nd ~,nS ~
Johnson. Later. Is delegates headed
by Rosco Pickett were elected and were
instructed for General Wood Frank Fl.
Hitchcock, one of the generals man
ayers. testified TO the senate commit
tee that $4,000 was sent to Pickett.
The Georgia contest is expected to be the
most spectacular one of the crop.
Since q contest was filed from Texas
there has been bolt of negroes from
the San Antonio convention and now
two full sets of delegates are asking to
be seated. Both are reported favorable
to the candidacy of General Wood. In
brief. the number and distribution of
contests is as fellows:
Alabama /: Arkansas I: FLORIDA IS;
Georgia IS: Louisiana Il: Minnesota 2,
Mississippi u: Missouri 4: North Caro-
Tennessee 2; Texas %: Virginia 10; and
the District of Columbia ..
Less than 80 instructed votes are in
golved in the contests. Thirty-five
Wood delegates and nine Lowdeu dele
yates are involved. The other contest
ants are uninstructed.
Chairman Hays arrived today, coming
IN train which also brought William
Cooper Proctor. of Cincinnati. described
zee as the Angel of the Wood candi-
lacy. Colonel 7. Coleman dupont of
Delaware was also passenger and the
hree had a long talk 1t was said they
net accidentally and that their talk was
rot in the nature of conference.
After a luncheon with newspaper cor
Chairman Hays made a
lying visit to presidential row" and
hen motored out to the coliseum to in
pect the work on the convention ar
John r. King. of Connecticut, who
damaged General Woods campaign up
0 January 1, when he was displaced in
avor of Colonel William Cooper Proc
er, arrived tonight bearing the proxy
f Senator Boise Penrese Of Pennsyt-
ania.
simultaneously friends of Senator
'enrose, who are in a position to know.
tated that the Pennsylvania solon viii
ot come to Chicago for the convention.
espite the fact that bis physicians had
that his physical condition
,ould not prevent the trip.
Presidential row" was agoG with
pcculation tonight as 70 who will re-
rive Pennsylvania's 20 votes if Mr..
ing is in charge in Senator Penreseas
ehalf
Other arrivals tonight Included the fol-
wing:
National eommitteemen: John w.
art. Idaho; John r. Adams. Iowa; NJ.
Mulyihill, Mississippi, -and Thsmss,A,