Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-06-12

'pe afternoon. Consideration Of the
district representation came in the
night session.
SEAT VIRGINIA LILY.WHITE
In the Virginia contest, q straight
cut fight between whites and Ne
groes, Henry w. Anderson, Of Vir-
ginia candidate for the vice prcsi-
DENTAL nomination declared frankly
for white party domination in the
South. lie said the Negroes should
he welcomed to conventions and to
lLe party's fold, but asserted that to
H-akc progress the party in the South
should he held under white coLrol.
ITS crime, Was the rcpiy Of J.
II. Pollard uf isi2hilond leader of
The Negro delegation, "to make it a
white mans party"
Pollard charged that the white Re-
publicans of the South had for years
"tcccivcd" the Republican leaders
and were holding heir organization for
patronage only.
The committee decided in both
Texas and Virginia cases that the
evidence prcsnetcd was not sufficient
to entitlc tho Negroes to convention
seats. H.,
LINEUP OF INSTRUCTED
;, DELEGATES.
The committees decisions left the
actual instructed lineup on the con
vcntion temporary roly without re
gard to uninstructed delegates.
known lcanings are as follows:
Wood, 1924; johnson 112; Lowdcn
7G; Harding 30; Poindextcr IA;
Spronl 76; Sutherland 16; and Judge
lritchard OF North Carolina %.
The Wood forces won two more
votes when Roscoe Pickett and w.
\. Gillian from the Ninth Georgia
District were seated and the delcgat
eS indor;;cd by Henry Lincoln John
son were rejected. This left the Geor
gin delegation with four delegates
faNormg Wood and thirteen umplcdg
ed but regarded rs supporting Low
Men. The McGregor delegates from
the Nineteenth Texas District were
seated by the committee, giving the
regular organization the entire unin-
st"ucted delegation. Defeated dele
gates in this district were led by Col
oncl T.. II. r. Green son of the late
Hctty Green.
LOSS AND GAIN OF CANDIDATES.
From the hest information obtain
'ble upOn the candidates represent
ed in the various contcsters and
contcstces for seats, it has been fig
urcd that the net results in "yotes
in the convention" have been !,
loss Of thirty--nine for Wood, a gain
OF fifty four for Lowden, a gain Of
seven for Johnson and gain OF six
for Harding.
Forgery charges figured in the
Seventh District of Georgia contest
whore a Wood man d. G. Cole won
seat at the expense Of Captain p.
J. Dyer the delegate on the Lowden
contingent, brought here by Henry
Lincoln Johnson the $4,000 Georgian
peach. Coles supporters charged one
OF the Affirmative presented in Dyer's
behalf with being deliberately forg
Cd.
The bitter controversy between,
Whi.os and Negro contestants today
for seats in the national cGnVcntiC
was followed by the adoption by tho
Republican National Committee Of q
resolution authorizing subcommit
tee to investigate conditions in Tho
Southern States with . view OF re
organizing the Republican party in
to more effective organization. The
race dispute was staged before q
number Of women proxies and a large
audience composed mostly Of Ne,
groes.
HH0SOLVE TO MAKE SOUTH
REPUBLICANS.
The resolution by National Com
mittceman Jackson of Maryland had
the support Of Southern committee
men. 1t says:
Whereas it is increasingly ar
parent that the socalled solid South
is In fact an economic issue strong
1yly inclined to the principles Of the
Republican party: and
Whereas, Is obvious from repea,
cd contests before The National pea