The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-06-09
TOtBERT'S DELEGATION
IS RECOGNIZED
Georgia Negro Wins Fight Before
Committee and Regulars"
Are Seated
TWENTY-FIVE FOR LOWDEN
South Carolina Dispute Keeps Meet.
ing in Continuous Uproar
for Hours

Chicago, June 4-(Ry the Associat-
ed Press) s).-Lowden forces counted
twenty-five delegates in their column
as the result of today's decisions of
contests by the Republican national
committee. The Wood forces in turn
lost an equal number, which would
have been counted for them had the
pending contests been sustained.
All attempts at split decisions were
lost. While various committeeman
professed to see behind the arguments
for party harmony which were advo-
Gated a reflection of personal views
as they might be favorable to Gov
ernor Lowden and Gen. Wood, the com
,nittee in repeated roll-calls refused to
make compromises, and proceeded to
make decisions on the evidence of
party regularity in the local and dis
trict machinery.
Lowden forces started off on win
ming streak by winning the contested
in the eight congressional districts of
Mississippi. They claim all these dele
gates. They won half vote in the
Second Congressional District Of Okla
homa, where the Wood forces won
half vote also by the seating of DR..
Hugh Scott, of Holdenville, and Albert
Kolly, of Bristol, respectively. Then
the Lowden chiefs claimed another
addition of support when the commit
tee voted to seat the regularly re-
ported delegates from South Carolina,
led by National Committeeman Toll
bert. The Tenth district of Tennes-
see went to the regularly reported /
delegate, negro OF Memphis, but !!
that was claimed by none of the va
rious managers. !
The spectacular decision Of the day
was the hard fought and long delayed .
contest from Georgia where the dele !
gates headed by Henry Lincoln john !
son, an Atlanta negro, who, is was tes- !
titled before the Senate committee in
vestigating campaign expenditures,
received $4,000 for the Lowden cam :
paign fund. were resisting the attacks |
of set of contesting delegates, ad- !
''HcISuiy VI EhiiiLSd ny fldbh II.
cock and counted for the candidacy
of Gen. Wood.
Before the committee adjourned to :
continue in a night session Johnson's |
big four-the delegates at large-had !
been seated, on the ground Of organ
ization regularity in their convention ,
proceedings, and the First and Sec
ond Georgia congressional districts
also had been voted the same way.
The evidence in the six districts re-
much of the same nature.
South Carolina and Georgia contests
brought the race issue and the color
line in the deliberations of the com
mittee despite all efforts to keep them
out. The contest over the Tolbert
delegates from South Carolina brought
up the much discussion question of
whether the Republican party in the
Southern States would do better with
ont association with the negro. The
contesting delegates in the South Car
olina case stirred up a row, in which
the lie was frequently passed charges
of "machine rule" to perpetuate can
office-holders trust" and further
charges that conditions were such that
the Republican vote had been reduced
by the alleged methods to q minimum
were made.
The hearing furnished fireworks
and vaudeville. Gales of laughter,
roars of cheers, waves Of applause
swept the committee room. National
Committeeman Tolbert became so en-
thuisastic in his description of his Re