The Washington herald., 1920-06-02
NEGRO QUESTION
IS NOW BEFORE
G. O. P. LEADERS
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counsel, He showed he had slight
familiarity with the facts at issue.
All OF the speculation about the
Coliseum tended toward the seating
OF the Lowden claimants. Seven
teen votes may not appear vital
except when a candidate is hoping
TO sweep the convention on the
early balloting.
New Light on Matter.
Tonight developments put a diff
ferent light on matters. Henry s.
Jackson. national committeeman
from Georgia, stepped in. He is
regarded as strong for Lowden. but
ne Is not for the seating Of the
Lowden contestants from the
cracker State. Jackson will take
the floor before the national COM
mittee tomorrow to inform the COM
mltteemen that upon their decision
In the Georgia contest rests the
question OF negro or white Repub-
llcan leadership in the South, He
Is known to hold the view that IL
the Henry Lincoln Johnson dele
gates are seated the Republican
party must face another generation
OF hard nghting to break the Solid
south. johnson will be the ma
tional committeeman II his contest
is successful. The people Of the
south would be driven still farther
from support of Republican policies
because the whites will not for an
instant tolerate the thought of ne
gro ofhceholders in important Fed
eral positions, such as, for example.
collector OF internal revenue in
these days Of income tax returns.
jackson believes the national
committee. regardless of leaning to-
ward this candidate or that, will
not elect to turn the party leader
snip over to the negroes. jackson
would prefer to have the Wood
delegation seated TO seeing Henry
Lincoln johnson take a place on the
national committee.
Hitchcock holds the same view.
To him the contest has developed
almost exclusively into an issue Of
whether the whites or the negroes
shall dominate the Georgia leader
ship. To him the contest means
much. Without the Georgia and
perhaps the Florida and Louisiana
delegations. his reputation as a
great factor in national conventions
would be hurt so seriously as vir-
tually to eliminate him from the
party councils. Should Jackson
make strong speech before the
committee tomorrow as tonight's in
dications are that he will-hitch-
cock may win the contest. even
though the Lowden people are cock
sure they will emerge victorious.
Contest a Dominant Issue.
All of this may be Greek to the
layman, but in national Republican
politics it is paramount. The Geor-
gia contest was regarded every
where here tonight as the dominant
issue. 1t took precedence even over
the persistent propaganda of the
Lowden forces. They are the most
self-satisfed lot in Chicago. Some
OF them go so far as to say Low
den is a cinch for the nomination.
One OF their leaders has gone to
the extreme of engaging sleeping
car reservations out of Chicago on
Thursday night. June 10. He be-
ieves IT Is all over but the shout
ing. HeSis the governor Of an i'm
portant State, politically. and q
delesate-at-larse pledged to an
other candidate.
Representatives of the Lowden
organization can sit down and in
five minutes convince the average
person that the nomination fight
is a lark for the Illinois governor
They nave an imposing array of
hgures and a convincing way of
talking.
The obvious fact u that the ad-