Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-05
25 ADDITIONAL
DELEGATES ARE
CHALkED UP IN
LOWDEN COLUMN
Contest Decisions by Ma
tionaI Committee Are Fa-
vOrabIe to Illinois Cover
nor, His Supporters Say.
JOHNSON ALSO PROFITS
FROM GEORGIA DISPUTE
Hearing Furnishes Fireworks
and VaduevIIej Commit
tee Dances a Jig to En-
Iiyen the Proceedings.

ieT MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEAsso wtRgl
Chicago, June 4 tby the Associ-
ated Press. )-Lowden forces count
ed twenty-five additional delegates
into their columns 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
We're lost. While various commit
teemen professed to see behind the
| arguments for party harmony
which We're advanced a reflection
of personal views as they might be
favorable to Governor Lowden,
and General Wood, the committee
in repeated roll calls refused to
make compromises and proceeded
to make decisions on the evidence
OF party regularity In the local and
district machinery.
Lowden forces started off on A
winning streak by winning the
contest in the Eighth congressional
districts of Mississippi They claim
all these delegates They won half
vote in the Second congressional
district of oklahoma, where the
Wood forces won a half vote also
by seating Dr. Hugh Scott Of Hold
/ envil.e and Albert Kelly of Bris.
tow.
Another IlCwcn Victory.
Then the Lowden chiefs claimed
another addition when the commit
tee voted to seat the regularly re-
ported delegates from South Caro-
lima, led by National Committee
man Tolbert. The Tenth district of
Tennessee went TO the regularly re-
ported delegate, r. r. Church,
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 Lincoln Johnson, an Atlanta
negro, who, 1t was testified before
the senate committee investigating
campaign expendituro received
$4,000 from the I.owden campaign
fund, were resisting the attack of
cOntesting delegates admittedly or
ganized by Frank II. Hitchcock
and counted for the candidacy OF
General Wood.
Before the committee adjourned
to continue In night session,
Johnsons big four-the delegates
at large-had been seated on the
ground of organization regularity
in their convention proceedings and
the First and Second Georgia con-
gressiona districts had been seat
ed the same way. The evidence in
the six districts remaining in con-
test was said to be much of the
same nature.
Race Issue and Color Lin.
South Carolina and Georgia cor
tests brought the race issue and
the color line into the deliberatlors
of the committee, despite all ef-
forts to keep them out. The con-
test over the Tolbert delegates from
South Carolina brought up the
much discussed question as 10
whether the republican party In
the southern states would do bet
ter without association with the ne-
gro. The contestng delegates in
the South Carolina case stirred No
a row in which the lie was fire.
quently passed, charges of ma
chine rule" to perpetuate IAN Of
flee holders trust and further
charges that conditions were such
that the republican vote had been
reduced by the alleged methods TO
a minimum were made.
Laughter and Applause.
The hearing furnished fireworks
and vaudeville. Gales of laughter,
roars of cheers and waves of APP
plause swept the committee room.
National Committeeman Tolbert
became so enthusiastic in his de-
scription of his republicans that he
actually did a dozen steps of jig
and pranced up and down the aisle.
Negro witnesses supporting the
claims of the contesting delega-
ton. testifying to their inability to
take part in the Tolbert faction
declared they had
been threatened with. death II they
attempted to attend them. Stacks
of affidavits presented in support
of the claims of the regularity of
the Tolbert delegates, they de-
clared, had been cooked up since
the convention and there were
broad intimations of how the sig
natures might have been obtained.
Committee Adjourns.
The contesting delegates from
the Sixth Georgia district were
seated by unanimous vote. The
decided there was no
evidence q legal convention had
been held by the Henry Lincoln
Johnson regular" faction.
The committee adjourned leav-
ing contests in the Seventh, Ninth
and Tenth Georgia districts to be
decided tomorrow. In the contest
decided, the Johnson faction, list
ed as favorable to Governor Low
len, got the four delegates at large
and the delegates from five dIss
.ricts, :.