Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-06-06
National Committee Has
Adopted Resol ution
Looking to Reorganiza-
ton in the South.
Board of Three Will Be
Named by Chairman to
Study Situation There
and Make a Report.

Chicago, June 5.-Delegate
contests which have furnished
spectacular features of the pre-
convention period were finished
tonight by the Republican ma
tional committee with decided
advantage to Governor Lowden.
Although on actual instructions of the
1877 contested delegates, General Wood
received twelve and Governor Lowden
seven with 116 uninstructed. the report
ing delegates favor the Illinois governor.
The committee, in the two Missouri
contests refused to seat any contest
ants.
All of the II district delegates from
Virginia aligned with the Slemp faction
were seated. The committee rejected
earnest pleas of negro contestants for
seats and also decided separate anti
organization contests in the third and
eighth districts in favor of the .Slemp
factions.
Division of Delegates.
According to the reports of the can
djdates favored by the delegates seated,
the 135 delegates involved were dis
tributed as follows:
Wood. IS; Lowden. 65; johnson, 4 :;
Judge Pritchard, of North Carolina. II;
Tninstructed and scattering. 81; with
the two Missouri contests rejected en-
tirely.
All of the contests are expected to be
appealed to the convention credentials
committee and subjected to revision by
the convention itself.
The committees decisions left the
actual instructed lineup on the cOnven-
ton temporary roll, without regard TO
uninstructed delegates known leanings,
as follows:
Wood, 124; Johnson, 1i2: Lowden, -;
Harding, 80: Poindexter IA; Sproul, 76;
Sutherland, IS; and Judge Pritchard, of
North Carolina, %.
To Reorganize South.
A resolution for reorganization of
party affairs in the south followed
acrimonious battling between whites and
negroes during disposal of 43 contests
of which there were % from Texas. II
from Virginia and five from Georgia. In
nearly all the negroes charged. and the
white delegates denied. racial discrimin-
alton: The resolution follows:
Whereas, it is increasingly apparent
that the so called solid south is in fact
On economic issue strongly inclined to
the principle of the Republican party
and
Whereas. it is obvious from repeated
contests before the national committee
and other facts no less noteworthy that
Republican votes in many of these states
are not increasing in proportion to the
increasing belief in Republican prin-
ciples.
Committee of Three.
Resolved. that the chairman Of the
national committee appoint special
committee of three of its members. who
shall very carefully and impartially study
the whole situation in the south and al
so its relation to that in the north. with
view of reporting how the Republican
party in states of the south shall be re-
organized or constituted to make it
more effective agent for the spreading
and recording of Republican principles
and of election of Republican elector."
The race dispute was staged before
a number of women proxies and a large
audience composed mostly of negroes. |
Several women sat through clouds of
tobacco smoke. hours of heated contro-
versy and considerable strong language
from the negroes. In the discussion
there was talk of "strong arm aid by |
police to exclude negroes from white !
conventionha,is, tales Of flying battles |
and bruised faces and of alleged "inccn-
diary speeches by the negro organizers. |
Despite the arguments of the negro |
contestants, the committee seated all |
the so-called regular or organization del |
egates, from both Texas and Virginia.