Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-08
ROSCOE PICKETT
AND W. !. GILLIAN
ARE GIVEN SEATS

the 1877 contested delegates General
Wood received twelve and Governor
Lowden seven with 116 uninstructed,
the reported leaningS of the dis
puted delegates favor the Illinois
governor.
The committee in the two Mis-
souri, seats refused to seat any con-
teStants.
from Virginia aligned with the Slemp
faction were seated. The committee
rejected earnest pleas of negro con-
testants for seats and also decided
separate anti-organization contests II
the Third and Eighth districts in IA
vor of the Slemp faction.
According to the reports of the
seated, the 1876 delegates involved
were distributed as follows: Wood
IS; Lowden. S.; Johnson, 4; Judge
Pritchard, of North Carolina, II; un-
instructed and scattering 81, with
the two Missouri contests rejected
entirely.
Losers May Appeal
All of the contests are expected to
be appealed to the convention Gre
revision by the convention itself.
The final days proceedings in dis
posing of the contests which have
kept the committee on the job for a
solid week, were marked by an at
tack on Senator Moses, Of New
Hampshire, for his charges that
steam roller tactics had been EN-
by adoption of a resolution looking
to reorganization of the Republican
party in the solid south"
The committee in its decision left
the actual instructed lineup on the
convention temporary roll without
regard to uninstructed delegates.
Known leanings follow:
Wood, 1874; Johnson. 112; Lowden,
Sproui. rs; Sutherland, Is, and Judge
Pritchard. of North Carolina, %.
The resolution for reorganization
Of party affairs in the south fol-
lowed acrimonious battling between
posal of forty-three contests of which
there were twenty-three from Texas.
fifteen from Virginia and five from
Georgia. In nearly all the negroes
charged and the white delegates de-
MED racial discrimination.
The race dispute was staged before
a number of women proxies and a
large audience composed mostly Of
negroes.
"Regulars" Seated
Several women sat through clouds
of tobacco smoke, hours of heated
and considerable strong
language from the negroes.
Despite the arguments of the ne
gro contestants the, committee seat
ed all the so-called regular, or or
Texas and Virginia. In the Virginia
contest, a straight out fight be-
tween whites and negroes, Henry W..
of Virginia, candidate for
the. vice presidential, declared frank
ly for white party domination in the
south should be held under white
be welcomed to conventions and to
the party's fold, but asserted that to
make progress the party in the
south should be hel dunder white
control.
J. r. Pollard. Of Richmond, leader
of the negro delegation, to make it 3
white mans party. Pollard
charged that the white Republicans
ceived'' the Republican leaders and
were holding. their organization for
patronage only. The committee de-
cided in both Texas and Virginia
cases that the evidence presented
was not sufficient to entitle the ne
cision in the Virginia case left the
delegation standing, according to
actual instructions: Wood, one; Low
den, six, and uninsteucted, eight.
At least two more Wood votes were
claimed by the generals support
ers from the uninstructed group. The
dismissed separate con-
tests of anti-organization delegates
from the third and fourth districts.
The committee adjourned until
next Monday noon, when various
convention arrangements including
plans for participation of women
in party affairs are to be consid-
cred.
Pickett and Gillian Seated
The probability that Wood leaders
will carry several delegate contests
to the credentials committee was an
bounced by Mayor General Leonard
Wood.
''I do not know what contests will
be appealed to the credentials COM
said General Wood But
there probably will be number CT
them. We are simply pursuing Our
right in this respect"
Asked whether he considered his
statement last night on the action
of the national committee at yester-
days session as a reputation of the
statement of Senator Moses, General
Wood said:
II am not repudiating anything.
Senator Moses issued his statement
separate statements. Senator Moses
issued his statement for himself and
I issued mine for myself, but have
not repudiated in connection with
either statement" .s
Speaking of southern states. Cen
Il think some method of proce-
dure should be definitely prescribed
as to the situation in the southern
states. I believe by exercising a lit
tie care in advance these constant
and contests from the
hn fata 4 ~ II;
What we are after is strong repre-
Republican party. How
ever, I understand that the national
committee has this matter under
consideration"
General Wood said that there was
any coalition with the Johnson camp
in any way.
The Wood forces won two more
votes when the committee seated
Roscoe Pickett and w. Y. Gillian.
from the Ninth Georgia. district ana
dorsed by Henry Lincoln Johnson
The committees action left the
Georgia delegation with four dele
gates favoring Wood and Is I'M
pledged, but regarded as supporting
of Lowden.
National Committeeman Parsons,
of New York. pointed out that in the
disputed Georgia case all district
contests were settled unanimously.
How They Stand
Owing to the fact that most CT
the delegates affected were unin-
structed. an accurate count of the
gain and loss to the various candi-
1ates was impossible. but the best
information indicated the following
results:
Governor Frank O. Lowden gained
~; lost Z; net gain so.
Judge j. T. Pritchard, gained II;
lost 0; net gain II.
Senator Harding, gained 4; lost O.;
net gain 4.
Jacob L. Hamon, gained 6; lost
2; net gain 4.
Senator Hiram Johnson, gained 5;
lost 0; net gain 3.
Major General Wood, gained 40;
lost 66; net loss 26
These seeming results by states
would be:
Alabama ~ Lowden delegate seat
ed: loser, Wood.
Arkansas CD Lowden delegates
seated. InSer Wood