Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-01
CONTEST HEARINGS
ATCH|CAGO THROWN
OPEN To THE PUBLIC
Georgia Faction Occupy
LimeIight as Republican
Committee Meets = Ala
banna Contest Abandoned

CHICAGO, May S1.-By unanimous
vote the Republican national commit
tees first action today was to throw
open the hearings on contested dele
cations. 1t was decided to take up
contests in the alphabetical order of
states.
| The committee was ready to go
ahead hearing contests when it as
sembled, but some delegations and
their attorneys were delayed by late
! trains, and the committee men went
on with other business while wait
ing.
Many of the contesttng negro dele
cations from the southern states
We're on hand early, even before the
doors were opened. Chairman Hays
was an early arrival. Frank B.
Hitchcock also was on hand early,
and had a series of conferences with
committeeman and contestants. He
had nothing to say concerning a meet
ing of Wood managers called for to-
night, at which it is understood the
differences in the Wood forces are to
be taken up and Mr.. Hitchcock's fu-
ture connection with the generals
candidacy decided. The arrival of
John T. King, of Connecticut, bear
ing the proxy of Senator Penrose,
Of Pennsylvania, has added more
speculation to the general discussion
Of the Wood managers plans.
The first contest to come before
the Republican national committee,
that from the Fourth district Of Ala
bama, was abandoned when the COM
mittee called it.
The contestant, w. H. Nixon, of
Selma, Ala, made no appearance
The regularly certified delegate, J. B.
Atkinson, Of Clanton, was seated.
Nixon was reported to favor the
Wood candidacy.
Oliver D. Street, Alabama commit
tee member, told the committee that
the Nixon contest was made out Of
whole CLOTH" and in the failure of
contestant to press the case the COM.
mittee adopted unanimously a mo-
ton dismissing the contest.
The hearing of contests was
reached sooner than expected Pre-
liminary business was quickly dis
posed Of and the committee adopted
rule that a national committee
mans proxy must be held within his
own state. f
In the Arkansas contest the COM
mittee decided unanimously to seat
the regularly reported delegates at
large, headed by H. L. Remmel, of
Little Rock. The unsuccessful con-
testants were headed by E. c.. Nor
ris, negro of Helena.
The question Of what to do with
the surplus delegates was post
poned. Consideration of the contests
in the three Arkansas districts was
set to come UP later today.
Ge orgia Contest
AS usual in past conventions vir-
tudlly all the contests originate be-
tween Lily White" and Black and
Tan" groups in southern states. In
the alphabetical order in which they
will be heard the other contests are:
Arkansas: Seven of the states
thirteen seats are in dispute between
white and "black and tan" groups.
Florida: Three complete sets of
delegates, Lilly White" black and
TAM and regular" are fighting for
the states eight seats.
Georgia: Fifteen of seventeen
seats are in dispute in what prom
ises to be the most bitterly fought
of all the contests, with direct is.
q ND
forces. The black and tan" con-
vention elected a complete delega-
ton headed by Henry Lincoln John
son, of Atlanta. They were listed
officially as unpledged, but Cover
money Johnson. The Wood up,
headed by Roscoe Pickett, later
elected fifteen delegates. Frank
Hitchcock, one of the Wood man.
ayers, told the senate committee he
sent $4,000 to Pickett when it was
reported 1.-The opposition was spend
ing considerable money"
Louisiana: All twelve seats are
contested by whites and BLACK and
tans."
Minnesota: Two of the states
twenty-four seats are at stake.
mississippi: All twelve seats are
contested, with one delegation pledged
to General Wood. Frank Hitchcock
told the senate committee that in
his opinion the Wood delegation was
Illegal"
Missouri: Two seats contested
North Carolina: Seventeen out of
twenty-five seats contested, with the
whites pledged to Judge Pritchard.
oklahoma: Six seats in dispute,
with some of the contestants favor
ing Lowden and others Wood.
South Carolina: All eleven seats
contested by the regulars and the
,'union publican party" a negro
faction.
Tennessee: Two seats in the Sixth
and Tenth districts at. stake, with
Wood partisans involved in both.
Texas: All twenty-three seats con-
tested along racial lines.
Virginia: All fifteen seats contest
ed by Lilly Whites" and ''black and
tans," with extra contests filed from
the Third and Eighth districts.
District of Columbia: Three sets
Of delegates, one said to favor Gen
eral Wood and the other two I'M
pledged, contesting for the districts
two seats.
''Pussyfoot'' Johnson
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