The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-06-12
GREEN MCCARTHY DELE
CATION THROWN OUT

names 10 make up Inelr llsI OF dele
gates to the State convention, some
of them being recorded from Sec
tons of the State they had never
set foot in much less live there"
lie charged the State committee OF
thirty-one being men who would do
anything in re-electing delegates in
order to control. Mcdonald added
that at the State convention he was
INVITED to go out and hire himself a
nall for his convention, but that he
replied that the majority never bolts,
version of the convention and its OPP
GRAFTON, saying, that the minority
report presented by him had been
adopted by more than 500 delegates
How do you know that many
voted for it?" Asked Herbert Par
sons of New York, assistant coun-
sci for the committee.
II know 1t by the number that
came out of the hall afterward,"
replied Mcdonald.
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incompletion. 49,. .acw
This man Mcdonald is chronic
troublemaker," Creager told the
committee.
Green himself and Harry Beck
were thrown out on a contest. They
did the same thing in 1900 they are
doing today, but now they have
added Wright to their organization.
Green was not unseated, and
you know It," shouted Mcdonald
from the table across the way.
well, sit down, you" replied
Creagor. This brought Howell of
Nebraska to his feet protesting that
Creagor should not tell a man to
sit down when arising to interrupt.
The protest caused the spectators
to applaud.
Creagor Tells of Bolt.
Creagor explained the reasons
for members of the convention re-
presenting counties in which they
did not reside and told the story of
McDonald's holt, which he said had
been prepared for by placing 200
seats on the lawn, that the boilers
left the hall hurrahing for Lincoln,
Teddy and Bill Mcdonald. After
this occurred the majority report
was adopted and in accomplishing
this Creager said the delegates
from sixteen counties who were not
contested had not been allowed the
vote
Creager tried to explain that there
were Negroes of the MacGregor
delegation now in Chicago, when
the temporary chairman declared
him out of order and the COM
mittee went into executive session
to pass upon the contest as it affect
ed the delegates at large. Howell
of Nebraska made a fight to have
the Green-McCarthy faction seated,
but he received no support, and
the seating of MacGregor's delegates
were unanimous with that exception.
Seventh District Contest.
The committee heard the contest
from the Seventh District presented
by A. G. Perkins, a Negro lawyer
of Galveston, who took occasion to
amplify the complaint set out in
the brief that MacGregor was the
originator of the "lilywhite" move
ment,, applied to Republican poll
tics, and he added that MacGregor
was doing everything he could to
destroy the party in Texas. The
contest turned upon the question as
to who had authority to act as
chairman of the district
In explaining the MacGregor side
of the contest, Creagor said three
of the four delegates and alternates
of the MacGregor faction from the
Seventh District were Negroes, and |
he said he wanted it to go to the |
country that they did not advocate |
the elimination Of the Negro from
the Republican party in Texas, but |
was urging white leadership in or
der to build up a Republican party |
in the South. When Perkins de-
manded that Creagor name the Ne
groes on the delegation he did.
The committee heard again the |
explanation of the Texas procedure,
Creagor adding that the action of
the district conventions in naming |
delegates to the national convention |
was only suggestive to the State |
convention, but that the State con-
vention adopted the recommended |
tions. This was the case in all save |
the Tenth District, where a mass |
convention was held, and their Sc
lections had been accepted by the |
regulars at San Antonio.
The committee went into execu-
tive session to pass upon the dis
trict contests without going into
the others, as Mcdonald was clam
.oring for a chance to be heard. With
the room cleared of spectators,
Mcdonald told the committee that |
he did not agree that the San An |
tonic convention claimed by the
MacGreagor forces was a legal con-
vention, but since the committee |
had taken the contrary view, Nc |
Donald said that he did not believe
any of his people were entitled to
be seated.
"You did not give us the law |
as it stands" said the Negro, land |
If you as managers of the Repub-
lican party want to ignore the will
of $4,000 Republican voters in Tex
as, then it's all right with me-"
Mcdonald slowly walked out of
the room, and once outside. made
the statement that he was through
with the Republican party If the
credentials committee declined to
right the wrong.
In a statement issued following |
the decision, Creagor charges the
use of outside money in Texas dur
ing the preconvention days.
The announcement in press dis
patches that e. H. r. Geen had
been called before the Kenyon COM
mittee at Washington to relate
evidence regarding that the alleged
expenditures in Texas to elect dele
gates caused small furry, but
no excitement among the Texans
and others from the Southwest
Mcdonald, who has been associ-
ated with Green politically for
years, knew nothing of the pro-
posed hearing until informed by