Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-06-04
C. 0. P. IN SOUTH
CALLED ON TO GIVE
NEGRO FAIR DEAL
Committee Orders Dele
gates Selected Regard
less of Race in 1924.
FLORIDA DECISION GIVES
WOOD APPRECiABLE GAIN
Gerow and Anderson Factions
Seated With Half-Vote Each
After Warm Debate.
PRITCHARD DELEGATION IN
johnson Calls for Settlement on
League Question, According to
Demands of Majority.
FLORIDA DECISION GIVES
WOOD APPRECiABLE GAIN
rRITCHARD DELEGATION IN
johnson Calls for Settlement on
League Question, According to
Demands OF Majority.
NY Associated prcrs

CHICAGO. June 3-Besidc set
ting the delegation contests from
Florida by splitting the decision. the
Republican National Committee to-
day took what many members con-
strued TO be one OF the most i'm
portant actions of years respecting
The party'S vote in Southern Statc5
Aroused by the number OF dele
gate contests In which evidence was
brought that district conventions
had been held In places where
negroes were excluded hy custom or
practice. the committee by unanim-
BUS resolution gave notice that con-
ventions for the selection OF dele
yates In 1924, mus, be held In places
where race was no barrier TO par
ticipation.
resolution TO that effect offered
w Charles B. Warren. national
committeeman from Michiga
aroused lively discussion and some
hot retorts from tho Southern com
mittce members. because in it's Ian
guaGe 1t originally referred to the
Southern States specifically. When
amended to refer 70 all States alike.
however. 1t found no opposition and
tho Southern Committeeman voted
for II.
Wood Gains In FIorIdn.
The decision In the Florida case
was Wood victory in the sense
that It keeps six votes for the ycr-
oral on the roll. when his candidacy
was threatened with the !os.s OF all
votes from tho State. Out of mess
OF legal technicaiities the committee
came to the conclusion that In a
strict legal sense neither the dele
gates at largc OF the so-called Cierow
faction. headed by Nationa! Commit
teeman Bean. which arc counted in
at large headed By H. l.. Anderson.
Of Jacksonville. which arc counted
for Senator johnson. ought to be
seated.
II was confronted. however. with
practically abo!ishing tho Republ!-
can party In Florida. II It declined
20 scat somebody. National Commit
teeman street. OF Aiabama. led the
fight for seating tho whole Gerow
scction. and Committecmap Work
OF Colorado fathcred "a move TO seat
neither. Mr.. Warren. OF Michigan.
however, presented the compromise
by which both sets OF delegates at
langc OF the Gerow and Anderson
factions were ordered seated with n
half vote each. The contest against
the four Gcrow district delegates
collapsed at the last moment, and
they were ordered seated. The re-
suit gave National Committeeman
Bean six votes out of eight in the
State delegation. and seemed to
forecast his reelection to the ma
tional committee.
Pritchnrd Delegates Seated.
The North Carolina contest, which
was a straight out and out black
and white issue, resulted in the
seating of the white delegation.
pledged TO Judge PritchDd, led by
John NJ. MoFchead. OF Charlotte.
n. c.. national committeeman. In
the contest from the Sixth District
Of Tennessee one delegate counted
in the Wood column was seated. In
the Second Oklahoma District. two
regularly reported delegates. unln-
structed. were seated. and the con-
test was dismissed. The contest in
The Fifth Oklahoma Distrist involved
the organization of National Con-,
mitteeman McGraw. His delegates
prevailed and four were seated with
a half vote each. similar con-
test from the Fourth Oklahoma Dis
trict was referred to a subcommittee.
The days work disposed OF thirty
votes and still left seventy-hve in
contest. In all sixty-two convention
seats. out of 1871 contested. had been
decided, but the remaining contests
promise to consume less time and
may be finished up by Saturday. Tho
Georgia case still was awaiting de-
cision when tho committee adjourned
until tomorrow. The lineup of
delegates in the various columns
stood this way at the close of to-
days work:
Wood. III; johnson. 112; Lowden.
Sc; Harding. 80; Poindexter IA:
Sproul. &c; Sutherland, 16; Pritchard.
.2; remaining in contest, rs: unn-
structed. 445--total, 9s2.
After the days session all the COM
nitteemen were guests at the an
nual dinner given in their honor by
Fred w. Upham. the treasurer.
Senator johnson Ready,
Senator Johnson said he had not
yet decided whether he would con-
suct fight on the league covenant
from the convention floor. II the
light becomes acute. he said, or there
Is n tendency to dodge tho issue, he
may take tho floor. Tho Senator
Iaid he had not decided on any par
ticular declaration, and added:
II want declaration in the Mat
form that requires neither cxplana-
tion nor reservation. want the
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