New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
Reed Barred
From Seat by
Wilson Forces
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threatened bolt from the party If the
committee seated the Palmer delegates
After the Administration leaders hao
demanded that the committee refuse
to seat Senator Reed as a delegate
from the oth Missouri District. Sen.
ator Reeds friends served notice that
the Reed followers would bolt the
party next November unless Reed was
seated.
When the national committee met
this morning to hear the contests, a
motion was adopted providing for
open sessions to receive the arguments,
but that the balloting be secret.
+. II. Moore, national committeeman
from Ohio, moved to reconsider the
motion when the arguments in the two
contests were concluded, and several
members of the committee who had
voted earlier in the day for secret
ballotlng supported the motion.
The Democratic party cannot afford
to place itself in the position of con-
quoting this convention in secret" Mr.,
Moore declared.
wee Chairman Kremer opposed the
notion. declaring that time would be
saved IT the voting on the contests
should be done in executive session.
Anti-Wilson Men Overruled
On the rollcall the national commit
teemen from fourteen states whose
delegations are openly fighting Presi-
dent Wilson voted for the Moore mo-
ton. They were Colorado, Illinois.
Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi. Nebraska
New York, North Dakota, Ohio, South
Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont and
Alaska. ''o
The national committee in open ses-
sion trst took up the Georgia contest.
where the forces headed by Tom Wat
son sol and former United States Senator
floKe smith were contesting the seats
OF OF the twenty-e ight delegates from
that state instructed by the state con-
yention to vote for A. Mitchell Palmer
1or the Presidential nomination.
IN demanding that the contesting
deelegatlon representing the Watson
Smith forces be seated in place of the
liner delegates former Senator Hard
wick declared that Palmer received
only one-third Of the votes in the
georgia primary, and that the Pal
mer delegates represented the senti
ment OF only one third of the Demo
Gratis of Georgia.
III this committee slaps twothirds
OF OF the Democrats of Georgia in the
ace ace 1t Will have to take the RESPONSE
MY Ao1iuIe Ol CNOSo Demo-
crats to go along in the future" Hard
wick declared.
Albert Howell, of Atlanta, brother
OF National Committeeman Clark How
ell, represented the Palmer forces Ha
mage legal argument for the seating
of Palmer's delegates, declaring that the
rules of the party in Georgia entitlad
them to seats in the convention.
From the time the case of Senator
Reed was taken up the room in tha
convention hall where the contests
were being heard was in a continual
uproar NA
Francis NJ. Wilson, Federal District
Attorney at Kansas City and an op-
ponent of Senator Reed in the League
Of Nations fight, Led the fight for the
seating of Reed
1T is not my understanding that
mere Ile; is contest in this case" Mr..
Wilson said
The question is whether the 5tb
District of Missouri shall be permitted
10 select, not once, but twice. its dele
gates to this convention"
Ihe various o-delegates met in
state convention at Joplin, Mo-. on
April %, Wilson said, and those from m
Jackson County, which is the 5th Dis
,,rlct, recommended Senator Reed and
Joseph B. Shannon. The state conven-
lon accepted Shannon, but Mr.. Wilson
cad from the records of Ahe state
meeting to show that the convention |
'etused to accept Reed, but did not |
'e)ect him as a delegate. simply re-