The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06
Refuse to Seat Any of Con- tentants In Two Missouri Districts-Earnest Pleas of Virginia Negroes for Seats Are Rejected
By Associated Press

By Associated Press
 Chicago, June 5.-Delegate contests which have furnished spectacular features of the pre-I svention period were finished tonight by the repub- lican national committee with decided advantage to Gov ernor Lowden.
 Although on actual instructions of the 137 contested delegates General Wood received twelve and Governor Lowden seven, with 116 uninstructed, the reported leanings of the disputed delegates favoring the Illinois goy- ernor
 The committee in the two Missouri seats refused to seat any contestants. All of the eleven district delegates from Virginia aligned with the Slemp faction were seated. The committee rejected earnest pleas of negro con- testants for seats and also decided separate organization contests in the Third and Eighth districts in fla vor of the Slemp faction.
 According to the reports of the can didates favored by the delegates seat ed, the 1855 delegates involved were distributed as follows:
 Wood, IS; Lowden, 65; Johnson, 4; Judge Pritchard of North Carolina, IT; uninstructed and scattering, 31, ed entirely.
 ALL TO BE APPEALED
 All of the contests are expected to ha annaathd tn the cOnVanfiQn dentials committee and subject to re- vision by the convention itself.
 A sharp controversy between white and negro contestants today for seats in the national convention was fol- lowed by the adoption by the repub- lican national committee of a resolu- tion authorizing subcommittee to in- vestigate conditions in the southern states with view of reorganizing the republican party into more effec- tive organization.
 The resolution by National Commit teeman Jackson of Maryland had the support of southern committeeman. II says:
 Whereas, It is increasingly ap- parent that the so-called solid south is in fact an economic issue strongly inclined to the principles of the re- publican party; and,
 Whereas. It Is obvious from repeated contests before the national commit tee and other facts no less noteworthy that republican votes in many of these states are not increasing in proportion t9 the increasing belief in republican principles.
 Resolved, That the chairman of the national committee appoint a special committee of three of it's members, one of whom shall be from the south, who shall very carefully and impartialiy study the whole political situation ir the south and also it's relation to tha, in the north, with view of reporting at the next meeting of the national committee. or as son as the specia committee thus appointed shall b. ready; how the republican party ir states of the south shall be reorgan. ized or constituted to make it a more effective agent for the spreading ana recording of republican principles ant of election of republican electors"
 Chairman Hays of the national com. n.ittee will be an ex-offico member oi the subcommittee.
 ATTACK ON MOSES
 The final days proceedings in dis. position of the contests which have kept the committee on the job for solid week. were marked by an attacl OH ocHdtoI NlooSS Ol 4NCW IldtipSnlI' for his charges that steam roller tactics had been employed against Woot delegates and by unanimous adoption of a resolution looking to reorganiza ton of the republican party in thu solid south.'
 The committees decisions left tn, actual instructed lineup on the con vention temporary roll without regar' to uninstructed delegates.
 Known leanings are as follows:
 Wood, 124; Johnson, 112; Lowden 72; Harding. 39; Poindexter. 14; Sproul 76; Sutherland 16, and Judge Pritchar, of North Carolina, 22.
 The resolution for reorganization 0
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