New-York tribune., 1921-06-09

Republicans
Purge Party of
Evils Inn South,
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cut down. If the party is built up, it
is pointed out then it will be impossi-
BILE for a few clever negroes or white
men controlling negroes TO dominate
the party machine, and "deliyer" dele
gates at the convention to she candi
date whose manager has the freest
flowing barrel.
The rule as adopted is far more
drastic than those fighting for reform
had hoped for until to-day. 1t provides
first that no district shall have a dele
gate unless that district has a bona
fide Republican organization and a Re
publican candidate for Congress in the
preceding election, which in the 1924
convention will mean q Republican
election. But there is the further re-
striction that in addition there shall
be two delegates only if there were
10000 Republican votes cast in the pre-
ceding Congressional election, and no
delegate at all unless there were 2,S00
Republican votes cast.
The present rule is that there shall
be two delegates from every district
in which $500 Republican votes are
cast and one delegate from each dis
triet from which fewer Republican
votes were cast.
This rule was put through by vote
in the national committee of SO to 12,
precisely as it was reported by the
subcommittee which has been study
ing the situation. Henry Lincoln John
son, the negro who represents Georgia
on tho national committee, led the
fight against the rule, his participation
lending interest to the fight for the
reason that it was because of John
sons activities at the convention last
year in Chicago and in the pre-con-
vention campaign, which helped con-
siderably in bringing the convention
to a frame of mind where it ordered
the national committee to act on the
whole question of national representa-
tion.
Justice for Northern States
R. P. Howell, of Nebraska, who sub
mitted the report OF the subcommittee,
said it did not go as far as he per
sonally believed it should, but that it
die give greater measure of repre-
sentation, and, therefore, justice, to the
can national candidates, while at the
same time encouraging the Southern
states to strive for a reasonable goal.
The new rules also provide that
states whose electoral votes were cast
for Harding for President shall be en-
titled to two additional delegates at
Large, making six in all. Any state
electing al Representatives in Con-
gress at large may elect the dele
gates to which it is entitled at large.
III any event, there shall be allowed
swc delegates for each member of Con-
gress elected and two additional for
each iReprcs ntativ t-large.
Besides the Georgia committeeman,
vigorous opposition to the report of
the committee came from Colonel H. l..
Kennel, national committeeman from
Arkansas. He said 1t is the third time
such an effort has been made and that
iF proposes gross iniustices to the
people CT the South. Mr. Howell re-
piled that seventeen states which went
Republican in the last election had
the same number of votes or fewer
than Arkansas had.
Johnson claimed that Georgia in
1895 cast 60, 600 votes for Mckinley and
with an increase in population of 23.S
per cent and the women voting in 1920
only was able to muster, due to the
disfranehisement of the negro in his
state, 10000 votes for Harding at the
last election.
10 Encourage South
Clarence 8. Miller, secretary of the
National Committee, answered this ar
Suhlent ny Statlllg IL is pest proof that
z. mcthing must be done to encourage
the vote in Southern states, and that
every district should have an organi-
zation that can bring out at the next
Congressional election at least $500
Republican votes. He referred to the
almost insignificant vote cast for Har-
ding in South Carolina, and declared
that he Is positive there are many more
Republ leans in the state. If their par
ticipation in the election is going to
mem tangible result, he said, it more
easily will be obtained
Colonel H. It. MacGregor, of Texas,
moved as an amendment that the rules
of the committee remain unchanged ex-
scept that states whose electoral vote
was cast for the Republican nominee
be allowed two additional delegates at
large. This was defeated viva voce. An
amendment by johnson to make discre-
tionary instead Of mandatory the re-