, 1921-06-17
DISGRACE WIPED OUT.

The basis upon which the next national convention
win be constituted, as changed b. the Republican ma
tionsi committee at its recent meeting will be:
-Four delegates at large from each state.
Two additional delegates at large for each repre-
sentative at large in congress from any state.
Two delegates at large for each of the territories.
Two delegates at large from each state casting a
majority of its electoral votes for the Republican
presidential nominee in the last preceding election.
One district delegate from each congressional dis
trict maintaining a Republican district organization
and casting $500 or more votes for any Republican
presidential elector or Republican nominee for con-
gress in the preceding election.
One additional district delegate from each congress
sional district casting 10000 votes or more for any
Republican clector or Republican congressional nomi-
nee in the preceding election.
One alternate delegate to each delegate to the ma
tional convention.
A state, il its laws require. may elect the total
number Of delegates permitted under the plan at large,
and in case the state laws SO require the total num-
Der of delegates at large shall be the same as If they
were elected by districts.
The change in representation, based on the Repub-
hcan votes of the last election, reduces by % the
number Of delegates accredited from the southern
states to the Chicago convention last June. This rep
resents a cut of II per cent in the number of dele
gates from those states since the 1912 convention.
Under the new apportionment. the next national con-
vention will be made up of 1857 delegates, So more
than the last unless there are great changes in tile
state votes of last fall upon which the calculation was
made.
congressional district, but under the new plan a dis
trct must have cast $500 Republican votes in the
last preceding election before IL may send q delegate
to the convention. To have two district delegates
there must have been cast 10000 Republican votes,
or a Republican representative must have been elected
to congress. Under the former plan, 1900 votes gave
two delegates.
Provision is also made in the new plan for seat
ing two additional delegates-atlarge from each state
carried at the last preceding election by the Repub-
fCans. SEss
Tennessee is no longer considered a part of the
solid south and is givea an increased representation
of two delegates as 4 result of the last election when
the state was carried by the Republicans and a gov
ernor and five out of ten congressman elected.
The southern states, under the new plan will be
affected as follows:
Arkansas, increased l..
Florida, increased =.
Georgia. reduced z.
Louisiana, reduced 3.
mississippi, reduced 8,
South Carolina, reduced 7.
Texas, reduced 2.
Virginia, increased /.
North Carolina, no change.
Alabama, no change.
The net result is that these states, unless changes
come in the voting will send 144 delegates to the
national convention in 1924 instead Of 1877 as was
the case at Chicago in 1920.
The new plan was devised by National Committee
man R. B. Howell of Nebraska, who has been a con-
sistent fighter for years to end the unfair representa-
ton from southern states that produced no electoral
votes for president and elected no Republican mem
bers of congress, oftentimes maintaining no organ
ization and having no candidates.
After many years effort what has been denomi-
mated the southern disgrace" has been wiped out.