The Washington times., 1921-03-02
C. 0. ?. TO CUT
VOTE Of SOUTH
National Committee Proposes to
Reduce Representation at
Party Convention.

Reduction Of Southern representa-
ton in Republican national conven-
tons may materialize after all. This
was indicated yesterday by Chair
man Will II. Hays, of the Republi-
can national committee, who came
to Washington, first to attend the
Inauguration and TO enter the Hard
ing Cabinet and next to attend two
important Republican committee
meetings, says j. Fred Essary in q
Washington dispatch to The Balti-
more Sun.
TO NAME COMMITTEE.
subcommittee Of the national
committee headed by Congressman
slemp OF Virginia. will meet today to
formulate a preliminary report for
the upbuildins OF the Republican
party In the South by reducing Its
respectable. To do this, It is agreed
In advance. the Southern negro Is to
have less voice than any time since
slavery In the affairs OF the party.
The Slemp committee will report
Thursday to the Republican National
Committee and the Republican Execu-
tive Committee. which VIII sit jointly
| for the purpose of working out recon-
struction plans In the South. Those
who favor reduced representation for
the Southern States and those who
are opposed to IL will be heard.
Sometime before June the ma
tional committee VIII meet again
and announce the reduction that is
20 be enforced. That body. Hays ex-
planned, is under a mandate from the
iast PannhlInun 90
to pc into effect decrease In
Southern convention votes. A year
was allowed the committee. Hays
said. In which to act and he prom
ised that 1t would act within that
time.
Already Republican politicians of
the South, who for two generations
have traded upon the South's vote in
Republican conventions, are in
Washington. The most prominent OF
the lot Is Henry Lincoln Johnson, OF
Georgia, the negro leader who con-
trolled that States vote in the last
convt< ton at Chicago. He will fight
to the last any move to deprive the
South of its present balance OF
power and any move to subordinate
the negro in Southern politics.
G. o. p. NOT UNIT.
But Southern Republicans are not
a unit on this proposition. Hays
said that another delegation from
Georgia has arrived in Washington
to demand that their States repre-
sentatives be reduced from IT to s.
They are convinced that the party
can never hold up it's head in South
ern communities SO long as II is in
partnership with the negro and as
long AS II has representation in Re-
publican conventions based upon the
negro population in the Southern
States.
At present the South's representa-
| ton in the Republican conventions is
| close to one-third of the total vote.
| This one-third has more than once
in 1912 and brought about the split
in the Republican party.
The Southern States are now repre-
scented in Republican conventions as
| follows: Alabama, IA; Arkansas, 10:
Florida, 8: Georgia, It: Kentucky, %;
Louisiana, IL; Mississippi. ~: Mort h
Carolina. %: South Carolina, II;
Tennessee, 20; Texas, %, and Virginia.
Is. Maryland, West Virginia and
Missouri are not considered Southern
state and will not be dealt with in
the Slemp report
TO DISCUSS wOMEN's ROLE.
The Republican chieftains also will
take up the question of a more liberal
participation of women in Republi-
| can politics, Hays said.
Regarding the Republican deficit.
the chairman said today that IL had
been reduced to about $1,000 900 and