The Cordova daily times., 1921-05-21
REPUBLICANS
 WILL CONVENE
 AT WASHINGTON
BY COL. WINFIELD JONES

lO COlSluGI representation Ol the SOutn
 in future national conventions, said today that the next meeting of the
 national committee will be held in this city early in July, tentative
 date of July having been selected.
 The subcommittee will make re- port on southern representation in
 June. This report will be laid be-
 fore the full committee at the July meeting.
 Representative Bascom Slemp, of Virginia, is chairman of the sub-com mittee on consideration of southern representation. The other members
 are Kinsley, Vermont; Mulvane, Kan sas; Healing, Indiana; Howell, Me- braska; Hynicka, Ohio; and Williams, Oregon.
 The committeeman decided to gath
 CT first hand information in the
 southern states before making re-
 port on representation Members of
 the committee will individually make such investigations, proably during
 the last part of June, but the commit
 tee as body will not visit the
 south.
 Sentiment in the committee, it was learned, is almost unanimous for
 complete reorganization of southern representation in future national Re- publican conventions. This senti- ment also is general among the mem bers of the national committee, as well as among practically all the Re
 publican leaders in the northern states. There is much sentiment for a thorough reorganization and re apportionment of the vote from the south in future national conventions,
 can votes cast in each congressional
 district in national elections.
 It has been felt for a long time by Republican leaders in the north that the south has been represented in Republican national conventions by delegates out of all proportion to the actual number of Republican votes cast in these states in national elections. In many states in the south the Republican vote in national elections, by congressional districts, has been so small to be ludicrous. and yet these districts have the same representation in the national conven- 1 tions as districts in the north which
 cast huge Republican majorities. The south, through the present system, has thus been enabled to wield an in-
 fluence in the national conventions
 which many Republican leaders be-
 lieve is not warranted by the showing made in the elections.
 1 In the last national election Mis- | sissippi cast about 11,000 Republican votes and South Carolina less than
 5000. Yet these states were permit, | ted delegates in the Chicago conven- tlon just the same as if they had
 polled very large Republican votes. In other southern states the Re.
 publican organization is merely an
 aggregation of federal office holders, held together for the purpose of pa- tronage, and no more deserves to
 control that patronage than a small Democratic minority would be en- n In cfo
 mont.
 Then, too, there has been much complaint from the south of the type of men who have gained control of
 the Republican organizations there With few exceptions these men are
 not of the highest class of citizenship and many of them are not a credit
 to the Republican party in their own
 state
 A great many reputable southern Republicans, who are high-class pro- fessional and business men, recognize this state of affairs and are anxious to have a complete housekeeping.
 These men are striving hard to build
 up respectable Republican organiza-
 tion in the south, but they realize 1 it cannot be done until there is a reorganization from top to bottom, and particularly until some of the l scalawag Republican leaders are oust- 1 ed from control.
 The Republicans, also, in many
 southern states, are badly split into
 factions that are continually quarrel
 ing over the spells of office. In
 Georgia, for instance, it is said that
 there are as many office seekers
 as there are members of the Re-
 publican party in that state, which
 has negro now for national commit
 teeman. There are factional fights
 now being waged in practically every southern state over the annOintm epts