South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-02

tee is now trying TO find the answer
to that question and has selected
the state of Georgia as the theater
of its operations.
With the full approval Of Press
Harding the national committee is
moving to bring about in Georgia
the perfection of a republican or
ganization that will be a model for
other states of the south and which
viii carry forward the &. o. p.'s in
vasion Of that section.
The program in brief is that 100
representative Georgia republicans,
whose names are being selected az
the national headquarters here, and
who are being chosen from among
the half-dozen or more state fac
tons. shall meet in Atlanta, COM
pose their differences, agree UPON
the distribution of patronage, dis
band their present factional com
mittees and cliques and form a new
and harmonious body TO represent
d more stable and respectable re-
publican party in that state.
II the Georgia experiment works
successfully it is the plan of the
administration and the national
committee TO try IL out in other
southern states where factiOnal rows
now are bothering the administra-
ticH and holding back the progress
of the party. Underneath the en-
tire program is the desire of the
president and his associates to draw
90 the republican party the better
element in the southern states and
TO take control from mere Office
seekers and politicians who have
brought the Iarty into disfavOr in
their own communities and at ma
tional conventions.
Would Gust johnson Type.
Although there is as yet no ad-
mission 10 this effect. il is also be
heved here that the Georgia con
vention is intended as a start to-
ward the elimination of Henry Lin
coin Johnson. colored, as a membe~
OF the national committee from
Georgia. With a colored commit
teeman from Georgia the commit
tee is now embarrassed in its appeals
10 southern white voters 10 affiliate
with the g. o. p. III Johnson should
resign, il undoubtedly would relieve
the republican party in the south
Of a part of its handicap. according
TO republic an leaders at the capital.
The call for the Atlanta confer
enCe issued by the republican ma
tional committee contemplates that
no man seeking office shall have any
parucipa ton. whatsoever. The com
mittee contemplates that no man
seeking office shall have any par
uciLauon. whatsoever. The com
mittee directs that the conference
shall be composed Of persons mot
an ofiiceholder. nor seeking Office
now, aid not the relative OF either
an office holder or one seeking Of
fee. nor one who heads or il lead
ing person in any of the leading fac
lions now existing"
Until this committee OF 100 meets
and formulates "a policy both as %
patronage and party politics in the
state it - indicated that there will
be no distribution of federal jobs in
the state. The president. Atty. Gen
DauEherty. Postmaster Gen. Hays
and Rel Bascomb Slemp. OF Vir-
ginia. are the moving spirits in the
proposal for a rehabilitation Of the
republican party In Georgia and
other states where unsausfa Glory
conditions now exist.
The participation OF colored re-
pubnctns in the Georgia convention
viii be permitted and they will have
their say. but they will be out-num-
bered by the whites and must agree
90 accept the conclusions that may
be reached by the committee OF one
hundred.