The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-12
CLEVELAND
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IN "a
National Committee Picks
Convention City Southern
Delegates Increased.
BY GEORGE II. HOLMES,
International News Service.

The Republican national con-
vention in 1924 viii be held in
Cleveland during the week begin
ming June 10.
Final decision to this effect was
reached today by the Republican
national committee in session
here. It will be the first time IN
twenty years that the convention
has been held elsewhere than in
Chicago.
Defeats smn F1Asleis0C.
The Ohio city b. the lakes cot
the decision this morning over san
Francisco and Des Moines. Chicago
had previously Withdrawn from the
race out Of Difference to the wishes
OF Administration leaders. including
President Coolidge himself, who
thought that party interests would
be better served all around IL the
convention were taken elsewhere
next year.
The vote was: Cleveland, SO; San
Francisco, 10; Des Moines, i.
Then upon a motion by William
H. Croker, national committeeman
from California, Cleveland was
made the unanimous choice.
The desire of President Coolidge
and his friends that Cleveland be
awarded the plum is understood to
have been based upon four con-
siderations: a.. Ohio was the native
State of the late President Harding;
~, Ohio has no candidate for the
nomination this year and is thus
neutral ground: 81, the Importance
of the State politically as doubtful
territory, and (A, the fact that
Illinois Republicans are torn with
factional rows that might prove en-
barrassing If the convention were
held in Chicago
The result was never in doubt
after Chicago's withdrawal, although
representatives of San Francisco and
Des Moines made vigorous efforts
up to the last minute to obtain the
convention, and both served notice
they could now be considered bidders
for the meeting in 1928.
Increase of Delegates.
Second only in Importance to the
the date was the action of the COM
mittee this morning in voting a re-
apportionment of delegates to the
convention next June which will
bring the list of accredited delegates
up to approximately 1,100, each with
an alternate.
This was accomplished only after
an acrimonious wrangle in the COM
WuHAs 1In
Howell of Nebraska warned the
committee that it was arrogating to
itself power not reposed in it by the
1870 convention, and that it was
inviting the same trouble that was
encountered in 1912"
Victory for South.
The committee, however, decided
to reverse it's action of a. wear ago,
when 1t cut down the representa-.
ton of Southern States and voted
overwhelmingly to give the States
or the solid South virtually the
same sized delegations they had in
1920.
The hundred odd additional dele
gates Will be distributed among the
thirty sew States that Cast their
electoral vote for Harding in 1920.
Tne committee calculators had
not been able to agree upon the
exact number of delegates that have
heeh added by the committees &C.
ton this morning, but the general
plsr is to give each State that
y ting carried three additional
@@ieE tes. Some States will gain
'afr@ "a some less. depending upon
lh@ s4aa OF the Republican vote In
20. saasional districts.
Fh5 action OF the committee was
neFalded with uproarious applause
rom the gallery of coIored Re.
pl,otIcans from the South, who
thronged tho snail ballroom Of the
Willard
The committee also decided today
70 recommend to the Cleveland con-
"ention that s wefnan member
'lcontinusd oa Pass ~ Colunn ~