Evening star., 1924-06-08
D. C. DELEGATES FACE
CONVENTION PROTEST
Formal Opposition to Seating of
Local Men to Be Made on
Floor at Cleveland.
PEYSER TO PRESENT BRIEF
Prescott Criticized for Alleged
"Secretive Methods"

Formal opposition to the seating of
William T. Galliher and Thomas L.
Jones as delegates or Charles c.
Glover, jr., and James I. Cobb as
alternates from the District OF Co
lumbia to the Republican national
convention at Cleveland is to be car
ried to the floor of the convention
when it ASSEMBLIES Tuesday.
Julius I. Peyser, local attorney and
member of tho board of public edu-
cation of this city. has prepared a.
brief which he will take personally
TO Cleveland and which he and 9TH
crs, protesting against the election
of the delegates and alternates elect
cd under the auspices of the Repub-
|ican state committee of the District
the credited Republican organization
of this city, will have brought to the
attention of the open meeting Mr..
Peyser, who will depart from Wash
ington tomorrow, and the others pro-
testing against the seating of the
delegates mentioned, are acting in
behalf of the Republican central
committee and allied Republican or
ganiZationS of the District of Column
bia. which elected Aaron Bradshaw
and John T. Rhines delegates and
Albert f. Steinem and Miss Pauline
Marshall, alternates, from the Dis
trict
Committee Gets Protest.
Protests made to the national COM
mittee against the seating of the
delegates and alternates elected by
the Republican state committee were
heard last Tuesday in Cleveland by a
subcommittee on contests and after
hearing both sides the later very
readily reported favorably upon the
seating of these delegates.
Mr.. Peyser has prepared a lengthy
brief which he has sent to members
Of the national committee and which
he aims to have read on the floor of
the convention as last resort to
prevent the seating of the local state
committees delegates. Besides Mr..
Peyser, this brief is signed by George
f.. Edelin,, Harold Keats and Ben
jamin l.. Gaskins.
According to Mr.. PeySer's brief op-
position to the state committees
delegates is based upon the grounds
that their two delegates and two al
tcrnates were not electd in ac-
of the "call' of the national COM
mittee, and that they do not rep
resent the choice of the voting Re-
,publicans of the District.
Elections Arc Upheld.
1t contends that the delegates
elected under the auspices of the Re-
publican central committee and allied
organizations of the District, were
chosen in a regular and representa-
tive fashion and they represent the
choice of the mass of Republicans of
this city and that the rules of the
national committee were strictly con-
formed with.
This petition is supplemented with
affidavits, copies of letters. photo
graphs and newspaper clippings and
other exhibits, which are intended to
assist in substantiating the claims
made in the brief.
Prescott Is Criticised.
Samuel J. Prescott. chairman of the
Repu blican state committee of the
District, is criticized in the brief for
what was referred to as his secretive
political methods and his conduct of
'farcical and Illegal meetings. in the
District. 1t was set forth that the
delegates attending the so called"
Republican state convention here
we're hand picked; that no pub
licity was given to the "call" for
meeting to elect delegates to this local
state convention, and that these
meetings were inconsistent and mani
festly for the purpose of excluding
the rank and file of the Republican
voters Of the District Of Columbia