Evening star., 1928-05-18
DELEGATE CONTEST
HEARINGS CALLED
Butler Orders G. O. P. Ma
tionaI Committee to. Meet
in Kansas City June 4.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Chairman William NJ. Butler of the
Republican national committee has is
sued a call for his committee to meet
in Kansas City June for the pur-
pose of hearing the contests from a
number of States and districts for dele
gates to the national convention, which
opens in the Missouri city June II.
The contests may involve more than
80 delegate seats, and their results may
have an effect upon the presidential
nomination.
Already there have been officially
filed with the Republican national COM
mittee contests involving 36 delegate
seats, and the information at headquar-
ters is that there may be as many as
48 more delegate contests.
With the exception of the Alaska
delegates, two in number, and those
from the District of Columbia, the con-
tests for delegate seats are all from
States south of the Mason and Dixon
line. They are the kind of contests
which have come to the national COM
mittee every four years from Southern
States, where factioaal differences
have arisen among Fapublicans, one
group seeking to ouSs another from
control.
Contests Alrea0T Filed.
Those contests which have already
been fled with the NATIONAL commit
tee are: Florida. four delegates at large
tthere may be district contests also) !;
Georgia. first. fifth and seventh dis
Ticts. with one delegate each: Ken
lucky. first district. with two delegates:
Louisiana, four delegates at large and
eight district delegates, IL in all; South
Carolina, four delegates at large and
six districts with one delegate each, IL
in all: Tennessee. third district, with
two delegates. and tenth district. with
one delegate. 1t has been reported that
tie contest in the third Tennessee dis
trict has been abandoned. but no off,
ciai notification has yet come to the
committee that this is the case.
The other expected contests are: Dis
trict OF Columbia. two delegates; Alaska.
two delegates: Mississippi, four dele
gates at large and eight districts. with
one delegate each, IL in all. and Texas.
four delegates at large and Is districts,
some with two delegates. total 20 dele
gates.
Chairman Butler said today that he
hoped the contests could be heard and
disposed of promptly by the national
committee. so that the temporary roll
for the national convention could be
ready Saturday or Monday before the
opening of the convention. The call
for these hearings may make it neces-
Sary for the contesting delegates to 90
to Kansas City at an earlier date than
had been planned.
In Florida the contest involves an
effort of one faction of the Republicans
to oust Republican National Commit
teeman George Bean from control. The
anti-Bean faction has been for q
Hoover-instructed delegation. and the
Bean Republicans have stood for an
uninstructed delegation. The Georgia
contests are for control In the three
districts involved rather than over
Republicans have announced for Cool
idge first and Hoover second, for the
presidential nomination.
Three Sets Compete.
The first district of Kentucky has
three sets of delegates contesting for
Its two delegate seats. Kentucky has
been Solidly for Hoover. In Louisiana.
the contest Is largely between the two
factions headed by Emile Kuntz. Re-
publican national committeeman. and
Walter Cohen. colored Office holder
The Kuntz faction has named a Hoover
delegation. Cohen is for an uninStruct-
ed delegation. The South Carolina
delegate scrap Is over the continued
control of National Committeeman Joe
Torbert, He has been favorable to the
nomination Of Frank o. Lowden for
President,
In Tennessee the third district con-
test. still officially before the commit
tee. has been between two delegates sup
porting Hoover. but against the organi-
zation slate headed by Representative
Taylor. national committeeman, II was
reported some weeks ago that this con-
test had been withdrawn and the
Tennessee situation Straightened out.
The Tennessee delegation Is reported
10 be for Hoover, The third district
contest IN Tennessee, the Memphis dis
trict. Is a contest against Bob Church,
colored. who has long been q power
among the Republicans of that district
The Texas contests involve the lead
ership OF National Committeeman
Creager, who Is heading a Hoover dele
cation, The contest Is made by Repre-
sentative Wurhach, Texas sole Repuh-
lican representative and his supporters,
who favor an uninStructed delegation