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group to succeed Colladay as national
committeeman if the decision had
gone the other way.
Assuming the convention will adopt
the Credentials Committee report. the
District of Columbia's three votes will
be cast for Landon, the winning
group having been instructed for the
Kansas Governor
The Rover-Evans group, which had
the support of Samuel J. Prescott,
veteran leader and former State
chairman of the District Republican
organization. was uninStruCted. Since
relinquishing the post of State chair
man, Mr. Prescott has been Coun-
selor of the State Central Committee,
Successful Delegates.
The successful Colladay delegates
are James C. Wilkes, Miss Mildred
Reeves and Francis Wells. sr., the
colored member. The alternates are
C. H. Galliher, Mrs. Cooper Rhodes,
and J. Franklin Wilson, the colored
alternate for Wells.
The hearing before the Credentials
Committee, which got under way at
$3.50 am, was the decisive round in
a bitterly fought battle that began
in Washington a month ago, when two
separate conventions were held. For
40 minutes charges and counter
charges were made as Spokesmen for
each side sought to convince the
Credentials Committee it was the reg
ularly constituted delegation.
The Colladay group had won a pre-
liminary victory last week, when the
Republican National Committee placed
1t on the temporary roll of the con-
vention after a similar hearing. Much
of the argument this morning revolved
around the same testimony, but each
side produced affidavits and statements
to strengthen its contentious.
MacCracken Counsel.
William P MacCracken. il. again
appeared as counsel for the Rover
Evans side, with Joseph c. McGar-
raghy and Colladay presenting the
1OI lLIe SuNICooloL
The vote was taken in executive ses-
sion, but it was reported as showing a
substantial majority for the Colladay
ticket.
In his opening statement Mac
Cracken declared there were three
questions involved, namely:
First, whether or not in Republican
politics the majority rules; second,
whether the regular organization is the
one to be recognized, and third,
whether the people of the District have
the right to select their own national
committeeman.
MacCracken added that another
question was whether this committee
is going to put its stamp of approval
on a rump convention"
This summary had reference to the
contention of the Rover-Evans dele
CATION that it held the regular State
convention last month, with a majority
present, and that the Colladay sup
porters walked out after the unSeating
of Francis Wells, a colored precinct
delegate on the Colladay ticket, on the
ground that legal residence was outside
of the neighborhood from which he was
elected.
43 in District Convention.
The District convention is composed
OF 43 precinct delegates. who in turn
elect 43 delegates at large, to make up
the convention of 86 members, in which
the three delegates are chosen to at
tend the national convention. There
were states of candidates for delegates
at large this year. and the race for
control was close.
Vigorously contending that Wells
makes his home in the 900 block of
Fourth street, the area from which he
was elected. Mr.. Colladay argued that
the unseating of Wells as a precinct
delegate in the State convention, to-
gether with a ruling which threw out
three other votes, resulted in election
OF the Rover-Evans slate Of delegates
at large by one vote. Mr.. Colladay de-
clared that the unseating of Wells was
illegal, and that the other three votes