Evening star., 1936-06-04

the nght against the watson organ
ization and who was reported to be
for Col. Knox for President, Is also
one Of the delegates at large in
structed to vote for the Kansas Gov
ernor.
Unable to Resist.
The drift TO Landon in Indiana. as
elsewhere, was too strong for these
gentlemen. who apparently have COM
promised their own differences tenn
porarily. and by a compromise. have
had themselves both elected delegates
at large to the national convention.
/ Don B. Irwin. State chairman and
a member Of the Watson organization,
Is third delegates at large, and Wat
son has seemingly again escaped a
political death by the skin of his
| teeth.
OF the total % Indiana delegates
"a are for Landon.
The Republican National Committee
continues today with its hearings OF
delegate contests. That for the Dis
trict Of Columbia's three seats in the
| convention comes last on the list of
contests, but the committee hopes
| to reach it before the final adjourn
ment today. Under the resolution
adopted by the committee for the
| conduct of these contests. the Ma
| tional Committee members from the
State or District affected are not per-
| mitted 10 take part in the voting
or even to be present when the COM
mittee votes on the contest in secret
| session. This means that Edward F.
Colladay and his colleague, Mrs. Vir-
ginia White Speel. national commit
teeman and committeewoman. respec-
lively, for the District Of Columbia,
will not be permitted to vote in the
District contest.
Considerable interest centerS in
the District of Columbia fight Col
laday heads one faction and Leo A.
Rover, who hopes to succeed Colladay
as national committeeman for the
District. the other. Colladay is COM
mitted to Landon for President and
has worked day il and day out to
aid in bringing about his nomination
The Colladay delegates are instructed
for Landon. The Rover delegats. on
the other hand, are uninstructed.
Landon managers insisted today
however. that they did not intend
to make of the District contest a
test of Landon strength in the Ma
tional Committee. They said that
they proposed to let the contest
be decided "on its merits entirely
by the committee after it had heard
all the arguments advanced by both
sides. Both sides are worried over
the outcome.
Unless the Landon people in the
National Committee do turn in fol
Colladay and his delegates. there seem.
to be a fair chance that the Rovel
delegates, headed by Joshua Evans, jr.
will be placed on the temporary rol
Of the national convention by actor
of the National Committee. Both
factions have been turning HEAVIER
and earth to win over members of tht
National Committee to their cause.
II the Landon people we're less SURE
Of the nomination of their candidate
they might not be so willing to lei
this District of Columbia contest b.
settled without lining up all theil
strength to put over the Colladay
slate.
A couple of delegate contests were
settled yesterday afternoon. The
lilly white" delegation from Florida
headed by National Committeeman
John F. Harris, was seated In pref
erence to a colored delegation, headed
by D. D. Powell and j. Leonard Lewis
In vain did Lewis argue to the COM
mittee that in Florida there are five
times as many colored registered Re-
publican voters as there are white. 1r
vain did he charge that the Harris
delegates are ''neophyte Republicans
former Democrats and the like. Tht
committee found that the Harris del
egates had heen elected in a regular
way and that the colored delegates
had not.
A contest in the first Georgia dis
trict was settled by the withdrawal O.
Charles E. Donnelly and the seating
Of E. K. Overstreet. The committet
also turned down q plea of Frank L
Smith, national committeeman To-
Illinois, that the eighth Illinois dis
trict be allowed to have two delegates
seated in the convention instead o
only one. The call sent out for th'
convention had allotted to the distric
one delegate. because the Republican
vote in that district in the last election
had been small.
Chairman Henry P. Fletcher Of th'
National Committee brought cheer Il
/ the Republican hearts when he an
nounced that the deficit Of $206, 900
: which he had inherited when he be
! came chairman q couple Of years ago
. had been paid OF and the COMMITTEE
: had q balance on hand Of $4,000