Evening star., 1952-02-27
Nicely Invites
plan 10 Elect
DC. Delegates
Ready 10 Consider 7
Law II Reside
indicate Desire
lY hAn 4, WaIEan

Dlstflet Committee said today no
~ ready 90 take up the question
I0l 4 law 10 regulate the election
I0f District DELEGATES 10 the IlRs
elenal political conventions
there 4 4 showing that IA what
residents here want,
f'he West VlPalnia Democrat
aFgent advocate OF District home
pHieI SAID Everybody knows I
favor letting District people vote
on Rnvthlna,"
District Observation-Disclosures
GENT leaders may spark A move l0V
delegate elections M 4 strategy
meeting scheduled for t0m0vvOW,
according 10 Robert ", MeEaughs
IN, club president, The local
Eisenhower Steering C0mmittAe,
no said, also VIII decide whether
10 ask tor congressional hearings
on how Republican convention
delegates haVe been chosen here
In tho past,
SHHe NORTHUMBERLAND
Senator Case Of South Dakota,
ranking Republican on the Dis
tFlct Committee, said, In general.
no believes In primaries to select
delegates, But he suggested that
maybe the rules ought not be
changed after the cams starts" He
withheld judgment as to whether
this was the time, four months be.
fore the convention, to enact O
law.
District delegate bills have been
considered In Congress sporad.
ically over o period Of years, never
with favorable action. The late
Senator Capper, Republican, of
Kansas sponsored such moves In
the Senate and Representative
Mary T. Norton, New Jersey Dem.
ocrat, was among House hackers.
A current bill 10 backed by Repre-.
sentative Kennedy, Democrat, Of
Massachusetts,.
There we're two other fnaneuvers
yesterday by Eisenhower SUP.
p0rterS here In their campaign TO
capture at least some Of the Dis
trictS Six delegates to the July I
Chicas0 Republican convention.
Calls for Register.
Mr.. Mclaughlin announced he
IL calling on the District Hebubli.
can Committee for access % The
register OF Republicans who voted
here In lB4B for convention deies
safes tie said his gF0uD wanted
70 zee what practices we're i0la
! loved He added, frankly, thai
l1ls eafilpalHher5 wanted 10 eens
baeb these potential VeteFsl
Joseph g. MeaapFaahV, ReDubs
llean Committee chairman, WAS
!, n0nHe0mlnlttal,
" don't know n n can be done y
! he told The star, In the llpak
| place, no sald, he did not know
where theAe old records are EepE,
! IN n later IIl0ve, MP, MelIauahllH
HHVe. reporters what he eHlled
proof ,qf hla contentious that, In
B4B, thH Republican "gld nllapdO
hHH HhHBHHd IN AeareL pHHlaLrHtl6n
ef Republicans In Lhe III DlALpla6
pfHpliHtA and thHt thefe WaA F6ll
! call lhAteHd NJ Aeereb bAll6tIhal
f'heAe ehAFaes bF6uaht aaHlala
if6hl bAiiiHA g. WllkHhI Il IileBlbHp
OF the G9hlmlttee Wh4l IN ib4s,
was Republican Htate e9mmltleS
chairman
| shOwA Cary 0l Letter,
Mr MeHauRhliB dlsplaVed a
copy 9l h ietteP he said ghRlPs
! man Wilkes had sent 0ut ApPn
ibl 1875 20 precinct captains
nHngl0sed" II sRld, naPe 9fa
flelal enrolment Sheets on which
YOU Are authorised tO accent The
enrolment 0f n person guallhed
~ vote IN your election dlatPlGt,n y
Vhls WA IN addition IN central
geRlAtFAtl0n M nm Once at alR
Fourteenth atpeet NV,
nv, Wilkes said thlE was In
Keeping with practices followed fOF
many years and had the nBTpnEe
Gf eHmHlatlng registration, which
~ hest, always was only 0 fTaes
ton Of potential voters,
"RHt there was nothing secret
about w." no said, Any worker
could ask friends, neIghhors and
relatives to register and vote, II
they We're ~, didn't vote else
where, were District residents and
, subscribed to Republican princl-
! Piles,
The Wilkes letter also outlined
that at precinct meeting there
: should be a roll call for voting,
: Mr., Mclaughlin charged this
showed O lack Of secret balloting,
/, Mr.. Wilkes denied this, declaring
that, In all cases where there was
} any contest over delegates, voters
! answering their precinct roll
: calls wrote their ballots privately
and put them into the ballot
j. boxes.