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Show I Aroused by Contests After Colored Were Barred From Conventions' CHICAGO, Juno 3. By unanimous resolution today the Republican national na-tional comnfittoe directed Chairman Hays to notify all state organizations that they must discontinue holding local lo-cal conventions for election of national nation-al delegates "in places where It la the custom and practice to refuse admission ad-mission -to negroes." The committee attempted to avoid the race issue but failed. Aroused by the number of contests from tho t southern states In which It was shown that district conventions were held In hotels and other places where ncgrocu 'are not admitted. Charles B. Warren, committeeman from Michigan, moved ito have the committee "issue a wurn-' wurn-' ing to the south" that contests on sim-'llar sim-'llar grounds must not. bo permitted , to come up ai the next national con- vcntlon. Southern committeemen, headed byj YV. H. Jackson, of Georgia, protested that the resolution as formed was a slur on the south and contended that1 specific mention of the southern states should be eliminated and its terms broadened to refer to the entire coun-j try. Colonel Warren accepted au amendment to .that effect and it was unanimouoly acioptod by a Vive voca vole. In support of his resolution, I Colonel Warren told the committee thai It might as well face the race issue is-sue in that wa' for the good of the party. Committeeman Hart, of Kentucky, Ken-tucky, supported the motion and declared de-clared that since Kentucky of its own action had admitted negro voters and delegates freely, Iho Republican electorate elec-torate had been greatly increased. The , southern committeemen made no ob-j jectioil to the resolution ns It was amended to eliminate specific reference refer-ence to the southern states. Colonel Warren's resolution lol-lows lol-lows : "In View of the fact that at this session of national committee and at, previous sessions of the national committee and preceding national conventions it has appeared in some slates meetings of the Itcpublicans have been called in slates where it was the custom and practice to deny access to colored people, the national committee gives notice through its chairman to all the organizations of Lc Republican party that that practice prac-tice must not be followed in the future In any state convention or in any district convention " |