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Show THOSE CHICAGO CONTESTS; The reactionaries are constantly referring to the fact that tnc Progressives brought 130 contests before the Chicago convention, and that many of the 130 protests were rejected as without merit by the entire vote of the committee on credentials. This is pointed to as an unanswerable argument in proof of the lack of good faith of the Progressives, but the weakness of the contention con-tention is made evident when one considers that the committee presenting pre-senting the protests to the convention, as the representative of the Progressives, was in duty bound to gain a hearing for every Progressive Pro-gressive delegation that had a grievance. Out of the south came a majority of the contests which were unanimously thrown out by the credentials committee. It is well known that Republican primaries in the south are a farce and the selecting of delegates to the national nation-al convention is purely a contest in which sharp practice and bulldozing bulldoz-ing more often win than square dealing. With that condition known to exist, it was fair to presume that the protestants at least were entitled to" recognition before the credentials commitee. We venture ven-ture to say that the Progressive delegations from out the south were more representative of the will of the Republican voters of their states than were the delegations seated, because the delegates who won were but the tools of the unprincipled federal officeholders. |
