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Show LOWDEN FORCES Twenty-five Delegates Counted Count-ed Into Governor's Column. CHICAGO, Juno 4. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Lowden forces cuunt-ed cuunt-ed twenty-five delegates into tholr columns -as the result of today'o decisions de-cisions of contests by tho Republican national committee. Tho Wood forces, In turn, lost an equal number( w;ucn would have boen counted for thorn had tho pending contests been sustained. sus-tained. All attempts to split decisions were lost. While various committeemen professed to see behind tho arguments for party harmony which were advanced ad-vanced a reflection of personal views as they might be favorablo to Governor Gover-nor Lowden and General Wood, tho committee in repeated roll calls refused re-fused to mako compromises and proceeded pro-ceeded to make decisions on tho evi-donce evi-donce of party regularity in tho local and district machinery. Lowden forces started off on a winning win-ning streak by winning tho contests in tho eight congressional districts of Mississippi. They claim all thoso dole-gates. dole-gates. Thoy won a half vote In the Second congressional district of Oklahoma, Okla-homa, whore tho Wood forces won half a vote also by the seating of Dr. Hugh Scott of Holdenvlllo and Albert Kelly of Brlstow. Then tho Lowden chiefs claimed another addition when tho committee voted to seat tho regularly reported delegates from South Pnrnlinn k National Committeeman TolborL Tno Tenth district of Tennessee went to the regularly reported delegate, R. R. Church, a negro of Memphis, but that was claimed by none of the managers. Tho spectacular decision of the day was tho hard -fought and long-delayed contest from Georgia, whoro the delegates, dele-gates, headed by Henry Lincoln Johnson, John-son, at Atlanta negro, who, it was testified tes-tified boforo the senate committee investigating in-vestigating campaign expenditures, re-coived re-coived ? 9,0 00 from the Lowden campaign cam-paign fund, were resisting tho attack of a set of oontesting delegates admittedly ad-mittedly organized by Frank H. Hitchcock Hitch-cock and counted for tho candidacy of General Wood. Before the committee adjourned to continue in a night session, Johnson's big four the delegates at large had been seated on tho ground of organization organ-ization regularity in their convention proceedings, and the First and Socond Georgia congressional districts also had been seated the same way. Tne evidence In tho six districts romalnlng in contest was said to be much of tne same nature. South Carolina and Georgia contests brought the race issue and the coior line into the deliberations of the con-mlttee con-mlttee despite all efforts. Lowdeu for Reservations. CHICAGO, June 4. Touching on tho league of nations, tho governor today took issue with the program announced by Senator H, W. Johnson and declared he favored the pcaco treaty and league of nations covenant will "substantially the Lodgo reservations." reserva-tions." "I don't think," said Governor Lowden, Low-den, "that we can repudiate the entire treaty. I faVor the treaty with ome reservations, and thos0 drafted by Senator Lodge, substantially meet my desires. , ., . ' |