Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-04 | Page 12 | Lie is Passed at G. O. P. Meet

LIE IS PASSED J AT 0.0. P. MEET 1 National Committee Meeting H Has Liveliest Meeting; H Negro Causes Laughter I CHICAGO, June 1. South Carolina H contests over delegates to the Republi- can national convention furnished H fireworks and vaudeville for today's meeting of the national committee H Tho lie was passed freely and iM charges of "something rotten nearer H than Denmark" were made by the ucicfiiuus ui liu; Auama taction, counted for Wood in the course of presenting their cases against the H Tolbort delegations which are counted 1 for Lowden. IjjjjjH I5enn Is "Arranger" iMI The name Of National Committee-man Committee-man Bean of Florida was brought in H to show that he worked throughout South Carolina as an organizer for H Frank II. Hitchcock, arranTiiur con- ! testing delegations favorable to Gener- al Wood. While the argument technically h ranged abowt the question of party regularity, with the Tolbert faction H claiming that designation', the Wood I delegates brought charges of "ma-chlrie "ma-chlrie rule" which they argued under the leadership of National Committeeman Committee-man Tolbert, had reduced tho Republican Republi-can vote In South Carolina to a negligible negli-gible quantity. Thrcnls of Death Some of the negro delegates charg- v-u mu xuioeri laciion naa threatened threat-ened them with death if they attended the regularly called convention. Former Governor Hooper of Tennessee Ten-nessee presenting the enses for the Wood delegation conceded irrogularity in some cases but claimed "equitable and right." The national committee, in making ! its decisions, confined itself to the 1-question 1-question of regulority and voted in fl (favor of the Tolber.t delegation. V fl Gale of Laughter Mr. Levi, a negro from Charleston, made a plea which kept the commit- . tee in gales of lauc-hter, but it did noi win his case. He had the distinction, , however, of having the committee "thank him for his honesty" on mo-tion mo-tion of National Committeeman Jack- 1 son of Georgia. , The Tolbert delegation Is pledged to Governor Lowden. The fight from the tenth Tennessee district (Memphis) came up at the af- . ternoon session of the committee. Two i conventions were held there marked i b fist fighting and riot calls in which ! negroes and whifes were involved. The contesting delegation of whites ( are instructed for General Wood.