Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. REED UNSEATED AS DELEGATE Renegade Missouri Senator’s Proxy Failed to Get Him, In. The Democratic national committee Saturday night recoghized Palmer group of delegates in the Georgia contest, and refused to give Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, bitter opponent of the league of nations, a seat in the convention. The vote to keep Reed out of the convention was 34 to 12, and came After a long public hearing and an hour and a half of discussion behind closed doors. An effort to place the senator on the floor of the convention, although the Missouri state convention re-» jected him as a delegate-at-large, was expected and because of his attitude toward the administration during the senate fights over the peace treaty, it was said to be possible that strong resistance would be met before the committee. Following the state convention the Fifth district elected Reed as a delegate for the second time. He also came armed with the proxy of the alternate from the district whose selection was approved by the state convention. ■ I The Missouri delegation asserted that he had no legal claim to a seat In the convention and served Informal notice on the national committee that if Reed was seated as a delegate the entire state delegation would walk out of the convention. At the bottom of the fight, 1 of course, Is the feeling that grew out of Reed’s opposition to the league of nations and hls despicable attempts to embarrass President Wilson.