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VOL. XXII. NO. 86.
DELEGATES DISORGANIZED AT CONVENTION
Lowden Is Seen as Leading Republican Candidate
FATE DF GOVERNOR
ENTIRELY IS HfflS
OF OIFIAMJOHNSDN
Managers of Rival G. 0. P,
Candidates Warn Against
Hoover as Likely “Dark
Horse” in Party Convention
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
CHICAGO, June 7. Governor
Frank Lowden, of Illinois, has the
best chance of winning the Repub
lican nomination for the presidency
because he has the most skillful and
powerful political reserves in the
convention, but his fate is entirely
in the hands of Senator Hiram John
son, of California, who holds the
veto power.
The key to the situation is the
strategy in the Johnson camp. One
sentence from him—“l will not sanc
tion the nomination of anyone for
whom delegates were bought.” would
crystallize the undertone of whispers
into a noisy apprehension that the
Missouri scandal is sufficient food
for Democratic orators to make
doubtful a victory in November. Wil
liam Hale Thompson, national com
mitteeman from Illinois, made such
a statement as he bolted the Lowden
household. Senator Borah, of Idaho,
has expressed ominous doubts about
the effect of the Missouri exposure
on the Lowden boom. But the new
‘‘old guard,” being possessed of a
stolid determination to put over a
tried and true Republican such as
they hold Frank Lowden to be are
undismayed.
So the plan is to let the Lowden
movement run its natural course,
let the balloting go on and see wheth
er the convention is disposed to be
concerned over the purchase of dele
gates in Missouri or whether it ac
cepts as final the repudiation of
those delegates by the Illinois gover
nor himself.
Lowden-Wood-Johnson Fact
An agreement has been reached be
tween the Lowden, Wood and John
son forces to keep the balloting go-1
ing, to ten ballots of necessary, to I
ascertain the exact strength of those
three leaders. Dark horses and oth
er near-candidates will not be per
mitted to reap the benefits of a dead
lock until it is absolutely demon
strated that none of the three can
win:
Dismissing for the moment the
second stage of the convention in
which the dark horses—Hoover,
Hughes, Taft, Lenroot, Allen and
Sproul—-would be considered, the
first stage of the fight presents two
opportunities for Hiram Johnson. He
can make a fight on the convention
floor the treaty of peace and
League of Nations, or else he can
attack the Lowden candidacy as the
product of money power.
The members of the committee who
will draft the Republican platform
are practically agreed upon the
plank on the treaty of Versailles.
They will favor the treaty of peace
and the League of Nations as an in
spiration and will commend the Re
publican senators for opposing adop
tion in the form in which President
Wilson submitted the document but
the ratification of the treaty and
league will be favored ‘‘with reser
vations.” Now that doesn’t mean
‘‘with the Lodge reservations.” It
means what It says—simply “with
reservations.” That excludes all the
quibbling about the phraseology ot
some of the Lodge reservations and
doesn’t tie the hands of the next
president of the United States if he
happens to be a Republican and wants
to alter the program to meet con
tingencies in the foreign situation as
they arise. Ratification "with res
ervations” will be a simple all-in
clusive expression of Republican in
tentions.
Would Eliminate Self
But Hiram Johnson is absolutely
opposed to such a plank, yet whether
he will consider it worth while to
risk his chances for the nomination
on that plank depends upon his sin
cerity.
His ardent admirers insist that he
would rather lose the presidency
than recede one ince—he will fight,
they say, against the treaty with or
without any' reservations. But if
he should wage a fight on the con
vention floor, he would certainly be
overridden as‘this convention is too
wise to oppose a simple statement
such as "ratification with reserva
tions” when it isn’t even said how
far these reservations can go. So
if Johnson made his fight and lost,
the veteran politicians are confident
that he would eliminate himself
from consideration when the ballot
ing began.
The moral damage of defeat on
the big thing on which Johnson has
waged his primary campaign would
be irretrievable. The supporters of
Lowden, Wood and the rest don’t
thing Hiram Johnson dares do it.
Nor do they believe he will assail
Lowden on the Missouri exposure be
cause of the effect that it would
have on his own political fortunes.
For while Johnson might thus elim
inate Lowden, the resentment pro
duced among the Lowden supporters,
would be sufficient to prevent the
selection of Johnson.
Fear McAdoo
Whichever way one turns, it is
Hiram Johnson who has the veto
(Continued on Page 6; Column 6.)
Irvin Cobb and Party Met
In Chicago By Uniformed
Official, IN ho Takes Baggage
BY IBVIN S. COBB
CHICAGO, June 6. —At the hour of
filing this dispatch a Sabbath calm
lies upon peaceful Chicago, even the
arrival of our party from New York,
Including in its personnel, as it did,
such notables as Bud Fisher, Ring
Lardner, Jimmy
Montague and the
mys t e rious un
known with the
private gold
mounted tooth
pick, who would
bet you a million
on anything and
who did succeed in
betting SSO on
something after
the train left Cleve
land, apparently
created no great
excitement in this
citv.
H w wil
ciiy. ,
We figured that Chicago, as the
saying goes, would be all ago. From
reading the telegrams sent by special
correspondents of eastern papers
already on the spot, we thought to
find her going right out of one se
vere gog into another. It is my pain
ful duty to inform all expectant gog
fanciers that such is not the case;
perhaps tomorrow, when the last of
the favorite sons from Ohio and the
last of the native sons from Cali
fornia and the last of the colored
'sons from Georgia and South Caro
lina have arrived, things may bright
en up a bit. But tonight the situa
tion from the standpoint of a lover
of the spectacular, the soul-lifting
and the heart-warming is decidedly
disappointing. It is as though poli
tics, for the nonce, had taken Sun
day off to rest up\in preparation for
the crowded and uncertain week
looming ahead.
Looked for Stirring Scenes
We rather had prepared ourselves
for stirring scenes from the very
moment of our arrival. True, w r e
counted on no formal reception. It
was hardly to be expected, with a
national convention on its hands,
fraught with so many complications ;
which refused to jell, that Chicago,
however flattered ner populace might
be at this prospect of our coming,
would plan any formal reception espe
cially on our account.
Lardner who used to live here al
though by birth a native of Niles,
Mich., intimated just after he passed
South Bend that he rather thought
the mayor and sortie' of the more
prominent city officials would be
down at the station to welcome him
back to the old home and he .very
generously volunteered to count the
rest of us in the greeting and promi
ised to see to It that we rode in the
second carriage on the trip across I
town to the hotel, he riding in the
first one with his honor. i
Fisher was of the opinion that the
cartoonists and members of the al
lied arts would turn out to do him
some slight honor especially as his
coming had been announced in ad
vance Montague is modesty itself,
in fact, his friends call him Moddy
for short and I by nature, am one of
the most shrinking persons alive al
though you’d hardly notice it when
I am standing with my side view to
ward you, but still and with all that
we agreed that surely in the name
of American letters some suitable
form of recognition would be, accord
ed us by local literati headed prob
ably by John T‘. McCutcheon. Emer
son Hough and Colonel Onje Reed.
Met by Uniformed Official!
A uniformed official of a most
genial and hospitable demeanor met
us with extended hands as we dis
mounted from our car. It speedily
developed though that he had not
come to present the keys to the city.
He wished merely to tote our bag
gage.
Just beyond the train shed a gen
tleman of friendly mein pressed upon
each of us a folded document. Could
these be copies of a formal address
of welcome? Truth compels me to
answer in the negative. On being
tunfnlded, these documents were
found to contain printed matter
touching upon the merits of a new
restaurant featuring prompt service,
moderate prices, too, and all home
cooked dishes.
As we issued forth from the ter
minal we were pleased to note the
approach of a double column of gen
tlemen and ladles, headed by music.
Lardner took off his hat and con
sulted a few notes which he had
jotted down in anticipation of be
ing called upon to respond to the
welcoming speech by the chairman
of the reception committee, ,-Jbut a?
the parade drew nearer and yet near
er it was to be seen that its pur
poses were evangelical. * It was made
up of. communicants of a new re
ligious cult going somewhere to hold
outdoor services.
Overcome by a sense of disap
pointment, perhaps natural under the
circumstances, the other members of
my party sought the seclusion of
their rooms, but being consoled as
I am by the reflection that things
will be vastly different back in
Paducah when I go there next week
after the convention has adjourned,
I have been strolling about town
and have just returned to my cham
ber to record these words:
Not a Single Gog
In an hour’s walk I did not run
into a single authentic gog. The
sun, sihking to rest behind a bank
of glorious soft, cool clouds in the
west, bestows Its last languid slant
ing rays upon streets sparsely filled
with folks going quietly to and fro.
For the moment, not a single glee
club raiseds its collective voices in
campaign songs. Not a single march
ing club advances to its banners to
to the accompaniment of cheers
and the creaking of many pain
ful pairs of new shoes. At the
various headquarters of the various
candidates, avowed, prospective and
potential, a few wearied partisans are
lingering.
The lobbies of the main hotels are
crowded, but then the lobby of every
mhin hotel in America has been
crowded ever since this country got
all drunk, dressed up and highly per
fumed on prosperity and the lure of
travel. Only the rumor factories
appear to be working their Sunday
shifts. For full accounts of all ru
mors see front page of this paper.
Tomorrow no doubt, there will be
a different tale to tell, but in all
honesty I must reiterate that this
Sunday so nearly resembles many
pther Sundays which I have spent in
Chicago it is difficult to make one
self believe that we are actually on
the eve of momentous doings,
fraught with lasting consequences to
booms, hopes, desires, designs, cam
paign funds and other constituent
symptoms of the fever which lies
hold upon us every four years.
(Copyright, 1920. by the Bell Syn
dicate, Inc.)
500 VETERANS OF
SECOND DIVISION
MEET IN ATLANTA
Streets Dotted With Men
Who Fought in France,
Judge Beck Makes Addres
More than 500 veterans of the Sec
ond division 4>f the A. E. F. were
in Atlanta Monday. They are here
for their second annual reunion,
which began Sunday with memorial
services at the Baptist Tabernacle
and will<end Tuesday night with a
dance at the - auditorium. A welcome
meeting at the auditorium Monday
morning, a parade Monday afternoon,
a theater performance Monday night
and a barbecue Tuesday complete the
reunion program.
But for these events and the white
arm-bands with the red Indian head
on their sleeves. Atlanta would
scarcely know .that they are among
us, for their glory—the glory of
Chateau Thierry, of Soissons, of St.
Mihiel and ’the Meuse-Argonne—-is
hidden in large part under civilian
clothes.
Here and there in the groups chat
ting in the lobby of the Piedmont
Monday morning, registering at Five
Points, strolling about the streets,
was an empty sleeve or a uniform
betokening that the wearer 'is still
in the army or the marine-corps. But
the D. S. C.’s that many might have
worn, the fouragiere awarded to sev
eral outfits of the Second, the stories
they mffrht have told, were not given
to the public.
Well-Knit Americans
Instead, they seemed just a group
of husky, well-knit young Americans,
with a remarkable capacity for
minding their own business and hav
ing a good time in their own way'.
Even among themselves, even when
buddy met buddy whom he had not
seen since a German machine gun
bullet separated them at Belleau
Wood, the conversation was not of
war.
Thus it was that it was left to
the father of a Second division vet
eran, the -father of a son who sleeps
today in the American cemetery not
far from where he fell at Belleau
Wood, to tell to Atlanta the glory
of the Second division. And it was a
pity that all Atlanta was not at
the auditorium Monday morning
when the first session of the reunion
was held and when Judge Marcus
W. Beck spoke.
His address was masterly, for he
visualized that red summer of 1918
both from the point of view of the
soldier who was there and from the
point of view of the people at home
who waited, scanning anxiously the
headlines from day to day, until the
great news came that, "with the- help
of God and a few marines,” the Ger
mans had been stopped at last.
Steers Stampede on
Ship; Plunge Into Sea;
Are Eaten by Sharks
HAVANA, June 7. —Hundreds of
fine steers stampeded on board the
American steamer St. Charles out
side-of Havana harbor Saturday aft
ernoon, and after creating a pani<?
on board the ship, plunged into the
sea, where they became a prey of
the sharks which infest the waters
off Morro Castle. Except tor a com
paratively few that swam ashore and
are now wandering about in the
suburbs of this city, all of the, 800
animals on the vessels are believed
to have perished.
Sanitary officers who inspected the
vessel on her arrival Saturday were
alarmed when they found 130 dead
steers in the hold of the ship. To
avoid possible danger to the people
of the city, they ordered the captain
of the St. Charles to put to sea, and
there throw overboard the carcasses
of the cattle that had died. While
the crew was engaged in this onerous
task the steers on board became
stampeded, broke down their cor
rals and ran amuck. Frightened ani
mals ran up and. down the decks
and plunged overboard, where the
tigers of the deep were awaiting
them. Four were seen to strike the
water almost simultaneously, and in
an instant they were dragged be
neath the surface, only a trail of
blood telling of their fate.
Tugs were sent out to the St.
Charles, and found the crew virtual
ly paralyzed with terror. For a
time there was danger the vessel
would drift on the rocks near the
harbor entrance, but it was at last
brought into port.
CURED HER FITS
Mrs. Paul Gram, residing' at 916
Fourth street. Milwaukee. VVis., re
cently gave out the following state
ment: “I had suffered with Fits
(Epilepsy) for over 14 years. Doctors
and medicine did me no good. It
seemed that 1 was beyond all hope
of relief, when at last 1 secured a
preparation that cured me sound and
well. Over 10 years have passed
and the attacks have not returned. I
wish every one who suffers from this
terrible disease would write R. P. N.
Lepso. 13 Island avenue. Milwaukee
Wis., and ask for a bottle of the
same kind of medicine which he gave
me. He has generously promised to
send it prepaid, free to any one who
writes him.”—(Advt.)
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1920.
VOLSTEAD LAW AND
DRYACTAREHELD
CONSTITUTIONAL
Petition by Rhode Island to
Enjoin Enforcement of
Prohibition Is Dismissed
by Court
WASHINGTON, June 7.—Both the
federal prohibition amendment and
the enforcement act passed by o.n
gress were held constitutional to
day by the supreme court.
The court dismissed petitions filed by
the state of Rhode Island to have
"federal officials enjoined from en
forcing prohibition in that state.
The opinion was rendered by Jus
tice Vandevanter.
The court also dismissed injunc
tion proceedings brought by the
state of New Jersey to prevent en
forcement of prohibition within that
state.
Injun.ctians restraining prohibi
tion officials from interfering with
the Mantowoc company, a
Wsconsin corporation, in the manu
facture of beer, containing more
than one half of one per cent of
alcohol, were dissolved by the court.
The court upheld federal court
decres, dismissing proceedings
brought to enjoin the prohibition
amendment from being enforced
against Christian Feigenspan, a
brewer of Newark, N. J.
Federal court decrees denying
similar injunctions sought by the
St. Louis Brewing association like
wise were affirmed.
The court’s opinion was very short,
setting forth only the court’s conclu
sions. Chief Justice White rendered
a supplemental opinion concurring in
the one rendered by Justice Vande
vanter, but going more fully into the
issues involved.
Federal court decrees dismissing
injunction proceedings instituted by
the Kentucky Distilleries and Ware
house company of Louisville, Ky„ to
enjoin enforcement of the act against
it were sustained by the court. In
junctions sought by George C. Demp
sey, a Boston, Mass., wholesale liquor
dealer, to restrain enforcement of
the enforcement act against him were
also denied by the court.
Synopsis of Decision
Following is the decision: <
“1. The adoption by both houses
of congress, each by a two-thirds
vote, of a joint resolution proposing
an amendment to the constitution
sufficiently shows that the proposal
was deemed necessary by all who
voted for it. An express declaration
that they regard it as necessary is
not essential. None of the resolu
tions whereby prior amendments were
proposed contained such a declara
tion.
"2. The two-thirds vote in each
house which is required in propos
ing an amendment is a vote of two
thirds of the members present—as
suming the presence of a quorum—
afiil not a vote of two-thirds of the
entire membership, present and ab
sent.
"3. The referendum provisions of
state constitutions and statutes can
not be applied, consistently with the
constitution of the United States, in
the ratification or rejection of amend
ments to it.
“4. The prohibition of. the manu
facture. sale, transportation, importa
tion and exportation of intoxicating
liquors for beverages purposes, as
embodied in the eighteenth amend
ment, is within the power to amend
reserved by Article V of the consti
tution.
“5. That amendment, by lawful
proposal and ratification, has be
come a part of the constitution, and
must be respected and given effect
the same as other provisions of that
instrument.
“6. The first section of the amend
ment—the one embodying the prohi
bition —is operative throughout the
entire territorial limits of the United
States, binds all legislative bodies,
courts, public officers and individ
uals within those limits, and of its
own force invalidates every legisla
tive act—whether by congress, by a
state legislature, or by a territorial
assembly—whiph authorizes or sanc
tions what the section prohibits.
“7—The second section of tjie
amendment —the one declaring ‘the
congress and the several states shall
have concurrent power to enforce
this article by appropriate legisla
tion’—does not enable congress or
the several states to defeat or
thwart the prohibition, but only to
enforce it by appropriate means.
Concurrent Power Defined
“B—The words 'concurrent pow
er’ in that section do not mean joint
power, or require that legislation
thereunder by congress, to be effec
tive, shall be approved or sanc
tioned bv the several states or anv
of them; nor do they mean that the
power to enforce is divided between
congress and the several states
along the lines which separate or
distinguish foreign and interstate
commerce from intrastate affairs.
"9 —The power confided to con
gress by that section, while not ex
clusive, is territorially co-extensiv>
with the prohibition of the first sec
tion, embraces manufacture and
other intrastate transactions as wel'
as importation, exportation and in
terstate traffic, and is in no wist
dependent on or affected by action
(Continued on Page 6, Column 2)
Ring Lardner Threatens to
Bolt If Not Nominated by
Republicans or Democrats
GOMPERS DECLARES
WAR ON MEASURES
TDPREVENTSTRIKES
Annual Convention of Amer
ican Federation of Labor
Is Under Way at Montreal.
Canada
MONTREAL, June 7. —Any attempt
to enforce compulsory labor by mak
ing strikes unlawful must be resist
ed at all costs, Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, declared today in his ad
dress at the opening of the federa
tion’s fortieth annual convention.
“I have no fear as to what the
results will be.” he said. “As long
as I have life and my mind is not
impaired I shall stand for the right
of the men and women toilers of
the world to be free, untrammelled
and unowned by any force.”
Mr. Gompers will leave tonight for
°hicago to lay before the Republican
national resolutions committee labor’s
desires in political form. In his ab
sence Mathew Woll, vice president,
probably will preside.
The first business was the report
of the credentials committee, which
was followed by the executive coun
cil and department organizations.
The Federation’s membership re
port discloses that it now has 4,078,-
740, a gain of 818,672 in the last year.
The recent steel strike cost the Fed
eration $348,509, '
According to a report on steel
strike expenditures there is still
$69,631 available for steel organisa
tion work.
Colby Apologizes to
England for Burning
Os Flag by Women
WASHINGTON, June 7.—Secretary
Colby on behalf of the American gov
ernment has tendered a verbal apol
ogy to the British ambassador for
the burning of a British flag here
last week by Irish women.
Mr. Colby said this action had
been taken pending receipt of an
official report on the incident which
the District of Columbia authorities
have been asked to submit. When
this report is in hand a formal
apology probably will be made to
the British government.
Five Are Killed in
Explosion at Plant
Os Ohio Rubber Co.
AKRON, 0., June 7. —Five persons
were killed and many injured today
in an explosion at the plant of the
Mason Tire and Rubber company at
Kent, twelve miles from here, accord
ing to reports received by local po
lice.
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CHICAGO, HI., June I. To the
editor.
Speaking about getting into old
Chi well how did the other candi
dates for the president’s chair get
into old chi. Personnaly I come in
on the next to the most expensive
train that a candidate or anybody
else could come in
on. It looks to me
like Hiram John
son come on the
Erie and probably
General Wood on
the Nickel Plate
and Admiral Hoov-,
er on the Wabash.
As for myself I
come on a train
that you have to
pay extra fare, and
not only that, but
I traveled with
the real people like
Irving R. Cobb and
Bird Fisher and
had all paid extra
fare to say noth-
I
n4i
ing about a lot of delegates from
Pennsylvania and New York who
got in on a pass but on the whole
you might say most of the delegates
come in on sheap trains and freights
and etc., ■ on account of giving all
tbeir 4ack to campaign funds which
I didn’t.
Before this convention opens I
want to make one more statement
to my constituents, and that is that
if I am not nominated at the Re
publican convention and am not nom
inated at the Democratic convention
I will run on Socialist ticket with
Eugene Debs, who is now in jail
where most of the rest of the candi
dates aught to be.
Mr. Hays and Mr. Lodge Gentlemen:
If it docs not make much differ
ence to you it would be very nice to
me if you would nominate me at
this convention instead of San Fran
cisco or jail where Mr. Debs is be
cause I am in a hurry to get back
home and see my family and make
arrangements to move to Washing
ton next fourth of March. It will
probably cost me $126 for myself
and family to move from Long Island
to Washington and personally I don’t
like to talk about financial matters
but I have not y.et had a contribu
tion for my campaign. As a matter
of fact 1 think it would pay me not
to accept the office even If I get it.
I am taking tjiis Office if I .get it
and solely as a matter of patriotism
I think I owe my country this much
and I will tell you how much I owe
other people: Lord and Taylor. New
York. $9.50; Marshall Field & Co.,
$36; a porter on this train, -50 cents.
I am not like William Jennings
Bryan who according to Ed Wynn, is
closely related to Washington and
Lincoln. He lives in Lincoln and
once went to Washington.
I have been around the different
hotels tonight looking for my rival
candidates and could not find a one
of them. They are all staying in
private houses which shows what
kind of cheap stiffs they are.
This candidate arrived in Chicago
today two hours younger than his
watch.
My platform is as follows: '
There are two things I have never
seen in my life—one is a Republican
convention and the other is a pic
ture of Shakespeare with his hat on.
The town is full of delegates to
night. Did you ever look into the
bear face of a delegate? I'did it to
day. It is just something he wears
on top of his collar. It breathes
and . eats and crosses the streets I
alone and taxicabs miss him. All I
delegates seem to be the same age, |
but why? You have got to give them I
credit; most delegates are married
unless otherwise employed.
(Copyright, 1920, Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
German Clock; Irish Airs
LONDON, Eng.—A musical clock,
alleged to have been smuggled from
Germany, created merriment in a po
lice court by refusing to stop play
ing Irish airs until' it had run down.
Scents £ copy.
J 1.50 A YEAH.
i FIGHT ON TREATY
PLANK NOT LIKELY
r TO SPLIT PARTY
i Delegates, Fresh From the
t States, Favor Nomination
1
’ of Candidate Without
1 Slush Fund Record
" CHICAGO, June 7.—No changes
1 have appeared today in the conven
» tion line-up and none are expected.
Twenty hours before the conven-
• tion assembled it is an absolutely un
t bossed, unled affair and as the be
> wildered delegates mill around the
1 hotel lobbi: bewailing the absence
t of leadership, the men who were the
5 real leaders in the years gone by,
1 find a grim satisfaction in referring
• to the charges of bossism which were
so freely hurled at them at former
conventions. They are asking dele-
' gates if it is not betetr to be led
• than lost.
s Such overnight and early morning
i conferences as were held, were jf
1 the same inconclusive nature as
[ those-which preceded them and only
: served to strengthe- program of
letting the convention learn by its
‘ preliminary ballots that none, of the
t candidates now having the most dele
i gates has enough, to nominate him.
1 The so-called leaders are still ex
plaining to inquiriers that attention
is now being concentrated on the
platform which they emphasize Is
very The best informed
observers, however, see evidences
that this is merely a screen to hide
the fact that the so-called leaders
are no longer leaders. The passing
of the old line party whips becomes
more and more evident, has brought
up an entirely new crop of so-called
i leaders, many of whom do not know
; cne another and that is one of the
things which explains the lack of
cohesive action in getting down to
definite conclusion*,
No campaign manager has been
able to strengthen his lines enougli
to go in with confidence Mr a real
test’ vote. Each one of them is wait
ing for the first ballot to demon
strate how goo . are .the assurances
be has received from the Uuinstruct
ed delegates.
All the managers look for-the first
ballot to settle the outlook consid
erably for the big three—Johnson,
Lowden and Wood They feel that
the candidate who gets the highest
number will have a potential ad
vantage and the candidate’ who
stands at the bottom of the list will /
be decidedly on the defensive. The
candidate who can make a gain on
the second ballot, the managers feel,
will provide his manager with very
valuable ammunition in rounding up’
things for the third.
Slush Fund Hurting
I Today’s business was largely
I among the slate delegations, which
I were, organizing and electing mem
bers to the convention committees.
Several good fights in the selection
of the national committeemen were
being staged.
The campaign managers and oth
ers continue to get reflexes from the
senate campaign expenditures in
vestigation at Washington. Men
who are coming in from the states
are bringing the view that the con
vention might better find a candi
date who has not been mentioned in
lhe investigation at all. It was from
such as these that came most fre
quently the names of Hughes, Gov
ernor Coolidge and others who do not
figure in any way in the slush fund
inquiry.
The New York delegation post
poned until Wednesday morning its
discussion of candidates. The de
cision was reached at the request of
Nicholas Murray Butler, who said
that he did not -want to receive any
complimentary or ‘‘favorite son”
votes.
“I want the New York delegates to
have a chance to look over the situ
ation,” he said. “I have made it
plain that I am not seeking any
complimentary vote. This is no time
for paying compliments. I do not
wish any favorite son votes. I want
only the votes of those who have
faith in my candidacy and who sin
i cerely desire to support me. I arp
; not willing to be made a pawn in
any campaign for the nomination
for governor, or any local political
issue.
“As the situation has developed it
seems not unlikely that the dele
gates from New York, Pennsylvania,
Indiana and lowa may figure promi
nently in making the final decision.
It is for the New York delegates and
not for me to decide how best to vise
their great opportunity to give to
New York again its position of com-
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