Evening star., 1916-05-14

manding wages never before dreamed
of, and 1T is claimed that the people
will not respond to calamity howls or
a cry of wolf on the tariff question.
1t is said that a demand will be made.
and which will have fhe sympathy of
Senator Lodge and Senator Borah. that
"a red blood American" platform be
adopted; a call for preparedness, an
appeal to patriotism and all that sort of
thing. to overshadow tariff agitation.
Plans of Weeks Managers.
The managers of the John w Weeks
campaign will open headquarters in
Chicago May 25. They expressed them
selves as deeply gratifed yesterday
over the success of a number of their
state managers in the west in securing
election as delegates to the Chicag go
convention. Senator Weeks is himself
a delegate at large from Massachu-
setts: O. E. Weller of Baltimore. who
has his campaign in charge, was elect
ed delegate at large from Maryland
last Tuesday: George H. Moses of New
Hampshire, who has taken an active
part in the Weeks campaign, is a dele
gate at large from the Granite state.
and. together with the western man
ayers who have also been named as
delegates, the Weeks forces claim to be
assured of every facility for effective
floor management in the convention,
which will be such an important factor
this year in the selection of the repub-
1ican nominee.
Discussing the situation as regards
the candidacy of Senator Weeks, Mr..
Weller said last evening:
we expect Senator Weeks to enter
the republican national convention at
Chicago next month with practically
onehalf of the number of delegates
necessary for nomination, and it must
be generally conceded that any candi-
date who can make this formida Bile
showing on the first ballot is a gen
uine presidential possibility.
This support. which will come from
every section OF the country, will be
dependable and loyal and will continue
to vote for Senator Weeks until it has
convinced the convention that our can
didate appeals very strongly to the east
and west alike. and that he is the ma
who can lead the party to victory.
When the convention comes to this
realization Senator Weeks will be NOM
mated"
Sherman Boom in the East.
The boom of Senator Sherman of H.
linois is to invade the east. Two of his
managers. Walter A. RosenfieId OF
Rock Island and Edward J. Rrundape
of Chicago, will visit New York this
week to inform the eastern republica MS
that the Sherman candidacy is a live
wire. Representative William b. Nc
Kinley of Illinois also is working for
Sherman with delegations from the
eastern states.
The past week presented no material
changes in the estimates of campaign
managers over the figures of a week
ago. This week Pennsylvania and
Oregon will choose delegates by
Mt nc
to the outcome in those states.
Burton Managers Cheerful.
In the Burton camp there is express
ed satisfaction over recent results. The
Burton managers confidently claim to
have lately gathered from twenty to
thirty additional votes as the result of
the selection of delegates in the far
western states. Besides this, they as
sert that there has been a distinct
STRENGTHENING of the interest in Sena-
tor Burton's candidacy. Predictions by
Mr.. Burton's supporters that he will
eventually be the nominee are rapidly
increasing.
In this connection they mention a poll
which has just been made public, con-
Quoted by the Lawyer and Banker, a
magazine published in New Orleans, a
locality which may be assumed to be
quite unprejudiced in relation to re-
publican politics. This poll was taken
among members of the legislature,
and bankers, and is said to have been
very comprehensive. The leading can
didates were Burton. 467; Hughes, 3S1 !;
Root 36S, on first choice. On second
choice Burton received 702 votes, more
than double that of any other candi-