New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
Wood Against
Field, Canvass
Seems to Show
Continued from osge I

else every possible delegation that the
genera might get. A prominent Sena
expressed the idea to-day when he
said:
"lf Wood Ia nominated II will have
to be on the first ballot. The only way
he can win Is to have the delegates
when he goes into the convention. He
will do no gaining on tho convention
floor"
"Old Guard" Believed Shaken
The Wood people. however, welcome
the announcement of new candidates.
The more the mcrrier, they say. Their
which perhaps will be resented in
some quarters, which Is the reason,
perhaps that they are not willing to
stand for quotations.
This theory is that the "Old Guard"
machine does not function anv more,
but Is broken up into group Of little
machines, which, even when combined.
do not approximate the strength which
gave them their tight grip on the party
in the old days.
"Of all the old leaders," one of the
strong Wood men said to-day. In de
Tending this theory. "Penrose Is the
his former strength. Penrose If he
chooses, can be q tremendous figure at
the Republican convention.
Moreover. Crane Is no longer su-
preme IN Massachusetts,. He may be a
little bigger than any one else. but he
cannot inmate any more. His forme r
power is divided.
Ex-senator Hemingway no longer
dominates Indiana. Reed Smoot will
have all he can do to play snfe and
come back TO the Senate, Utah having
absolutely changed from the days when
it was a safely Republican state. And
so it goes all the way down the line
There simply isn't an Old Guard ma
chine any more.
Wood Men Promise Surprise
"Even more important however, is
the fact that various little barons who
have succeeded the old oligarchy can
not control all of the delegates they
round up. They cannot even deliver
for sure the delegations from their
own states. You remember what hap
pened to the delegates lined up for
John Weeks at Chicago last time.
Weeks could not deliver them to an =
body.
80. out of every favorite son dele
cation which they grab off to keep
the delegates away from Wood we will
get a few when the break comes, and
we will have a nucleus to start with
that will surprise the country 1t is a
question not Of the big bosses working
for Wood, but the little fellows-the e
boys who can line up one delegate, or
two or three, and the result will show
after the favorte son ballots are cast,
if indeed we do not nominate Wood on
the first ballot"
Frank H. Hitchcock, who has been
down South supposedly to line up dele
gates for General Wood. was most mys-
terious to-day, intmating to some ques-
tioners that he was not working for
the general at all.
Coolidge Declared Gaining
Frank Fl. Stearns. the Boston mer-
chant arrived here to-day and took
charge of the Coolidge boom. He de-
clared that in Ia king with Republica MS
from other parts of the country he
found considerable sentiment for Gov
ernor Coolidge. especially on the claw
and order" platform.
Mary Garrett day was presented to
the newspaper men by Will II HAYS
chairman Of the Rcpub lean National
Committee, at his afternoon conference
with them today, a ter AIr La &,
made a few formal announcements
auoDt the meeting to- morrow.
1--WE have organ zations to ''ro
kepL blican women in twenty four
states" Mi Hay said. 9TH IS .
states in which women already have