The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-12-09
CHICAGO HOLDING LEAD
Windy City Gets Jump for
Convention City; st, Louis
Crowding Close.
POLICIES ARE DISCUSSED
Conferences to Shape Up Is
sues for 1920; Friends of
Candidates Are Active.

WASinNGTON. ber. s. The 1920
political pot was started boiling
merrily today ns the leading figures
OF tho republican party gathered
here for IN" quiironn!al meeting oi
/ the national committee, took Cunn-
sci with one another ON candidates
and issues ur tho coming campaign
Tho OstcnhlhIc purpose OF lh"
committee meeting TX to select a
time and place for next years nh
tioual convention, hut IN their con
stAnty multiplying conferences, tho
committee members and their guests
talked of almost everything clS9 J."
! latiug to 1890. choice OF the conNon
| ton city will be made Wednesday,
| with indications pointing To either
I Chicago or st Louis AMI with cary
June apparently settled on by the
/ leaders Az the date,
Invite Chnirmcn.
In addition to the national com
mitteomcn from every state, the re
! publican state Chairmen all have
| been invited to be here this week and
a largo number OF editors OF repuh
/ lican newspapers are expected To AT
/ tend
other party leaders also have
/ drlftod TO Washington to exchange
/ views and got n share In the prciimi-
nary mancuvcring that really marks
/ the beginning OF the national cam
/ phign.
Many Of the most influential had
not yet arrived tonight, but by ia"
time tina meeting opens formally inc
party managers expect the gathering
TO ba one OF the most cuInplcte or
its Kind In tho history OF republic
anism.
Discussion OF convention city
did not get far today. the leaders hp-
parcnty being too interested IN
other questions to Eiyo II, great at
tentiun. Tho st Louis delegation,
whi n arrived yesterday, was active
during the day however, and the
question Ia expected To take on moro
moro interest tomorrow with the ar
riyal OF the chicago hosters, headed
by Mayor Thompson
Frisco for Chicago.
Chlcngo's chances were helped
during tho day by an announcement
by william IT, Crockcr, the national
committeeman from california, thhl
San Francisco. mentioned as a con
tender for the honor would not
actively seek the convention, but
would throw its influence for the
Illinois city
Chairman VIII II. Hays cXplainci
today that II was proposed Ia GlN'
the gathering htrc as much the air
Iuf "A love feast as possible. and thai
Ito that end some OF the meetings. oi
mo committcc would be open iu non
. ftrfhpr pIl IN Tho -
cess OF the occasion, he said, all ol
the former national Chairmen had
been invited TO be present ana mos
Of them had accepted
In his confereco today Mr.. Hays
laid before some OF the other party
leaders the results OF canvass ht
recently made by letter OF sentiment
for national reforms.
Rcporis from the republican mem
hers of congress and from stat" and
county chIirmcn. he said, pointed II
"AmcricaniHm. economy, better al
miulstration. tower taNcr. solution o'
the labor problem and other sun
iccts ns popular issues u wos not
thought likely however. thii th'
committee would act formally In
outlining any OF the Issues of IN,
campaign
Although most NJ the iockev'rP
In the Interests OF presidential can.
'did1tos is being done quietly. Nlr
tuallN an ~ hos" whose names have
been agguci1to1 with the nomination
have friends busy here In IN" inter
.cet John r. King com mi''remtf
ror Connecticut ard active I'm IN,
movement for Ma Gen Leonard
Wood. arrived today and made plans
20 canvass tho committee FOR HIS can