The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-18
WOOD men ACTIVE.
Plenty of Support Behind Gen.
- eraI for President.
Democrats To Fight Him on
Gary Anti-LabOr Fact.
STATES HAVE FAVORITE SONS
But Governor LOwden of ILL.,
nos Seems Strongest.
Adm -nistratiOn Is Looking To-
ward the Labor Vote. =,
STATES HAVE FAVORITE SONS
BY SAN FARRELL.

chicago, Oct. 1S.-The ovation re-
Gently rendered Governor Lowden. of
Illinois, by congress when he went to
Washington to explain the famous
budget system Of his state. is indi-
cative of his growing strength as a
Republican presidential possibility. So
strong is the Lowden sentiment in Illi-
nous that the movement to obtain
e ~ God delegates died a natural death.
The managers of the Wood campaign,
among them Chauncey Dewey, of Kan
sas have made formal statement
that no effort will be made to obtain
delegates for the general in Lowden's
own state.
The economic plan of the budget
system, as outlined in Washington by
Governor Lowden, has proven a great
success in cutting down the govern
mental expense in this state. The ap-
L~sarace of Mr.. Lowden on the floors
OF congress was an immediate signal
Tor an OutburSt of cheering, not only
in the galleries. but among the states
men and near-statesmen of congress-
The significance of this can hardly be
over estimated.
The Lowden campaign will be for
nally launched this month at the
Hamilton club, Chicago, and the gov
ernor's announcement of his candi-
dacy is expected to be made at that
time. or within the next few weeks at
the most. 1t is probable that he will
be the first active candidate in the
Wood Supporters Busy.
The adherents of Maj Gen Leonard
Wood are also busy, having estab-
lished informal headquarters at the
Congress hotel. If the general be-
comes candidate, which now ap-
pears to be quite likely, he will prob
ably resign from the army it is said.
1t has been pointed out, however that
if he wins the nomination. the Demo-
Gratis viii make political capital of the
generals activity in suppressing riot
ing during the steel strike at Gary, !
Ind, in the hope that this will attract
labor votes to the standard of Mr.. VIII |
son, or whoever is the Democratic
nominee
A Chicago man recently returned |
from a visit to several eastern cities, |
where he peered into the political sit |
uatiOn in an effort to sound the depth
of the Lowden sentiment which, he de- |
clares. is crysta lliZing everywhere. |
The outlook, he says, is most encour- |
ag.ng for the Illinois executive but he |
sounds a warning note to the Repub- /
! can national committee to beware of |
tie tactics of their ancient and hon
bic fOemen at the helm of the
/ eYnOcTatic organization.
Hhe Democrats are going to make
Il strong bid for the labor and farmer
We" he said recently in discussing
C situation They will attempt to
SOW that capitalists are backing the |
G. o. Z. while the Democrats are the |
friends and sympathizers of hoi
pollOi and the man who tilIs the soil
If General Wood is nominated. they
viii point out that his activities al
Gary hurt the chances of the steel /
strikers. neglecting to mention the /
fact that the federal troops were sent
there to rOut out Bolshevists and Reds
and to suppress bloOdshed."
The election will not be held until !
a year from now, but the political
pot is bubbling merrily. A crimp is
put in the Pacific coast chances of |
senator Hiram Johnson due to the in
sistence of northwestern Republicans
in backing Senator Miles PoindeXter,
of Washington for the nomination If
Senator BOrah, friend and political |
ally of johnson, throws his hat on
the mat. he will probably garner dele
gates from few of the Rocky Noun
tain states. which otherwise would be
favorable to Johnson. Some leaders
predict that the gentleman from Idaho
and the gentleman from San Francisco
viii pool their interests and that
Hiram will be the lad to make the
race. with ripe plum to be given to
William in case the Californian noses
out on the final lap.
The anti-Bolshevist activity of ex
Mayor ole Hanson, of Seattle, places
him before the public as a likely can
didate. Hanson is now lecturing a la
Bryan, touring the country and, I'M
ostentatiously. stirring up a wee bit
Harding is making a little Roadway
in the land of the Reds-Ctncinnati-
but is not creating much impression in
any other locality. West Virginia Re
pubHcans want to see Ntheir favorite
son. Senator Sutherland. in the White
House, but then West Virginia doesn't
count much politically, and the sena-
tors chances are indeed limited.
But no state is complete without a
favorite son. Kansas, for instance, |
has two. according to a straw vote
conducted by Leslie's Weekly, and if
Jay House were still a resident of To-
peka his loyal supporters by this time
would be boosting him.
" Nearly every governor and United
States senator has some backing for
president, Among the war heroes,
General PershinG and Sergeant York
might muster a few votes. altho 1t
does not necessarily mean that a man
who could command $500, 900 soldiers
or a church elder capable of making
monkeys-and dead ones at that-out
of a bochc machine gun battalion
would be able to handle the helm of
the ship of state serenely.
As a matter of fact. the American
public is far more interested in the
price of eggs. shoes and soda foun-
tain drinks than it in the 1920 cam
paiGn. which is really too far off for
logical Ruess-worlS. 1t is possible that
a man named Jones or Snodgrass or
Larson or Brown may be the Pat
Moran of the 1920 presidential fracas.
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