Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-25
WOOD FAVORS
US. SOFT VOICE
AND BIG STICK
Letter States International as
Well as Domestic Cam
paign Platform.
ELEVEN POLICIES GIVEN

Speak softly but carry a big stick
is the attitude of Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood toward international policies, ac-
cording to an announcement made today
through a letter written by the general
to a friend
The platform on which Gen. Wood pro
poses TO conduct his administration
should he be successful in his campaign
contains eleven points, including:
Spreading the war burden over a
longer period of years.
Return of the railroads to private
ownership under government super
vision.
A strong international policy and
the use of the "big stick in the pro-
lection of American trade.
a small but excellent army and
ever ready navy.
well equipped diplomatic and
consular service.
square deal to capital and a
square deal to labor.
A protective tariff.
A vigorous program of development
of commerce.
A budget system.
/ More respect for law and order and
property rights.
The functioning of each government
tai department. strictly within it's
constitutional limits.
A fight between Gen. Wood and Senator
Hiram Johnson in their rivalry to be-
come successors to Theodore Roosevelt
is in progress, according to dispatches
from Washington.
ROOSEVELT PRAISE
FOR WOODS RIVAL.
The johnson campaign managers have
made public a letter written by Col.
Roosevelt in 1916 in which he says:
Hiram Johnson, of all public men in
this country, is the one with whom l
find myself in most complete sympathy.
You are perfectly safe in following his
lead"
Gen. Woods supporters, however, were
ready to dispute this claim. In the first
place, they pointed out, the letter is four
years old and conditions have changed
greatly since it was written. Second,
Roosevelt said that of the men in public
life Johnson was the one with whom he
was in closest sympathy. Wood was not
I'm public life, but that did not mean that
he and Roosevelt were not in close sym
pathy, the Wood supporters contend.
According to Washington dispatches,
Johnson has canvassed the senate and
has decided that the treaty will be rati-
fed. It is said, therefore. that he will
proceed with 4 campaign advocating the
withdrawal of the United States from
the league of nations.
Zell c. Swain, Indiana manager for
Senator Johnson, Las wired Senator
Johnson asking him to visit indianapolis
for conference with his state workers.
he fho fO
over in indianapolis on his return trip
from a campaign tour of North Dakota
and South Dakota which started today.
SPEAKING TOUR
TO BE ARRA<-GED.
The object of the conference. Mr.. Swain
said, would be to arrange for the speak
ing tour Of Indiana in April in which
Senator William L. Borah Will accom-
any the Californian into this state to
give momentum TO the Johnson move
ments
It is probable that Indiana women will
not be permitted to vote in the presi-
Dental primaries. Charles o. Roemler
and VIII H Thompson have informed
Frederick E. Schotemeier. secretary OF
the republican state committee, that they
believe that the law granting women the
right to vote for presidential electors
next November does not confer the power
to express a choice IN the prima ries
The opinion is in accordance with re
cent opinion expressed by w. W. Spen-
GER, a democratic member of the state
board of election commissioners.
The attorneys also agreed that women
can not be delegates to the state conven-
tions under the Indiana law, but that
they can be delegates to the national con-
vention as the conventions are the Judge
Of their own membership.
1t was the opinion of the attorneys
that the legislature can confer on women
the power to vote at presidential pri-
maries and it was thought probable that
this subject would be taken up If a
special session of the legislature is
called~hv Gov Gnndrich