The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-14
Republicans Go on Assumption
McAdoo Is Democrats Choice.
Country To Be Flooded Will
Harding Posters at Once.
DEMOCRATS ARE UNCERTAIN
Fight Between Son-in-Law and
Cox Is Expected.
Preparations for Frisco Con-
clave Already Under Way.
BY HAROLD D. JACOBS.

Chicago. June IA. Republican
party leaders today were preparing to
get the Harding Coolidge campaign
under way without delay and to make
II lively from the start They are
planning their campaign on the as
sumption that William G. McAdoo
will be nominated by the Democrats at
their national convention opening in
San Francisco June 28.
Their first step will be to flood the
country with pictures of Harding and
Coolidge Five million pictures have
been ordered and will be sent into
every state within a week
Arrange for Notification.
A conference will be held between
Harding and Senator Lodge, chairman
OF the committee. to notify the nomi-
nee to arrange the time and place OF
notification. Harding favors notifica-
tion in his home town, Marion, ONO.
Similar arrangements will be made by
william Allen White of Kansas for
notification of Governor Coolidge.
An executive committee to have
charge of the campaign also is to be
named after a conference between
Harding and n special committee
named to arrange with him for details
of the campaign This committee is
headed by Charles n. Hilles of New
York Harding and VIII Hays, chair
man Of the national committee, also
are scheduled to confer.
Are Cleaning Up Drive.
HAYS shortly will call the national
committee together to get to work on
the revision of the basis of representa-
.tion recommended by the convention.
A subcommittee probably will he
aDpointed TO make recommendations
for rules for representation on the ba-
sis af the actual Republican vote.
Officers of the convention today
We're cleaning up odds and ends fol-
lowing the convention.
Democrats Arc Uncertain.
Prominent Democrats here en- route
to the Pacific coast declared the situ-
alton in their party had not crystal
lized sufficiently to permit even a
guess as to the probable nominee.
Attitude of the Republicans. In
picking the nominee for Democrats
was illustrated in the speech OF
Charles s. Wheeler. San Francisco at
torney. who nominated Senator Hiram
Johnson last week. He bitterly at
tackled the Democratic administration
and asked If the Republican party, by
refusing to nominate a sure winner
wished to continue the Wilson dy-
nasty" by placing the crown prince"
in the White House.
MclAdoo Is Active.
AIcAdoO. who has refused to permit
an open campaign in his behalf and
cannily removed himself from active
participation in the councils of his
party. is expecting to spend the per-
iod of the Democratic convention in
New York City.
Republicans have even gone so far
as to assume that James NJ. Cox of
Ohio would be the Democratic choice
for vice president.
Cox His Biggest Rival.
Cox. however. is probably McAdoo's
most formidable rival for the presi-
dental nomination. He has more in
struc;ed delegates and is known to
have the backing of powerful party
leaders
Other names prominently mentioned
in connection with the Democratic
nomination were Vice President
Thomas r. Marshall; Attorney Gen
eral Palmer; Governor Edwards OF
New Jersey; Secretary of Agriculture
Meredith; Senator Hitchcock of Ne
braska. Homer Cummings. and Secre-
tary of War Baker