Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-22
CREDIT FOR VICTORY
Of HARDING GIVEN
To PARTY LEADERS
State Of Washington Now
Appears to Be in Repub--
Iican Column, Despite
Friendship for Wood
BIZ DAVID LAWRENCE

n Ga SANAS A&2 W Ss&6&N S6
fcopyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
TACOMA. Wash, June 21.-Poor
Warren Harding. Aside from the
usual campaign yarns to which a
nominee is compelled to
listen. he must now submit for the
best Of his life to inside stories ga
lore of how he was nominated at
chicago.
Even to this distance, strange tales
lave been waited telling vividly the
ray the presidential nomination was
Bestowed on the Ohio senator. Every
Body is given credit for having had
he lucky thought sometime between
nidnight and the sunrise hours of
une IL, which was the day on which
he Republican convention chose its
candidates.
For seven years Woodrow Wilson
az been told how he was nominated
the famous Baltimore convention
n 1912. And it is recorded to this
ley in the unwritten archives of the
Democratic party that Roger Sulli-
an turned the trick; that Bryan did
that Colonel Harvey did it; that
William McCombs did it; that Mitch
II Palmer did it. But the fact is no
ne man nominated Wilson and no
ne man nominated Harding.
No single boss nor leader control
I'D the Republican national conven-
ion at Chicago. A group of men
Influenced it. Somebody has to do
hat with an unwieldly body of dele
ates. But the convention was a
pntest between two sets of men
owden and Wood managers-who
ried to manipulate the delegations
nd there brought en- the deadlock
fhich yielded Harding the nominal
lon.
Colonel Harvey Praised
But to take up seriatim the men
no are being credited with having
ron the nomination for Harding
olonel Harvey, editor extraordinary,
given generous praise for his part.
is tru the conference was held in
is room but in the same suite was
homas W. Lamont, of Pierpont Nor
an & Co., and it is a fact that neither
olonel Harvey nor Mr.. Lamont con-
oiled any delegates at Chicago; but
ere merely interested onlookers; if
deed they were able now and then
make suggestion to their numer-
lg friends who did control dele
ktes.
Mr.. Lamont by the way, is a per-
nal friend of President Wilson and
me back on the steamer George
ashington with him from the Paris
ace conference. Mr.. Lamont serv-
on the financial section of the
merican peace mission and has been
China and Japan helping to re-
affiliate the finances of the far
st, so his dropping in at the Chi
go convention were merely Incl
Fntal.
And he probably had no desire to
fluence the Republican convention
ZEN when he did find commodious
larters with Colonel Hacrey at a
emptuous Chicago hosiery.
Now Colonel Harvey has been a
Pwer in Republican councils but to
Pminate him Republican boss is 6
ttle exaggerated. The Repub-
Fan convention at Chicago was
Pssed or Embossed, according as
10 regards the half dozen or more
aders who control the big delega-
ons in any convention, be it Re
blican or Democrats. Such a group
IL always exist so long as Penn.
lvania has seventy-six votes, New
Prk lightweight and so on. Numeri-
lly the big delegations are leaders
ID they control nominations wher
situation becomes deadlocked.
Where Credit Goes
Credit for the nomination of Hard
g must repose on these men:
Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania
I'd his representative at Chicago
bhn T. King, of Connecticut
aries B. Warren, national commit
oman from Michigan; Senator
ellsworth, of New York; Nicholas
urray Butler, and State Senate
lley, of New York; Senator jim
atson, of Indiana; Senator Lodge
Massachusetts,, and former Senator
urray Crane, of the same state
Tobias Hert, of Kentucky.
There are others-some 700 dele
tes-who played their part affirm
lively, too, but there is another list
imposed of Senator Hiram johnson
d Senator Borah, who put the vet
Wood and Lowden by their fus
er campaign expenditures. Finally
Senator Poindexter, of Washing
a; Governor Sproul, of Pennsyl
mia: Frank Willis and Myron Her
*, OF Ohio, and Governor Allen
Kansas-all Of whom were per
AIDED to hold their delegations in
ct so that Leonard Wood woul'
t get their votes in a pinch-t
ese men must some credit be give
creating the situation that CAV
Eth to the Harding candidacy.
Newspa pers will contend that tn
Invention was bossed and Embossed
eaders there were and negotiation
lenty. There always are in cor
ntions. Any such gathering with
steering committee would new
nominate anybody. But erroneou
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