Evening star., 1920-06-10
ny G.. GOULD LINCOLN.

CHICAGO, June 10.-Candidates die
in one edition of the daily newspa-
pers here and are resurrected in the
next. But there is one candidate who,
after much buffeting. seems assured of a
good start when the balloting begins
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood.
A vast amount of inside politics has
been going on here during the last
ten days. beginning with the meet
ings of the republican national COM
mittee.
The Lowdenites were going strong
in Chicago, anyway-when the COM
mittee got together. The governor
had many strong supporters IN the
committee. Many contested delegate
cases from the south were due to
come to the committee for decision.
Lowden and Johnson men were there
to kill off the Wood delegates where
it was possible.
Strategy Master on Field.
Frank Hitchcock, master of STRAIT
egy, was on the field to look after the
Wood interests. But in majority OF
the cases the contests went against
Wood. He was credited with gettirg G
only thirty-four of the contested
seats to eighty-eight for Gov. Low
den and seven for Johnson.
What happened after the national
committee had given the 'Lowden
people the best of the decision? Just
what would have happened if the
Wood people had triumphed. There
was a howl about a steam roller.
Senator Moses of New Hampshire put
it out 1t was promptly denied that
the charge was made by Gen. Wood
or any of the other Wood leaders.
But the story had long start on the
denial 1t got across to the public
and to the delegates.
Then when the Wood people got
into the saddle after the election Of
the committee on credentials the con-
tests were heard all over again. The
voting was closer, but there were only
four changes. two for the benefit of
Lowden in Kansas and two for Wood,
one in Georgia and the other in Ten
nessee. Again there was no rough
stuff on the part of the Wood peo-
pie. Hitchcock was in the back
ground.
The joke of it all is that these
southern delegates are the best little
bandwagonerS in the whole outfit.
If they see that things are going
against Gov. Lowden, it is not apt to
take them long to make hop. When
the hopping begins it is likely that
Mr.. Hitchcock will be around to di-
rect 1t.
Gen. Harries' Opinion.
Gen. George H. Harries, formerly
of Washington. has been breathing in
the Wood-in- the-a air stuff. He be-
lieves, he says, that the matter is
crystallizing fast and that Wood has
the best of the running. Z
wood can be elected If he is non,E
mated. All talk to the contrary is
ridiculous" said the general. He
would make a strong candidate and
a strong President. 1t must be re-
membered that he undertook to make
a countrywide campaign. when you
talk of the campaign expenditures
made for him. 1t costs lot of money
to send a single document around the
whole country to the voters-some-
thing like sS0O,0OO. They have Moth
ing on Gen. Wood"
Some people here are wondering If
several of the candidates who have been
more or less prominently mentioned will
ever start, among them Harding, Hoover
and Sproul, the last named believed to
be a strong dark horse. The tail end
of the list is difficult place. Apropos
Of the situation of these candidates
"Jim" Faulkner. veteran correspondent
of the Cincinnati Inquirer. told the fol-
lowing story:
"Zeno was the name of a strong man
travelling with circus that went broke
The manager told all the hands that
they would be paid off and laid off until