The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-02-08
Republican Convention Is
but Four Months in
the Offing.
HARDING IS COMING
Contest May Develop a Re-
semblance of the 1912
Fight.
THE HOOVER BOOM is DYING
Both Parties Seeking to Dom
mate the Next Congress
and Senate.
THE HOOVER BOOM IS DYING
by BAscoM N. rtMMoNs.

WASHINGTON, Feb. -Four
months from tomorrow the republi-
can national convention Will meet In
chicago TO nominate candidates for
ne presidency and the vice presi-
dency' to write h platform and per
form the other odds and ends neces-
saiy TO get a campaign under way.
Ana, at this writing there Is lees
certainly as to whom the candida ie
W!ll be In the opinion of official.
Seml-otficial and pseudo-w wise Wash 70
lhston than there was three months
ago All the rest of the country
may Know who IL going to be nomi-
mated. but Washington does not. IL
may be General Leonard Wood, Il
may be Governor Frank O. Lowden.
II may be Senator Warren o. Hard
ing. II may be General John j. Per-
shIng, or II may be u dark k-compleX-
lQnod horse OF midnight hue.
Just now Washington has an Idea
that the republican national conven-
tion Is going TO be a deudlocked ar
fair between \ General Leonard
Wood and Governor Frank y. Low
den. Admittedly Wood and Lowden n
will go into the convention with
more votes than anyone else.
Both Candidates Are Going Good.
Srhe Lswden campaign has been
humming loudly for the last TWO
weeks. There Is plenty OF gold be-
mind the Illinois candidate and
money attracts attention for awhile
" least. Word has been coming TO
Washington in the last week that
lowdon Is gaining the west. and
Wood IL taking the east.
The Harding campaign is moving
well In Ohio, Indiana. and some OF
81 a A
taneous sentiment Is springing up
for General pershing Ia tho east,
though he is not actively candi-
date. He is very likely to have Ne
oraska and wyoming as n nucleus at
Chicago, with the second choice
place Of Missouri and Texas.
III this idea Is correct and neither
Wood nor Lowden have a majority
on the first Jew ballots In the CON
vention, then neither Of them will be
nominated for the delegate who has
Wood for first choice win never go
to Lowden as second choice. and
the same thing goes for the men who
have Lowden as their first choice.
There Is good ground for the belief
that the 1920 convention OF the re-
publican party is gong 10 be "a
great deal like the 1912 convention
Of the democratic party. and that
many roll calls would sound in the
coliseum before a standard bearer
is chosen. This makes the situation
look good for Senator Harding. Gen
eral PcrshIng, and even gives Gov
ernOr Sproul OF Pennsylvania, Gov
ernor Coolidge of Massachusetts,
Senator johnson OF California auu
others a look-ln
Wilson's Attitude Worries Demos.
As for the democrats. none of the
candidates have started active cam
paigns for delegates due to the alb
sonce of word from the white house.
There are many observers who say
that latencss I'm starting the demo
cratic campaign has really helped
that party. for the republican clndi-
dates In the absence OF any demo-
Gratis to shoot az have been shooting
at one another,
But with the convention at San
Francisco less than five months
away, II is getting almost time that
there was some democratic activity.
The only brave VINO has rea---