The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-11
RepublicansAlso Sho1O Indications Of Split
Intense Feeling Being Aroused Among Various Aspirants For President-Memorial Exercises for Congress-
 man Burnett To Be Held Jan 25
By HUGH ". ROBERTS

that the republican party will win The scramble for the presidency on the part of candidates, and those who will be financially benefited through the success of their respective candidates, is already so fierce that friendly relations cannot be maintained. While this is true, Chair man Cummings points out the fact that the situation is already, or naturally, such that there cannot be other than lack of harmony in republican circles.
 In this fashion, democrats dope out the situation:
 Thsre are fo3r republicans whose can didaciss must be taken seriously. They are Senator Harding of Ohio, Senator Johnson of California, General Wood ot the United States army and Governor Lowdcn of Illinois. Other candidates. it is insisted, may 5e safely passed lip.
 Senator Harding, in the yee of the pro- gressive element ot the republican party, is a conservative and therefore q reac- tionary. He wGs permanent chairman cf the last republican convention, and was hand-n-hand with the bosses who nominated Judge Hughes while. just a block or more up Michigan avenue, q hall Of yelling, singing progressives were demanding Theodore Roosevelt, and im- plying repudiation of any man the 'ci5 timers might put up. The progressivcs are ~dtQ lO Dt Ol lilC' of Harding as a man, but still resenttui of his utilization with the Penroses and Murray Cranes whom they think reac- tionary and therefore deadly.
 And if Harding is repudiated in conVeh- tion, should the republicans nomfnaee Hiram Johnson? Johnson is progres- sive who desires to wear the RooseVcie boots irrespective of how much too iarge they might be for his pedal extremltles' He is said to be so firmly opposed to the conservative element of the party that unless the party goes with him he VIII go alone. Already. the conservative eie- ment views him askance. In the flrst place, that clement has not forgotteh that four years ago he carried Californisi for the Senate bv majority approAi- matelv soo.ooo, and yet permitted Wooa- roy Wilson to carry the state by ma ioritv of seevral thousand The repuo- Iicans cannot be convinced that Jonhso'l was nc. either knowingly negligent O. party opportunities. or that direcug " indirectly. he permitted the kniilng or the orranization ard it's presidential nomlleee And again Johnson now defies the repuo- lican organization by insisting that the issue of the campa ign be mde the League of Nations. Will H. Hays. chairman oi tbe republican executive committee mas very good reason. it is indicated, to oe- sire some othe--any Other-lSSue
 With what irrepressible enthusiasm would the Penroaes and the Cranes rally to Johnson were he to win the nom'na- tion of the rarty? And with what paeon of delight would the progressive wiiis herald the approach of Harding bearing the standard of the old organization?
 But suppose, continue the democrats inc republicans should name Lowden, ad- mittedlv a very able man? Lowden mas already bruised the heel of Senator Borah by demanding the ratification ol the peace treaty with the League or Ma tions in amended form. And again, ne belongs to the conservative school. He nevsr threw his hat into the air at tAe mere mention of the name "Roosevei-, and IS. therefore, persona non grae. with the innurncTable horde which was wont to do that very thing. But to cay the climax, Isovfien, as "a member of l.'e republican national committee in lslz voted to seat Tat deelgates and repud!ate Roosevelt delegates. So he has grievocsiy sinned. Were the republicans to name him. why the old Roosevelt following would froth at the mouth to reward nm for an action which they insist split me republican party and caused the election of Woodrow Wilson.
 And there is General Wood. He is a soldier of the aggressive Roosevelt type. He would appeal TO the great proportion