The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-12
TRADING OF
NIGHT Will
AFFECT VOTE
Blythe Sees Scramble to Get
On Bandwagon, But Says
Conservative Will Win the
Nomination.
OLD GUARD IS ON TOP
BY SAMUEL G. BLYTHE
(Copyrfght 1920. by the Central Pres.
Association.)

Copyright 1920, by the Central Press
Association.)
CHICAGO, June 12-The four bal
lots taken yesterday made no change
in the presidential situation II has
been Lowden against the field for the
past two weeks, and it is Lowden
against the field now
The Hert machine ran flawlessly.
Everything was as scheduled save the
plan to deceive along a little further.
and that plan could have been carried
out and would have been had it not
been for the request of the Califor-
! mans for time to consider. take stock.
and find place to go. The Wood
managers who were saying: I'VE shall
go to bed tired but happy" went to
bed tired but not too overjoyed. The
Wood procession was rather dilatory
| in passing its given point
, A gain of only q votes in four bal.
| lots by the Wood forces, from 2s711
on the first ballot to 3141h on the
fourth ballot is not the maximum they
! predicted for themselves and does not
| equal even the number allotted to
| them by their opponents, which was
324
johnson Men Saw II Coming.
| There was motion to adjourn after
the third ballot, made by California.
who saw the disaster impending for
johnson. This was voted down, al
most three to one on a roll call.
| Then came the fourth ballot and the
| agreement to adjourn. Hert's ma
chlne had the votes to prevent ad-
Journment but it was thought that a
night Of consultation might evolve a
combination that would mean a candi-
date in the early balloting Saturday.
The man who dominated the con-
situations last night is Hert, who has
held together his Mississippi Valley,
middle west and southwestern alliance
around Lowden, from the first. The
conference may be in progress as the
later ballots are taken today. but the
chances are that they will mean the
eventual nomination of Lowden. That
is the probability. The certainty is
that they will mean and make absolute
the nomination of a conservative can
didate and conservative in every re-
quired conservative sense.
Stand Pat Convention.
This is standpat convention and it
has not been and will not be anything
else. In case any untoward things
should happen to Lowden overnight or
in case Wood can collect his predicted
strength and make better progress
that outcome will not be changed be-
cause in the lists are others of whose
conservatism there can be no cavil
and upon whom an acceptible combi-
nation can be made. no doubt.
TWO Things shown by the early ball
loting lead back to the contest made
for delegates. II was shown by the
Washington investigation that the can
didate most literally endowed with the
funds was Wood. OF course. these
funds came from sources that purvey
funds for political purpose. About
a million and quarter dollars was the
iamount sworn to as being Woods en-
} dowment.
Wood Men Began to Travel.
After the pre-convention campaign
opened in earnest in Chicago. with the
delegates coming in, Woods financial
hackers, or some of them, getting bad
reports about the effect on Wood S
candidacy by the exposures and being
told of the unsubstantial nature OF
some of his support, got panicky, and
wrote Wood off as a losing invest
ment. They began to look around for
another place to go.
| Woods campaign had many interior
, difficulties. There were jealousies
and quarrels and men working at cross
purposes and for selfish reasons, and
Wood suffered.
But. in the past day or two these
were composed and the hackers, un-
, able to find any place to go that looked
more than return to life of the Wood
. strength on Wednesday and its virility
at the time the balloting began
There is no question that the or
ganization plan was to nominate
Lowden, and that he was the more
promising of the candidates until the
, Missouri matter came out.
Lowden Was Very Strong.
Lowden had much strength, and
great potentialities in a delegate way
? and looked to be a winner The Mis-
souri, scandal hurt him. But he re-
covered, too, in a way, and his own
. states, the Mississippi Valley and
Southwestern combination. back of
, him; Hert, Kentucky; Keeling, of
, Indiana; Harmon, of Oklahoma; Bab-
Ter, Of Missouri; Vulvane, of Kansas,
and so on. stood pat.
Thus, the first big fight in the con.
vention in addition to being a fight to
nominate a candidate, was also a fight
between two groups of politicians each
maneuvering not only for a candidate,
but which is more important to them
: candidate they can control by virtue
Y of standing back of him and naming
:, him.
e In terms, 1t was fight between the
4 Hitchcock group. in the party in the
/ Hert group-and fierce one.
: That is why the Hert group has al.
3 ways had Hays in reserve, and will
i explain other angles of their strategy
Similarly that will eYplaip Wood MON
: ayers, especially Hitchcock, If Wood