The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-06-06

chairman himself ns tho solution
This grows out OF various inoidents'
In chief | think being the unusually
close friendship existing between
Hays and Committeeman Hart OF
Kentucky, Warren OF Michigan and
keallng Of Indiana, who has sat
through the contests under the
Hemingway proxy. The trio consu-
ttuing the steam roller trinity.
II | have an opinion worth ro-
cordlng, or II IL III worth anything
~ ! do record n. II IL that General
Woods one best bet In In Senator
johnson showing as possiblo win
ner early In the voting. There IL
opposition TO wood for the same
reason that there is opposition TO
johnson. And there is opposition
to Wood that will go any lengths
and to any man to beat him. In
this respect wood indeed occupying
the ground once held by the lato
Colonel Roosevelt.
Prefer wood to johnson
But tho belief is almost unlvcr-
sal that the opposition to wood on
general grounds viii give way TO
support him for tho moment John.
son appears as tho alternative. And
for reasons that need not bo oluci-
Wood men are persisting In their
expressions Of confidence. And le,
Il be recorded that they are actually
mighty confident and happy looking
body OF men. That the coalition iH
weak In being purely negative, and
In not having "a candidate To nomi-
nate insiead OF merely candidate"
TO date. cannot be gainsaid But iU
lbrazennesa In rcopenins Old sores
land arouslng passions long dormant
by the practice OF methods which
the experiences Of 1912 supposedly
put into the discard forever exposes
IL to the danger of driving the
Wood and johnson forces into "a
coalition is n possibility that must
be given some consideration by any
one seeking TO correctly appraiso
tho existing situation.
Forgetting Cnution.
am not ovcrstating tho situation
| that exists at the close OF the week
when | say there IL "A general tenn
per here now very similar TO that
which existed two days before tho
convention OF 1919 convened. The
caution that delegates and partisa ms
have been using to season their en-
!dorsements OF favorito candidates
has disappeared and threats that
spring from passionate attachments
and aroused suspicion are taking
their place. Either n president viii
be nominated noxt week or "a trag-
ody enacted
The Moses statement administer
ing IA stinRing rahuke 10 tho com
mitteo methods aud carrying n veil
ed warning, sobercd some. shocked
others, and stung the coalition lead
ers to tho quick. Tho inferonttal
classification OF Chairman Hays with
the coalition aroused positive en-
thusiasfa In aoins quarters, Tor IL has
been common talk throughout the
week that he was operating with the
coalition under cover; and the candi-
dates such action has Injured well
coined anything that placed him
boldly with the coalition or that
forced him to make n statement OF
denial.
The Senator's closing paragraph
wherein hs stated that the steam
roller tactics OF the national com
mittee were forcing the Wood and
johnson forces together was tho
most surprislng thing about It.
This is what none OF the oppon.
ents OF Wood have wanted or
thought possible. To make II Gm-
possible for Wood and johnson ever
to throw their forces together was
tho first point the old guard in
tended 10 achieve when II made
common cause with Johnson last
winter to head Wood.
Clears Atmosphere
And that statement did clear tho
atmosphere and caused the conli-
| tion TO hesitate IL not back track.
For the first case passed on by the
committee Saturday morning re-
suited In a verdict for tho Wood
delegates. and was followed by con-
siderable spoechmaking In the COM
mittee, and Chairman Hays was
satisfactorily indorsed
Recurring for moment To tho
|coalition's Lowden boom, which the
senatorial investigation appeared
to have given n quietus, | am per-
mitted to quote an important nom
ber of tht national committee with