Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-12
Conferences Were Engaged
In Last Night at Chicago
for the Purpose of Dis
cuSsing the Situation.
NEITHER LOWDEN NOR
WOOD WILL BE NAMED
Harding, Knox, Hughes, and
Coolidge Are Said to Be
Regarded BY Conferees
AS Being Proper Timber.
inv MORNING JouRNA, ars~tsL Ia
BULLETIN.


this morning after conference
with state leaders, Frank II. Hitch
cock, field marshal of the Wood
forCVS. said:
"Thc Wood delegates will stick
On the first ballot today VIC will
have decided gain. am greatly
encouraged. have been informed
about the conference; of leaders
opposed to wood and that thcy
have been trying to center upon Il
dark horse candidate"
CHICAGO, June I2.-At mid
night the maneuvering and confer
ring among the convention leaders
were at their highest, and centered
at a conference at one of the
down town hotels where Senator
Lodge, Senator Smoot, Senator
Watson. former Senator w. Mur-
ray Crane, Senator Borah and 9TH
ers were present,
Other conferences were going on
at ether hotels apd various clu hs
The Wood headquarters expressed
satisfaction with the situation,
Lowden headquarters was predict
ing sufficient accessions today
to start the governor toward the
necessary majority ana il was
known that compromise offers Of
various sorts were being carried
to johnson headquarters.
As the conferences were break
ing up after midnight, IT was plain
that many felt that neither LOwden
nor Wood would be the nominee
and that consideration Of the dark
horse list had been the chief sub
iect of discussion. Opinion was too
divided for an agreement and few
were confident of being able to
center upon any one before to-
day. Four or five men, said TO
include Harding, Knox, Hughes,
and Coolidge were said to be re-
garded by most of the conferees as
qualified.
Counting Their Chickens.
While the Pennsylvania delega-
ton was cauCusing and agreeing to
stand by Governor Sproul as long
as they feel he has a chance of be-
ing nominated, the Lowden forces
were counting on gains from that
quarter on a breakup which they
were expecting today and both the
Lowden and Wood forces were
estimating possible gains from New
York. Both the Wood and Low
den forces had their eyes turned
toward the Michigan block, which
has been standing solidly for john
son. LOwden headquarters was
also counting on a gain from Wis
consin II the twenty-five la Fol
lette votes should break up.
Both Lowden and Wood forces
were claiming gains from a break
they predicted in the Michigan
block
Conferences were continually GO
ing on at Wood headquarters, and
also at Governor Lowden's rooms
at his hotel.
A. T. Hert. national committee
man from Kentucky. who cast the
Kentucky vote solid for Lowden on
all but the first ballot. predicted
Lowden would be nominated today.
zone thing seem assured beyond
doubt" said he. ut will either be
Lowden or a dark horse"
Fred tpham, national treasurer,
and another Lowden leader. said;
"The race will be settled soon.
New York and Pennsylvania can
swing the nomination wherever
they want 1t to GO"
OyCrturcs to johnson.
1t was said overtures from the
Wood forces were being carried to
the Johnson camp with the argu-
ment that the johnson forces were
the natural allies of the Wood
group to prevent the nomination of
governor Lowden.
Floor Leader Knox of the Wood
forces was understood to be in ne
gotiatiOn with some of the Johnson
delegates from the northwest.
Talk of Senator Knox as a COM
promise arose again coincident
with the series of conferences and
carried with 1t the argument that
he would have the support of Sem
ltor johnson.
Governor Coolidge's name also
was associated with the Knox talk.
Senator Poindexter. himself a
said he did not believe
Wood or Lowden could poll 400
votes.
. inevitably the delegates seeing
this situation" he added, will, in |
The effort to make a nomination, |
go to other candidates, and it is
possible, and indeed probable, that |
will be found Great
ng new alignments which will in !
urn lead to new deadlocks, and i'm |
my opinion it will be some time |
before a nomination is reached.
Il do not think the winner can
30 named now, but he soon will be
leyeloped,'