Connecticut western news., 1920-03-25
LEONARD WOOD.

months ago, the "Wood for President" movement has spread throughout the country and there is a nationwide de- mand for him as the next occupant of the White House to pilot the country through the trying days of readjust- ment which lie ahead.
 General Woods campaign managers are daily in receipt of the most grati- flying reports from the thirty-five or more states in which there are flourish ing and constantly increasing Leonard Wood Leagues. The movement is spreading so rapidly that General Woods managers are working night and day to keep up with 1t Not only are the states in which there are Wood organizations bubbling with enthusi- asm over his prospective nomination, but from the native states of favorits sons, who are opposing General Wood, there continue to come the strongest and most sincere assurances that he is the popular choice of a majority of the voters. All the indications are that the people throughout the nation intend communicating him as their leader in the White House because of his re- markable record as an executive, his marvellous powers as an administrator, abundantly shown in Cuba, the Philip pines and during the world war, and because of his frank and fearless stand on the paramount issues of the day.
 Wood Against Field.
 "It is a case of Wood against the field,". said Congressman Norman J. Gould, eastern manager of General Woods campaign. General Wood has a com. manding lead because of the great amount of personal, volunteer work done by his friends and admirers be- fore the campaign committee came into existence. The support General Wood is receiving from voters all over the country clearly indicates that they will instruct their delegates to vote for him In the convention and that the number of delegates so instructed will be sufficient to give General Wood the nomination. There will be 9S4 votes In the convention. General Wood will have 300 pledged delegates when the convention opens, and will need only 183 more to get the nomination."
 Following General Woods victory in New Hampshire, the first state in the Union to hold primary for the selec- tion of delegates, Congressman W. W. Lufkin, who is directing Woods cam paign in Massachusetts, said a careful canvass of New England showed prac- tically every state in that section would support the general by sending dele gates to the convention pledged to his nomination. Governor Miliken of Maine personally assured General Wood in Boston, recently, that that state was solidly for him.
 Mir. Hitchcock's af1iliating himself actively with the Wood campaign has brought strong support from the South for the general. Mir. Hitchcock has a host of friends and admirers in the South and they have been writing him many letters of congratulation on join ing Wood and assuring him that the general will have many, if not all, of the Southern delegations in the con- vention with him.
 Announcement is made by the Wood managers that they will put up an ac- tive fight for delegates in Ohio against Senator Harding and in Illinois against Governor Lowden. William Cooper Procter, national campaign manager for General Wood, has issued an un- qualified denial that either General Wood or anyone connected with his will attempt to unseat Will Hays as chairman of the Republican National Committee after the national This statement is official and is made in reply to bGseless stories circulated by General Woods oppo- nents for the obvious purpose of stir ring up trouble between the chairman of the Republican National Committee and General Wood. .....