New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Kings Leader
COnfers With
General Wood
Politicians Much Interested
in Meeting of Candidate
and Jacob A. Livingston
at the Harvard Club
Proctor Denies Charges
Maliciously False, He Calls
Stories of Expenditure
of Vast Sums of Money

Republican politicians were much
interested yesterday when they learned
that Jacob A. Livingston, leader of the
Kings County Republican organization,
spent half an hour in conference with
General Leonard Wood at the Harvard
Club yesterday. Samuel 5. koenlg,
president of the New York County Re
publican Committee, also was at the
club and saw General Wood, but had
no extended conversation with him.
When Mr.. Livingston was asked whom
he favored for President he said:
"Brooklyn Republicans viii act with
the state organization. We will not
make any decision until we get to Chi
cago."
William Cooper Proctor, chairman of
the Leonard Wood National Campaign
Committee, stamped as maliciously
false the charges that have been made
sums of money were spent in Ohio and
other states in behalf of the Wood
campaign. He said:
General Woods candidacy leads the
field to-day in the contest for the Re
publican nomination and there usually
comes q time in all campaigns when
the leading candidate is attacked for
the purpose of injuring him. That
time has arrived in the present cam
paign. Evidently, in the opinion Of
some of General Woods opponents, the
time has arrived when, for reasons best
known to themselves, they feel that
his candidacy should be attacked and
an attempt made to cunningly dis
credit and injure him, at very criti-
cal time, by charges that are baseless
and have no foundation whatsoever.
"In Ohio there is a primary law
which compels the fling of detailed
statement of campaign expenditures.
This law will be complied with to the
letter, but to-day l wish to say that all
the money spent in the primary cam
Wood was for entirely legitimate pur-
poses Of headquarters, organization
and publicity and the total of all our
expenditures will compare favorably
with the amount it is reported one of
our opponents spent in that state. The
figures given out by our enemies are
50 grotesquely and malciously false
that seemingly they should refute
them selves, and I wish this statement
to finally dispose of these baseess
charges and warn Republicans who are
in injury to the Republican party, no
matter who may be the nominee"
Claim 205 Delegates
COlonel 1hOmaS w. Miller, one of
General Woods Eastern managers, r9-
ceived word from Pueblo, Col, yester-
day that the Republican state conven-
tion held there Friday elected four
delegates large, among whom are
Governor O. H. Shoup, Of Colorado, one
OF the vice-chairmen of the Leonard
Wood campaign committee, and United
States Senator l.. c. Phipps. Senator
Hahipps is for Harding, but the other
three legates-at- large are out and
out Wood men: The eight other dele
gates elected from the four Congress
sional districts are for Wood. which
gives him eleven out of the twelve dele
gates from this state.
The Wood managers last night in a
statement claimed 2O5 pledged dele
gates for General Wood, this figure
exceeding but three the number given
in The Tribune's tabulation to-day.
General Wood yesterday forenoon
assisted in the reinterment ceremony
at the grave of John McCullagh, in
Woodlawn Cemetery, later receiving
many callers at the Harvard Club.
Among those who conferred with him
was Colonel Proctor. The general will
spend Sunday in town and depart for
the West tomorrow.
The local Eastern Wood headouar-
ters virtually will cease business on
Saturday next and dispose of desks,
chairs, etc, with which the offices on
the second floor of the Imperial Hotel
are equipped. One or two offices will
be kept open till May %. After next
week the Wood campaign interests will
be managed from the Chicago head
quarters.