The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-05
PUTS QU|ETUS
TO MANAGERS
TEMPER BURST
Charge Follows Counting of
twenty-five Contested
Votes for Governor Lowden
Made by Moses.
CIRCUS ACTS FOR G. O,P.
(By Associated Pressl

between General Woods managers
over whether the Republican national
committee has been ''steamrolling" his
delegates has furnished the incident
which was needed to wind up the Re-
publican convention preliminaries
with three-ring finish.
Although Senator Moses. one of the
generals managers, has renounced the
decisions of the committee, which
have seated Lowden delegates over
Wood contestants as a "steam-roller"
procedure, General Wood himself has
| followed it up with a personal state
ment expressing confidence in the fair
ness of Chairman Hays and disclaim-
ing any belief that the committeeman
are permitting their personal prefer
ences a S to candidates to enter into
the decisions which will determine the
| character Of delegates.
The probability that Wood leaders
will carry several delegate contests
to the credentials committee, was an
nounced by General Wood.
Isn't Repudiatine Moses.
Asked whether he considered his
statement last night on the action of
the national committee at yesterdays
sessions as a reputation of the state
| ment of Senator Moses, General Wood
said:
Il am not repudiating Senator
Moses issued his statement and / is
sued mine. They stand as separate
i statements"
In disposing of the remaining Geor-
gia district contests today the national
committee unanimously seated d. c.
| Cole, of Marietta, a Wood delegate,
from the Seventh district, and dis
| missed the contest of a delegate said
to favor Governor Lowden.
Says Moses is Unwarranted
H. B. Mccoy, national committee
man from the Philippines, brought up
| the Moses charges and, declaring he
was Wood support, denounced Sen
ator Moses statement as "absolutely
unwarranted National Committed
man Highland of West Virginia. who
also said he is for Wood, made similar
statements.
Neither Wood nor Colonel Proctor,
his campaign manager. supported the
charges of Moses that the national
committee has used steam roller"
methods in its contest decision, Mr.
Mccoy declared.
w. II. Harris, of Athens, of the Low
den faction, was seated from the
Eighth Georgia district in the absence
of formal claim by a negro contestant,
pledged to Wood.
Old Machine Talk Reappears
Steam roller talk has not appeared
i in the preliminaries since the cele-
brated Taft Roosevelt contest of 1912
and it adds to the noise and confusion
! in which the uninstructed delegate.
so to speak, is having some difficulty
( in locating the hand
There are several elements which
contribute to the support of predic-
tions that it is going to be a regular
old-time convention. Four years ago
on pre-conventiOn Saturday every
thing looked pretty tame. Charles
,, Evans Hughes was as good as nomin-
ated, although II was not generally
known, and the atmosphere was plac-
i'd. Today there are a dozen little
whirling eddys, each loaded with pos
sibilities OF developing into cyclonic
| proportions.
Many steadying influences which
guided the preliminaries of four years
| ago are absent now and good many
Lew elements which make for CON
fusion are present. In the first place.
TIE majority of the delegates are un-
instructed, and. although as is gener-
| ally the case, majority of them are
! anxious to board some band wagon.
there does not appear to be any.
| There are several vehicles ready TO
be rolled out, but the horsepower does
not seem to be mobilized as yet, and
everybody seems TO look to the pos
! sibilities that some of the horses may
be dark.
Haven't Any Guiding Star
| Moreover, the delegates who VIII
have TO contribute the votes to nomfn-
ate the candidate seem TO be having
| little real information so far AS to the
starting point of the procession, al
though they are being invited in half
dozen different directions.
Then, there is the absence Of the
steadying influence of the old-time
! leaders who have hitherto been able
| to guide the destinies of the conven-
tion. The bosses who speak with a
note of authority seem to be absent,
and, although the incoming delegates
are willing to be led, they don't find
any considerable party being con-
Quoted in one direction
About the only thing that every
body seems to be agreed upon is that
no candidate is going to be nominated
on the first ballot, and from the in
formation that leaks out from the
various inner circles of the different
groups it seems that all the managers
are figuring on at least three ballots
to find out where they stand and
make their estimates on the possibili-
ties.
ThF prediction of many seasoned
politicians Is that the convention will
have its opening hurrah, the compli.
mentary votes for the favorite sons,
the ballots to fulfill the instructions
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