New-York tribune., 1920-02-28
Delegate Fight
Grows Hotter
In Both Parties
Wood and Harding Forces
Lock Horns i'm Bitter
Fight in Ohio; Indiana
Claimed for the General
Marshall Boom in Florida
Administration Men Consid.
erably Disturbed by the
Vice-President's Strength
By Carter Field

FROM 1he Trtbunos Washington, Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb 27.-Harmon,
vanished from the Republican Presi
Dental campaign to-day with the re-
ceipt Of reports from Ohio and Illinois
while in the Democratic camp there is
dismay among the Democrats because
of news from all over the South indi.
eating the popularity of Vice-President
Marshall.
incidentally, politicians of both par.
ties were little Jared by the conf
dent statement by James A. Dahlman
famous as the cowboy Mayor" Of
Omaha, that General Pershing would
win the Nebraska primaries in a walk
defeating Hiram Johnson and General
Leonard Wood. Dahlman is a Demo
crat and lieutenant of Senator Gill
bert M. Hitchcock, candidate for Demo
cratic Endorsement for President in
Nebraska, so he claims to be a disinter-
ested and impartial witness, with more
or less claim to being in the expert
class SO far as politics is concerned.
Friends of Senator Warren G. Hard
ing were distressed over the news from
the Buckeye State, and few went so
far as to admit that Mr. Harding's
chances Of landing the Presidential
nomination had dropped very nearly to
zero. Up In Cleveland two very strong
men, Judge w. L. Day and w. F. Eirick,
have come out as Wood delegates while
W. A. Boyd has come out for delegate-
at-large, pledging himself to Wood.
Bitter Fight in Ohio
Down in the Columbus district Harry
M. DauCAerty, Hardings manager, re-
fused to accept Ed C. Turner, twice
Attorney General of the state, as a
Harding delegate, with the result that
Turner has come out as a Wood dele
gate. Turner, with Judge E. B. Kin
kead, claimed Endorsement of the
FRANKLIN County organization, but both
were sidetracked by the Harding man
aetmcnt. In Cincinnati the Harding
delegates are all committed to Wool
as second choice anyhow, so no fac
llona' fighting has developed there.
NO matter who wins the Presidcn-
tial preferential primary, the delegates
elected vote for the men they are corr
mltteG to in their petitions, so tha.
there is grave danger, to say the Ieas4
that Harding will not now have solid
ONO delegation back Of him at .he
Chicago convention.
But these are not all the Harding troub-
les in Ohio, nor the Republican troub
les. for that matter. So bitter has
the fighting become that country
editor in the state hes raked up cdi-
;orials printed in Senator Hard;nc.s
newspaper during the *,i2 fight in
one of which he compared Theodore
Roosevelt to Aaron Burr Private mes
sages to members Of the House from
OHIO indicate that the fighting is ap-
preaching very rapidly nc bitterness
If 1912, which split the party in Ohio
almost squarely in two, with the Pro-
gresslve element slightly III the lead
Democrats Are Hopeful
Ohio Republicans here to-day, ire
spective of their inclinatons as to
Presidential candidates, are distressed
over the situation and the Democrats
from the Buckeye State are exultant.
TAe Democrats have smootaed away
their fights in the state. Senator Pen
rose having withdrawn in favor of Gov
ernor James M. Cox, and everything is
running smoothly. The result is that
for the first time since 1918, when
the kepub leans gained five meuhars