New-York tribune., 1920-06-14
Plans for Battle To Be
Outlined When Com.
mittee Meets Nominee
at Ohio Home Soon
Wood Consented
To Help Lowtlen
Proctor, However, Vetoed
Plan to Throw Generals
Delegates to lllinoisan
From, Stag Correspondent

From q Stag Correspondent
CHICAGO, June 13.-CompIete
harmony was restored in the Repub-
lican party to-day when assurances
were given the party's national lead
ers that not only will there be no
bolt but that Senators Hiram ".
johnson, of California, and William
E. Borah, of Idaho, will actively
support Senator Harding.
S nator Johnson, before leaving
for Washington last night, sent the
nominee message of congratula-
ton. and later his friends informed
the leaders that the defeated candi-
date expects to take the stump in be-
half of the Harding Coolidge ticket.
Senator Borah. who filed Chicago
with threats of bolt during the hea.
of the fight for the nomination, has not
made any direct statement, but his
friends said for him to-day that the
Idaho Senator will be found activelg
working for Harding's election when
the campaign opens.
The leaders had feared that johnson
and Borah would decline to take an
active part in the campaign, and the
loss OF their open support would have
handicapped the Republicans in the
West.
To Plan Campaign Soon
Plans for the coming struggle will
be made during the next week or two
when the committee of five elected b,
the national committee last night to
direct the campaign goes to Marion.
Ohio, and confers with Senator Hard
ing. Members of the committee are a
T. Hert, Charles D. Hilles, Jacob
Hamon, Ralph Williams and formeg
Senator John w. Weeks
Members of the committee predicted
to day that all factions of the part
will be brought together and ;nat the
organization will present solid from,
when it enters the campaign.
Plans of Senator Robert NJ. La Foi-
lette, of Wisconsin, however, are an
known, and it is possible that he vii
be the exception. La Toilette hss
threatened to bolt and form third
party, with the assistance Of Wisconsin
and radical organizations IL
Northwestern states.
The party leaders are not much CON
cerned over what La Toilette will do.
as they believe he will not have an
influence outside of his home state
Senator Irvine l.. Lenroot, who was
defeated by Governor Calvin Coolidge
of Massachusetts for the nominatior
for Vice President, will direct the Re
publican campaign in Wisconsin.
The group of Senators who engi-
neered the nomination of Harding have
not yet recovered fully from the de-
feat they suffered when Coolidge was
nominated for second place.
The conferences at which it wa5
arranged to swing votes to Harding t.
obtain his nomination also planned to
give Lenroot the Vice Presidential
nomination in the same way that Hard
ing would receive the first place or
the ticket
Coolidge's chances seemed so sligh-
that the Massachusetts, delegation de
cided not 10 present his name for the
However, when Ore
gon made Coolidge candidate there
was no holding the delegates, and Al
of the forces that had been tightint
the Senatorial control of the conven-
ton supported the Massachusetts Gov
ernor, the popular demand sweeping
him into second place by an ovcrwhem
ing majority.
Wood and Lowden Confer
The story of how the nomination o.
Harding was engineered came out to-
day. Governor Frank o. Lowden o.
Illinois made it possible. The Lowden
and Wood forces brought about the re-
cess at l:30 O'Clock yesterday so that
Lowden and Wood could confer. Both
candidates at that time admitted thea
defeat unless combination could be
formed Lowden discussed the situa-
ton with General Wood in the Office Of
VIII H. Hays, chairman of the Repub-
lican National Committee, at the Coli
scum
Governor Lowden asked General Wood
to throw his support to him on the ninth
ballot and General Wood consented. The
General insisted upon procuring the con-
ever, and sent for Colonel William c.
Proctor. He ignored Frank H. Hitch
cock, his floor manager. Proctor would
not agree to the plan and insisted upon
lighting TO the end.
Governor Lowden then sought Sena-
tor Harding and informed him that the
Lowden strength would be thrown to
Harding on the next ballot.
Lowden then conferred with Repre-
sentative Frank L. Smith, manager o
his campaign in Illinois, and it was de
cided that the swing to Harding woulG
not include the Lowden Illinois dele
gates. They voted for Lowden on the
ninth ballot and did not swing into
line until the nomination of Harding
on the tenth ballot was apparent to
every one.