New-York tribune., 1920-05-17
State Manager
Claims Oregon
For Gen. Wood
Politicians Are Allxiously
Awaiting Next Fridays
Primary in Territory
Favorable to Johnson
Generals Treaty Stand
T. w. Miller Declares His
Candidate Is in Favor
of Lodge Reservations

Politicians are anxiously waiting for
in Oregon next Friday, where the fight
is between General Leonard Wood and
! United States Senator Hiram johnson,
| of California.
| Ordinarily, it should be walkovcr
for the Californian, as he is popular
on the Pacific slope. But impartial
observers look for close race between
johnson and Wood. Word was re-
ceved yesterday from Dow w. Walker,
Woods Oregon manager declaring that
the primaries would go to Wood.
The West Virginia Contest.
Next week, in West Virginia, Wood
again will be a candidate against
native son--United States Senator
Howard Sutherland. John S. Darst,
who has been managing Woods cam
paign in West Virginia, believes Wood
will carry the State
While the Alabama delegates will
not be chosen until Wednesday, the
received word from the South yester-
day that at least two of the delega-
tion will be pledged to Wood.
The Wood managers express salts
faction over the outlook in Vermont
ard Pennsylvania.
The extremes to which political op-
ponents sometimes go has been brought
hcme to the Wood managers since Gen
e,al Wood declared in Washington
last week, in answer to g question
from one of group Of newspaper men,
if it was Americanized. Wood was
asked if he favored the Lodge reserva-
tions.
"Since General Wood made this an
swer," said Thomas W. Miller, one of
Woods Eastern managers, "efforts have
been made by those hostile to General
Woods candidacy to make it appear
as one of them put it---that Wood
knows nothing about the league of ma
tions nor the Lodge reservations, and
that he is evading and sidestepping.
"As matter Of fact, General Wood
has well-defned and consistently
nations. His attitude with regard to
the league of nations has been and will
continue to be precisely the attitude
the Republican party has taken and
the attitude in which the Republican
party will go to the bat with the Dem
ocratic party in the Presidential cam
paign, if the league Of nations is made
| an issue.
Woods Position
General Woods attitude on the
league of nations has been made un-
one Of his speeches in the various
states in which he has campaigns
Just the other day he said in a speech
at the Four By Four Club, in New
York City: There can be no league
of nations unless it is thoroughly
Americanized America must be alb
solutely free to decide for herself when
her blood and treasure are to be spent
We desire to be ready to help a world
in trouble, but we are the ones and
must always be the ones to decide when
it is right and when our military es-
tablishment is to be employed. The
Monroe Doctrine must be left intact
and we must be free to follow our
traditional policies. We should try to
preserve as far as possible the ma
chinery provided by the league to bring
the representatives of the people of the
nations together to talk things over
before they resort to force Nothing
could be palmer or more pointed than
General Woods attitude toward the
league.
General Wood d9Gned hh position
several months ago when he replied tc
an inquiry from Senator Borah as to
how he stood or the league Within
twenty-four hours after receiving
Senator Borah's inquiry General
Wood sent the following answer:
az believe that we should accept
the league of nations as modified anc
safeguarded by existing Lodge reser
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that Americanize
. it and safeguard our traditional poll
cies; reservations which leave Amer
ica absolutely free and untrammelee
to follow the will of her own people
in all questions of foreign and de.
mestic policy.
"'I, of course, at all times favor
getting the views of the people of the