South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-03
G0VS. LOWDEN AND
COOLIDGE HEAD
One G. @. P. SLATE
Formidable Forces Forming
Behind Proposed Ticket at
Coming Convention.
BY LOUIS LUDLOW.

CHICAGO, June For president,
Frank o. Lowden of Illinois. For
vice president, Gov. Calvin Coolidge
of Massachusetts.
Formidable forces are being or
ganized behind this proposed ma
tiOnal ticket. and men whose infiu-
ence IN national affairs is urques-
toned are marshalling their lieuten-
ants 10 bring. about the nomination
OF this ticket by the Chicago ma
tional convention.
1t is believed by the proponents of
this ticket thdA a combination COM
posed of the governors of two great
states would appeal TO the popular
imagination.
Party leaders are cOunseling with
each other with a view 10 putting
across the nomination Of Lowden.
The telegraph and long distance
telephone wires out OF Chicago are
being freely used. With these men
the vice presidential nomination is a
secondary Considera lion. They are
for Coolidge as the situation now
stands. but IL il should become nee
essaTy in order 10 save Lowden 10
put a radical on the tail of the
ticket they would not hesitate. They
believe that CoOlidge's record for
law enforcement and particularly his
handling OF the bolsheViSt elements
in Massachusetts made a hit with
the public and elevated him TO front
rank among the vice presidential
eligibles.
LOwden i'm Touch.
But LOwden is the man in whom
they are specially interested and
there IS no doubt that a powerful
rarsfsr ion
hind the Illinois man. Gov. 1oWden
is here in person. with quarters at
the Blackstone hotel. and is in thor
ough touch with all that is going on.
Leaders who are now on the
ground and who generally know
what they are talking about. say that
Lowden will go into the convention
with 200 votes, or about 100 less
than Gen. Wood. but that Lowden
Will have a reserve strength far be-
yond that of any other candidate.
and that the plan will be 10 handle
this reserve so that as the ballots
proceed. Lowden will gain on every
ballot.
Hard Man TO Beat.
The entire panorama OF the plan
10 nominate Lowden became visible
today to close observers and the
knowing ones became convinced
from what they learned that ne is
going TO be a hard man 10 beat. The
Lowden reserves are widely distri-
buted. His hackers are refusing 10
give out any figures but they are
privately making the most surpris-
ing claims as 10 ultimate deliveries
into the Lowden column. For eX
ample. they claim that ultimately
Lowden will get 30 votes out of
Ohio. from % TO 90 out Of Indiana,
practically the entire Kentucky dele
cation and Pennsylvania enormous
vote They say the situation Is go
ing 20 simmer down so that Wood
and LOwden viii be the leading con-
tenders and they have no hesitancy
in predicting that in a situation OF
that kind Sen. PenrOSe will drop his
candidate. Sen. Knox. and turn the
PENNSYLVANIA vote 10 IsOWden.
Organization Behind LOwden.
OF course ii is a far cry yet 10 the
nomination OF a candidate for the
presidency. but Lowden is the man
20 watch. for IL is behind him that
the organization forces Of the party
which usually have had a great deal
10 do with controlling nominations
in the past are gathering. These
men declare that the revelations as
20 Lowden's enormous campaign eX-
penses will hot hurt him. but rather
may be an asset in his favor. as
showing the business ability and or
derly system with which his candi-
daCy has been managed. and besides
IL is argued that Lowden attracted
popular favor when he laid all his
cards on the table and concealed
nothing. It Is Couteuded that he has
displayed the same business ability
in his administration as governor OF
Illinois and that. n sent 20 Washing
ton. he would give a business adj
ministration oS the rational govern
ment.
FNNCT SUNDR1 BILL.