The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-06-09
Il T'SA FIGHT
FOR Grip ON
COP. REINS
Nominated of Mi
nor Interest to Rival
Camps Of Managers.
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial to The Argus.)

Especial to The Argus.)
Chicago, June 9.-Two rival sets
Of managers are really fighting for
control Of the next Republican cam
paign and it is not altogether per-
tinent who the nominee shall be so
long as control is assured tn vic
torious group. Thus does the
struggle between the Lowden and
the Wood managers overshadow
everything else. Former Postmas-
ter General Hitchcock and his lieu
tenants are battling ostensibly in
behalf of Leonard Wood and Tobias
Hert of Kentucky is pushing things
all he can for Lowden, but each
manager knows that If neither
Wood nor Lowden is nominated, the
maneuvers by which the dark horse
is named must be such as to assure
q say in the management of that
nominees campaign.
Behind the scenes conferences
galore and whispered messages
from group to group intensity the
excitement as the truth stared ev-
cry contender in the face, namely
that not one of the men whose
names hav1been mentioned for the
presidency can look forward to the
balloting with any degree of con-
fidence.
Split Nay Be Wider.
Nay, the fights that are ahead
may tear the managers further
asunder. Senator Borah is deter
mined to make a fight before the
convention on the League of Ma
tions. Some of his friends are open
ly quoting the Idaho senator as pre-
dieting an independent ticket il the
Republican party insists on fax0k-
ing the ratification of the peace
treaty with reservations. Nobody
says that Borah will lead it or that
Hiram Johnson will sanction it for
these two men have not definitely
made known their intentions. But
the shrewd leaders are beginning
really to fear. that the anti-treaty
and anti-league sentiment will find
an outlet of some kind in a new
party. Senator Medill Mccormick
hints at 1t. William Randolph
Hearst plans it. William jennings
Bryan hopes for it.
Nevertheless the senatorial group
and the elder statesmen who make
up the resolutions committee which
is to draft the platform have un-
f1inchingly taken their stand with
Senator Lodge in favor of the peace
treaty with reservations" 1t is a
first defeat for Senator Johnson
and probably will be further accen-
tuated when the convention turns
down Senator Borah's plea for a
plank against the treaty and league
in any form. Notwithstanding the
enthusiastic demonstrations for
Johnson and the stand which q doz-
en- Republican senators have taken
against the treaty and league with
or without reservations, the deter
mination Of the men in control of
this convention-namely the Wood
and Lowden managers-is to brush
Johnson's viewpoint aside as in
consequential. They do not want t ,
give the Democrats the clear cut is
sue on the treaty which President
Wilson has sought. Indeed, there
is q growing tendency to ignore
the California senator in many
quarters here. His declaration that
he wouldn't bolt is accepted in good
faith and further ahead than the
present job of nominating candi-
date the aforesaid leaders do not
seem to be looking.
Nomination q Miracle.
Again and again, delegates are
heard expressing the belief that
johnson is and would be a wonder
full vote-getter but the eastern Re-
publicans are almost a unit against
him SO that only a miracle can
bring about his nomination. That
miracle may come in the form Of a
death struggle between the I.owien
and Johnson managers who in GER
tain contingencies might make the
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