New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
Presidential
Candidates to
Be Heard Here
Wood Claims Support of
Most N. Y. Delegates as
Other Aspirants Prepare
to Invade New York
Johnson Here i'm 10 Davs
Lenroot Before Republican
Committee Thursday; AL
len at Hippodrome May %


Most Of the leading candidates for
the Republican nomination for Presi.
dent will address local meetings in the
next two weeks as part of the effort
all are making to line up as many as
possible of the states eighty-eigh,
delegates before June 8.
Managers of all the candidates con-
cede that the convention will be the
most open in decades. 1t is the first
time in years that there has not been
n powerful clique in control of the
national organization, determined to
put over some favoritc candidate.
Leaders in this state have made an
effort to keep the delegates together
so that the state can play an impor-
tant, if not the deciding part, at
Chicago. The delegates are unin-
structed.
The managers of General Wood
claim to have the bulge on the situa-
tion in this state. They contend that
about fifty of the New York delegates
will swing to Wood after the first vote
is cast for Dr.. Nicholas Murray Butler
The managers of Governor Lowden
while not giving out any figures, de-
clare that after the first vote there will
be considerable Lowden strength shown
in the New York delegation.
Senator Hiram Johnson's friends de-
clare that United States Senator Calder
and five other Brooklyn delegates will
vote for the California man, but they
concede that County Leader Jacob A
Livingston. who is personally for W ood
controls the majority of the Kings
County delegation.
Johnson to Speak in Bronx
Johnson will speak before the Bronx
County Republican organization within
the next ten days. This does not mean
that the Bronx is for Johnson. Local
Republican organizations, following a
custom here, arranged a meeting for
him
Through F. II. La Guardia, Presi-
dent of the Board Of Aldermen, ar
S'atcs Senator Lenroot. OF Wisconsin,
La Gunrdia's choice, to address the
New York Republican County Com
mittce at its monthly meeting at Bry-
ant Hal next Thursday night
Governor Henry J. Allen will speak
at the Hippodrome May %. He will
be heard in & debate with Samuel
Gompcrs on Aliens Industrial Court. of
Kansas.
While General Wood has announced
that he will be unable to speak here on
either May 27 or %, as he has en-
gagements elsewhere, an effort is be-
the engagements so that he can be
heard at mass meeting in Carnegie
Hall.
Among the prominent members of
the New York delegation who are said
to be for Wood are United States Sem
ator James W. Wadsworth, Chauncey
NJ. Depew, Henry l.. Stimson, Helen
Farick Boswell. Albert j. Berwin,
John J. Lyon, F. j. H. Kracke, Mrs.
Florence f. S. Knapp and Irving
L'Hommc cdieu.
field are firm believers in Butuer and
thinks he stands an excellent chance
for the nomination.
Lowden Claims Votes
The Lowden people assert that Shelf
field and Taft are for the Illinois man
for second choice, and also declare
that Lowden is favored by Jacob ".
Brenner, Herbert Parsons, Charles D.
Hilies and Charles Whitman.
The Wood managers claim from
twcnty to thirty votes for Wood from
Now York on the first ballot Strenu-
Gus efforts will be made by the New
York leaders to prevent this. Not that
they are antagonistic to Wood, for
many of them are for him, but to hold
the delegation together until the break
comes Oh the third or fourth ballot
The Wood people also think the bulk
of the 108 delegates to be chosen next
week will be for Wood, either on the
first or second ballot.
The seventy-six delegates to be
chosen in Pennsylvania Tuesday, it is
said, will vote solidly for Wood on the
second ballot. Their first vote will be
q complimentary one to Governor
Sproul. The eight delegates from Yer
mont, who also will be chosen Tues
day. are Wood men. General Wood is
to address the Vermont Republican
State Committee on the Goth.
Wood Second in Alabama
Alabama will choose fourteen dele
gates on Wednesday. A recent pol
showed Lowden first choice and Wood
81 second favorite in Alabama.
Oregon will select her ten delegates
Friday. The Wood strength has been
considerable there for months, anG
Hoover's withdrawal from the prima
ries has added to it.
Tne following week Texas and Wcs.
Virginia will make their selections
and that will wind up the choosing 6!
Republican delegates.
The District of Columbia, which al.
ready has elected two sets of delegates
pledged to Wood, will elect a thirc
couple Of Wood supporters next week
There is no law in the District of Co
lumbia governing the primaries, so as
many delegates as wish may run in II:
many primaries as the local politicians
decree.
Senator George H, Moses, Wood.
Southern manager, said that the two
delegates who probably would be scat
ed would be Frank Hogan, who defend
cd the Riggs National Bank In it's It'll
cation with the Controller of tn.
treasury, John Shelton Williams, a few
years ago, and John Cobb, a promi
nent negro lawyer of the national cap
ltol. 1t is tradition to seat one whit
man and one negro from the district.
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