Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-15
FRIENDS TRIED
To BUY WOOD 8
NOMINATION IS
BUTLER s VIEW
Stock Gamblers, Mining and
Oil Promoters and NUM-
ton Makers Charged With
Using a Huge SIush Fund.
CANDIDATES. DEFEAT
SAVED REPUBLICANS
Beaten Forces Represent All
That Is Worst in Ameri-
can Business and Ameri-
can Political Life, Says.

10y MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wiRxl
New York, June l4.-Charges
that "a motley group of stock gam
blers, oil and mining promoters.
munitIon works and other IKE per-
sons seized on so good man as
General Wood and with reckless
audacity started out to buy for him
the presidential nomination" were
made in a statement given out la
night by Nicholas Murray Brues.
an unsuccessful republican candi
date.
ut was the cause of genuine s0r-
row to me as to many other oc
General Woods personal frien
he said, "to see him put in tEla
unhappy position. There was moth
ing to do to save the republic
party but to defeat the nand rs
men behind him with their hs.g
accounts. This meant we had f0
defeat General wood.
To Bad They Hit Upon Wool
THE forces defeated in tr"lr ~
solent attempt to buy the non sa-
ton represent all that is WI wt-a ln
American business and An r,c4n
political life. IL IN really tt la
they hit upon General Woou as
their choice. They should have
found some one to support for
whom the country has less respect
and less regard.
"'rhe chief task OF the conven-
ton was to prevent the sale OF
presidential nominations at auc-
ton to the highest bidder. Had this
not been done, the party faced not
only certain defeat but crushing
dishonor. The Xty-eight New
York delegates who voted for me
on the first ballot were the chief
factor in stopping the Hindenburg
drive to overwhelm the convention
by the power OF unlimited money
and by strong arm methods In
preferential primaries.
The story of New York's sixty
eight votes for Butler shows, the
statement said, how General Wood
was defeated, It points out that
the first ballot gave General Wood
a substantial lead and that : the
first task, therefore. was to bring
the vote of his nearest rival, Gov
ernor Lowden, up to WOODS vote.
New York the Belgium of the War.
Owing to local and state comph-
cations, the statement explains,
there were few sources from
which new Lowden strength could
be drawn. so early, Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts,, Michigan and Ohio
could not help, it added, because
the release OF the delegates In those
states, probably, would give Wood
more votes than Lowden.
1T was clearly necessary, there
fore" the statement continu7d, for
New York to become the Belgium
of the war, and | cheerfully gave
my approval for the plan to turn
New York's vote to Lowden in III
creasing the volume on the sec
ond third, fourth, fifth, sixth and
seventh ballots. ! sent word to the
New York delegation that with me
party success and party honor
came first | also said no personal
interest should be considered until
party success and party honor had
been protected.
Helped Drift Toward Harding.
ut was this New York vote for
Lowden taken from the sixty-eight
NOIeS cast LOT me lildl SdNt itO"AN u
his lead in the fifth ballot and that
enabled him substantially to equal
the Wood vote on the ballot follow
ing. When after the seventh ballot
il was clear Lowdeu could not he
nominated, we helped the drift to-
ward Harding and on the ninth
ballot became the decisive psyche
logical factor by giving Harding
siXtvsiX votes.
1.-THE few New York votes that
continued to support me were cast
in pursuance OF earnest requests
from delegates in Connecticut. NV
Jersey, Michigan, Minnesota. IL
linois Iowa. Missouri. North
Dakota, California. Washington.
Texas and Kentucky, so that
il the effort TO nominate Sem
ator Harding should fail. my
name might still remain upon the
list Of candidates,
Candidates Are Praised.
THE New Workers who care for
the republican party and for the
success of its principles and who
are Jealous of the honor should re-
ioice and take satisfaction, that
their representatives in the repub-
lican national convention, although
by no means unified in sentiment
or in organization. were yet able TO
exert SO commanding an influence
in a great emergency
Harding and Coolidge are first
of all patriotic Americans and next
republicans. We are to have the
of supporting and
electing real republican tkciet.
We may now look forward with
complete confidence to the restora-
tion OF the national government to
its old foundations, which are love
and reverence for the constitution,