New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
McCraw Quits
High Post With
Woods Forces
Party Skirmishes in Okla
hOma Cause Retirement ::
Management of West Is
Taken Over by Stanley
State to Back General
Colorado Poll Shows Big
Lead; Billy Sunday Sends
Note of Endorsement

On account of the factional differ
ences in Oklahoma Republican politics
and the fact that James j. McGraw
Republican national committeeman
from that state, is having difficulty in
keeping in the saddle as state leader,
Mr.. McGraw yesterday retired from
the vce-chairmanship of the Leonard
Wood campa gn committee in Chicago,
and was succeeded by Fred NJ. Stanley
Republican national committeeman
from Kansas, who hereafter viii have
general charge OF the work in the
middle Western states.
The Wood men say that both the Re
publican factions in Oklahoma are
friendly to General Wood and that he
stands the best chance of any Of the
candidates Of having the support Of
Oklahome in the Chicago conventions
1t is admitted, however, that about half
of the leaders in the organization in
Oklahoma are opposed to the continu-
ance of Mr.. McGraw as national COM
mitteemdn, and they are showing their
McGraw suggested To Colonel William
G. Proctor, chairman OF the Leonard
Wood campaign committee, that it
would be a good thing all around for
General Wood if he, McGraw, retired
from the management Of the Western
Wood 1campa ign, and this he has done
Mr. McGraw is still actively at work for
the Wood people.
West Attracts Attention
The situation in Oklahoma, Nebraska
and other Western states is attracting
more attention from the Wood people
than other parts of the country.
Representative Norman j. Gould, the
Eastern Wood manager. left for Chi
cago yesterday to attend a conference
there tomorrow of the Wood leaders
of the Middle West
The Wood managers in New York
yesterday received a telegraph from
Colorado saying that poll of the mem
bers OF the Republican State Commit
tee of Colorado, taken by The Colo
RADIO Springs Evening Telegraph" :"
showed overwhe ming sentiment for
Wood among the Republican leaders Of
the state, the figures being: Wood, 60;
Lowden, Is; Harding, 2; Poindexter, 2;
johnson, 2; Taft, /; Pershing, /. A
similar poll conducted by the same
paper among members of the Legis-
lature showed ii of the IA members of
the Senate and rs of the as members
Of the Lower House --r7o5r Wood for
President.
The Wood headquarters people are in
receipt of the following letter from
Billy Sunday, the revivalist, sent to
General Wood in Chicago:
Dear General-For several weeks 7
have been promising myself that |
would write you and let you know YOU
have booster in me; that ever since
our great loss in the death OF every
body's friend that had q drop of Ameri-
can blood in his veins, Colonel Roose-
velt, that you were my choice for the
Republican nomination for President.
| find sentiment about as follows:
cent; Harding, 10 per cent; Tafe, s per
cent. SO the Sunday bunch are solid
for General Wood"
Bound Brook Organizers
The first local Leonard Wood League
terday in Bound Brock by Warren c.
King, one of the candidates for the
Republican nomination for Governor
at the primaries in New Jersey last
September. Mr.. King invited thirty of
the leading Republicans of Bound
Brook and vicinity to join with him
In calling them together Mr.. King
said
"Never before in the history of the
Republican party have there been so
many candidates available for the
nomination for President They are
all men of demonstrated ability in
some capacity or other. but as is gen
orally the case, there is one man who
stands preeminent for the place, and
that man, to my mind, is General
Leonard Wood