Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-06-03
No CANDIDATE
MAKING GAINS
Uncertainty Prevails as
Delegates Begin to
Reach Chicago.
JOHNSON ARRIVES
TO MUSTER FORCES
Senator Harding Also Reaches Chi
cago-Manaeers of Various Candi-
dates Continue to Express Confis
dence-AIl Admit Nomin alton viii
Not Result Until After Third Bal
lot Has Been Taken.
BY Associated Press.

Chicago, June 3.-Two republican
presidential candidates. Senator
Johnson. OF California, and Senator
Harding, OF Ohio. arrived in Chicago
today, and their coming marks the
beginning OF the active days OF the
pre- convention period.
Five days remain before the re-
publican party assemblies in the Col
iseum to pick its candidate, and
those five days are expected to con-
tain crowded hours of conferences
last-minute alignment Of forces. and
final decisions among the campaign
managers. Every one of the candi-
dates except Herbert Hoover is ex-
vance guards of the delegates are
beginning to arrive, and by Sunday
they will be coming In steady
stream. The majority OF them are
technically unpledged. but most of
them have their leanings and very
few OF them are claimed by less
than three campaign managers.
Uncertainty Prevails.
Some Of the chairmen of the in
coming delegations are announcing
their preferences in prepared state
ments which breathe confidence OF
success. but the political managers
standing on the sidelines, and maxi
ing up their states, have found no
reason for changing their opinion
that while some OF the candidates
have enough delegates to give them
formidable fighting strength In the
convention, It is going to take more
than two or three ballots to show
where the forces of conciliation and
tsanS 1shlSIt 1le ~ l1rinjp
forth q candidate who will command
q majority.
II the realm OF speculation were to
be entered it would be necessary to
mention practically every candidate
who has announced himself thus far,
hecause every one OF these candidat-
es has q manager who advances q
set of reasons why his principal is
the logical, choice for convention
which Will not be prepared to give
a majority of its votes to any one
at the outset.
Platform Ideas Pushed. ~,
As the delegates begin to gather
there Is forerunner of discussion
of the convention issues which will
find expression in the party plat
form, and those who are Interested in
having the party take a position on
various subjects are busy lining up
influences which they expect to be
effective in the deliberation of the
resolutions committee.
AS soon as the members Of the ma
tiona1 committee are freed from con
sideration Of the claims of delega-
ions contesting for seats, things are
expected to move along with more
speed and the committee even will
hnd themselves free to give atten-
ton to the convention issues. While
the contests are on, discussion Of
candidates. platform and prospects
is to them left hand work,
The committee today still had b.-
fore it awaiting decision the Florida
and Georgia cases and the cases Of
the eight district delegates from
Mississippi. From those cases it was
waiting to pass on to the contest
from North Carolina, Oklahoma
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas
and Virginia. The indications are
That the time-consuming contesta
have been passed and that with
Georgia and Florida cases out Of the
way, the remainder will be disnosed
OF more quickly.
Florida Case Reached.
In the Sixth Tennessee district II
was announced that Harry A Tucl,
OF Nashville, had withdrawn his con-
test. J. c. r. Mccall. of Nashville
uninstructed, was seated. He was
claimed for Wood.
The first contest taken up today
was the suspended Florida case-the
dispute between the Wood faction by
National Committeeman Bean and
that led by II. L. Anderson, OF Jacx-
sonville, reported to favor johnson.
After the rehearing the Florida
case got another postponement, de-
cision being put over to p. m.
Meanwhile the committee took nm
the North Carolina contest, where a
contesting delegation was asking for
the seats to which the Morehead
faction had been certified.
The North Carolina Morehead
delegates were seated. One contest
ant appeared to press tho claim
against them.
Oklahoma Negroes Lose.
The white delegates from second
Oklahoma district, L. g. Disney, of
Muskogee. and o. o. Grant, of Still
water, were seated. The negro con-
testants argued unsuccessfully that
they were debarred from the Musko-
gee convention.