Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-06-06
Sherman Thompson Scrap
Menaces Convention Peace
Senator viii Fight for Post of National Com.
mitteeman; Mayor Seeks Vengeance.
@iMore Convention, Says Sherman.

nominee. have about reached the con-
clusion tonight that Gov. Lowden's
chances are improving. In fact, it is
again being passed around among the
! knowing that 'Lowden can't be
! stopped. And there you are.
The candidates are all putting up
strong front. The headquarters of
each are really beautifully decorated
with American flags. Hundreds of
| persons pass in and out every min
ute or two. OF course. they do not
see the candidates, but they see each
other and grab off little lat
Gen. Woods headquarters are To-
| Gated in the Elizabethan room at the
Congress Hotel. Old Queen Bess
never heard of Congress. probably.
or a republican convention. but, be-
lieve me, she would not have been
ashamed of the Elizabethan room as
it looks today. Mrs. Wood. wife of
the candidate. was at the headquar-
tiers making her husbands sup
porters welcome this afternoon. She
is very gracious hostess. The
Wood supporters are wearing feathers
in their hats and their buttonholes-
none of them white-but red and
green and pink. Among the visitors
We're Charles c. Glover and Col.
Thompson of Washington
The gold room in Congress Hotel
Is oecupieu ny tne LoWden neadquaT-
tiers and it yields the palm to none.
Herbert c. Hoover headquarters are
in the French room at the same hotel,
and the Harding forces in the Floren-
tine room.
The wives of the candidates are
fere as well as the candidates and
are good vote getters. Mrs. Lowden
is recent arrival Mrs. Poindexter
arrived with her husband yesterday
Gov. Lowden and Gen. Wood. out
OF difference to old customs. are leav
ing Chicago before the convention
neld and the other to Fort Sheridan
Senator johnson was asked if he, too.
were going to vamose also.
Gen. Wood is going to Fort Sheri-
dan. you say. How far away is that?"-
asked the senator.
About twenty miles," he was told.
Seems to me l have heard of an
other general who was twenty miles
away on a certain occasion. but ar
rived in time to save the day." said
Senator Johnson, with Il twinkle in
his eyes. Il expect these gentlemen
will keep in sufficiently close touch
with the convention even if they are
not in Chicago. For me. / am going
to stay and see the fight through. +
am not going to make any camoufiage
about going away"
Gov. Lowden was feeling much bet
severe cold. which he caught while re-
viewing the Decoration day parade
Zone of the other candidates came
in to call on me today" said the gov
ernor. He told me he was glad 1
had escaped pneumonia. said to
him: You know you would have
been glad if l had died; own up.
know you would have attended with
pleasure my funeral He laughed and
said he would have attended my flu
neral and would have declared that
/ would have made a most excellent
President if / had lived
Senator George Moses of New
Hampshire. Wood leader. who was Sc
vere1y criticised at the meeting of
the republican national committee to-
day because of his statement charging
steam roller" tactics in the commit
tee against Wood delegates to the
convention. does not appear to be
much downcast. When told of the
row he had stirred up in the commit
tee he said tersely:
"A hurt dog always howls."
A. T. Hert. national committeeman
from Kentucky. is one of the most
active Lowden supporters. and it was
against him and others that Senator
Moses made his charge.
Chairman Will Hays of the national
delivery from Casket Trimmers' Lo-
cal. No. 10, st. Louis. protesting
against the Volstead prohibition law.
Puts crimp in the wakes" sug-
gested one of the committeeman. A
dozen or more women sat in the re-
publican national committee meeting
today, passing upon the contested
delegations from Georgia. Texas and
Virginia They held the proxies of
the committeeman. Among them
were Mrs. James S. Beasley of Nash
vile. Tenn. and Mrs. Vennona F. Swami
of Joplin. Mo.
Chauncey Depew. former senator from
New York. a patriarch among republic
cans, drifted through the lobby at Con-
gress Hotel.
II hold the worlds record for being
interviewed the most times" said Sena-
tor Depew. smiling. II can't make any
prediction as to the outcome of the con-
vention. This is my thirteenth out of
Iseventeen. republican conventions in time.
,, There isn't man alive who has been
in republican politics as long as I, be-
ginning the year 1 graduated from Yale.
1856. I'm in my eighty-seventh year.
feeling just as young as ever did"
The veteran said he did not believe
that the campaign expenditures irvesti-
cation would harm the republican party.
He said he thought IL showed that it
took a lot of money to enter primary
elections. and that 1t would result in
getting back to a better and more simple
method. which would not exclude men
Of moderate means. LINCOLN.