The Washington times., 1920-06-06
VISITORS POUR
!. INTO CHICAGO.
Last of Delegates Arriving to
Find Pre- Convention Situa-
ton Up In Air.
ny GEORGE IL HOLMES.
intern stienaI News service.

CHICAGO. June 6.-Upwards of
300 delegates TO the Chicago conyen-
tion win descend upon Chicago today
and tomorrow to face a situation un-
/, precedented I'm convention annals.
Casting aside the claims, charges.
. and political camounagss. the bald
; facts faced by party leaders is that
Z with the opening OF the convention,
. matter OF only sixty hours away,
no one can cay in truth that any one
I, OF the dozen candidates and dark
horses have been eliminated from the
( Presidential sweepstakes. Senator
Hiram Johnson, himself in the front
, rank Of contestants, epitomiEed the
: situation from an observers stand
paint today.
Predicts IsshtssI.E.
"Do you md, gentlemen" he asked
y. group OF correspondents, that the
situation is Tightening any:"
Not much, Senator" replied some
lone.
Well" commented the Californian,
,'usybe the situation will tighten a
olt with the arrival of the delegates"
Our kingdom for a leader" seemed
10 be the prevailing cry from party
slesders today. The unsrammatical
ytcho was: "
80 There amt none
Haze of Doubt Persists.
ja There was little Qualification today
p! he haze of doubt which hangs over
= 10 entire Presidential situation. The
..ds .gates who are here muled aim
pessly around hotel corridors and
Euaets during the day seeking guild
. ace and information.
The national committee yesterday
pent garrulous day deciding con-
TESTS and stopping now and then to
! hurl further denunciation at Senator
IeorSe III. Moses for his statement
that Wood was being "steam-rollered"
by the governing body of the Repub-
lean party.
A. 7. Hert, Of Kentucky. and John
Y. King, of Connecticut, both OF whom
have been considered as possible or
Sanization leaders, were absent from
most of yesterdays session. Up at
She other end of town. in the Black
Gtone Hotel, Senator James Watson,
'of Indiana. received many callers. Ez-
Senator Murray Crane. of Massachu-
setts.' another old guardsman of note,
came into the national committee
hearing and had whispered confer
ence with Joseph Is. Heating, of In
diana.
Wood Loses Contests.
The committee practically wound
up it's hearings on contests last night
Virginia and Texas were the last OF
the long list.
A recapitulation of the results of
the weeks contest hearings show that
s,encral Wood has lost heavily at the
}iands of the national committee. In
Geariy every instance the States
(which his campaign managers organ
kcd in their Southern States against
the organizations of those States have
taone down to defeat before the COM
;fnittee.
Who has been the direct beneficiary
of the committees decisions against
the Wood picked delegates from the
South remains to be seen. The popu-
lar supposition is that Lowden will
get the majority of these, but the
ns tional committeeman of the South
% control the delegates are non
80 nmital on the subject. They say
they are not bound. although admit
tn 3 at the same time that they are
I'friendly TO Lowden."
Votes Of South Jncertain.
The only thing that they are sure
et is that Wood will not get any of
6en. The methods of the Wood
managers in coming into the "Solid
south" and fighting the Republican
or ganizations with Wood states in
each State and then bringing contests
30 Chicago Is not to their liking.