The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
ITS WOOD AGAINST
 TRE FIELD AS DAY
 FOR VOTING YEARS
Delegates Too Conservative to Nominate Johnson and Won't Have LOwden
 After Fund Scandal
By CLINTON W. GILBERT.

Chicago, June D. (Spe- cial. )-It is Wood against the field as the day for balloting in in the republican national con- vention approaches. Lowden, like Johnson, realizes already that the convention will not have him (Lowden), because the delegates do not care to nominate him, smirched with the Missouri expenditures, and Johnson, because the delegates are too conservative to accept him.
 The Lowden forces held confer- ence last night at the home of Medill Mccormick. What plans they arrived at to dispose of their strength in order to control the convention are not yet known.
 The big Wood drive centers about the appointment of Hitchcock and his associates as convention managers. Wood was the strongest of the three leading candidates and he has not yet bowed to the sentiment of the conven- ton in favor of finding a new candi- date unaffected by the primary sean daL That sentiment is as strong as ever. but 1t is unorganized and in capable of effective action, unless, un- der Johnson's leadership and in CO., operation with the Lowden delegates from the central, President making states, 1t promptly finds a candidate.
 The new Wood drive remains one of the Lowden effort of few days ago. There is much talk about Woods go- ing over on an early ballot and there is much half-reluctant Wood support to be found in many delegations, un- less the sentiment of the convention in favor of finding a candidate surer to win becomes organized and finds expression.
 DEPENDS ON JOHNSON
 The situation apparently depends on Johnson and his capacity to make the most of the issue he is raising, of hon. esty in the republican party.
 The national tendency of Johnson is to find his candidate either in New ' York or Pennsylvania. where there is big block of uncommitted delegates who want some other candidate than Wood but may go to Wood if no such candidate is found. Three names stand out as possibilities, all from this sec tion. One is Senator Knox. Another is Governor Sproul and the third is Charles E. Hughes No one knows where the Lowden strength stands with respect to these three pos abilities.
 Johnson has sensed the situa- tion. He Is likely to withdraw his
 name on an early ballot. Many of
 his own delegates do not want to
 vote for him. and he will not walt
 H~fv
 and hi. influence in the conyen-
 ton to wane. He will make his
 fight while he still has the power
 to fight.
 And he will make fight As said in this correspondence yesterday, it will be a bitter fight. He can make it effective only if it is not made for himself. Only if it is made for a cause. He. with Senator Borah as his lieutenant. will play the role of Bryan in the democratic convention at Balti- more. With the threat that if the convention fails they will play the rols of Bryan in 1904. when he read to the democrats assem bled in St. Louis the handwriting on the wall. and when they paid no attention to the warning. took no part in the campaign, but watched them go down to defeat in the election.
 WILL NOT BOLT
 Johnson and Borah will not bolt. They will not threaten to bolt. But they will leave on the minds of the delegates in the Coliseum the impress sion that they will sulk in their tents if the party does not heed their ad- monition that it must not enter the campaign smeared with the money tContfaued on Page Ten)