New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-05
Generals Supporters Al
lege Majority of Deci-
sions in Delegate Hear
ings Are Pro-Lowden
Expose of Fund Is
Blow to I!iinOisan
johnson Men Laying Plan
to Start Stampede i'm
Convention for Senator
By Carter Field

NHl0hNO, JUNE 81 fldIStS q
steam roller 1912 methods, which
would lead to Republican disaster il
November if they did not bring
about coalition of the Johnson and
Wood forces in the convention, were
made by Senator George II. Moses,
Southern manager for Major Gen
eral Wood, tonight. Mr.. Moses's IL
dignation resulted from the seating
by the national committee Of avowed
Lowden delegates in Georgia, al
though the claim is made by the
Wood people that the fifteen Wood
delegates rejected to-day were
elected according to the regular rules
and regulations laid down by the
national committee itself.
Lowden Gain 25
In addition to the Georgia dele
gates. the committees decisions
seated twelve other delegates claimed
for Lowden whose election was cor
tested, making a total gain claimed
for Lowden of twenty-eight votes
during the day.
Senator Moses, in summing up his
charges Of steam roller tactics, as
serted th4 the Wood and Johnson
strength jointly controlled the con-
Il l.
national committee might not be dis
cerning enough to know what they
were doing ''in making a coalition of
these forces inevitable others
mioht not be so shortsighted.
When General Wood learned of
Senator Moses announcement, he
'loath to believe that any selfish
OF personal intersct would be per
,Vitted 10 outweigh those Of the pub
lie good ain the decisions handed down
Na..unal Committee.
He added his belief that "Chairman
Hays is absolutely fair in his handling
of the situation" He indicated that
appeals would be taken from any de
cisions of the National Committee
finally decided by the Wood forces to
be unJustlfied.
Senator Mosess accusation was the
outstanding feature Of turbulent day
at the Coliseum and around the head
quarters hotels.
A few Of the other features were:
Senator Johnson solemnly warned the
delegates from states he carried in the
primaries, naming Nebraska and Mich
gan where the delegates are obviously
eagerly awaiting chance TO break
from the Californian, that ne con
sidered them bound to him until he
should release them, and that if they
deserted before he would tell the
country what he thought Of them.
Johnson Would Modify Treaty
While continuing his attacks on pos
sible "straddling' or pussy footing
on the treaty plank by the convention,
Senator Johnson is far from maintain
ing the straightout position On the
treaty he took in the Senate. He care
fully specified that he opposed the
league "as submitted by the Pres dent,
and did not answer directly question
TO whether he would have the Re
publican convention adopt PLANK on
which the mild reservatonists could
not stand.
The Lowden boom was HIT by a~other
"disclosure," this time not from tao
Kenyon committee but from ->a-.onal
Committeeman James J. McGraw, Of
Oklahoma. McGraw charged that he
lost control of the Oklahoma conven-
ton, which he would have had instruct
the delegation for Wood. after loar
Of $4,000 had been made by Jake
Hamon. now controlling the delegation
and who is for Lowden, to Vernon "
Whiting. chairman Of the Republican
State Central Committee. McGraw
hastened TO say, shortly after he had
given out statement about this, tina,
he did not mean to intimate that Gov
ernor Lowden knew anything about tre
i incident or involved in am way.
Governor Lowden declined TO com
ment further on the Missouri mix-up,
save TO say that he understood steps
were being taken to prevent the seating
of Robert +. Moore and Nat Goldstein
/ by the convention, who admitted ac
ceptng $500 each from L. L. Emmer-
] son, Iowdens S manager, and who put
it in their r~reonal bank accounts in
stead of using /, e. wo-'' "p Lowden
/ sentiment
Wood Denies Erc1k
General Wood was indignant in talk
ing with newspaper men about the pub
icaJion rs an accomplished .act that
Colonel Proctor had been ousted from
the Wood mana cement.
"Procter fred was the way the
Hearst papers here headlined this.
Proctor is actually directing the cam
paign in the same way he has been,
while Hitchcock is directing the practi-
cal political activities of the Wood
movement.
AS a matter of fact. the seating of
the 6fteen contested delegates In
Georgia, who are tied ap for Lowden
is not tremendously significant Henry
Lincoln Johnson, the negro leader a,
the head Of the Lowden forces in