New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-03
Chiefs
Get Together
TOWN Fight
Hitchcock and Managers
of Southern and Eastern
Districts in Conference
and Outline Campaign

Another threatened crisis in the
management of the pre-conventon
campaign of General Leonard Wood
was successfully passed yesterday in
an all-day conference at the Hotel
Manhattan attended by Frank H.
Hitchcock, general manager of the
Leonard Wood Campaign Committee,
Representative Norman J. Gould and
Colonel Thomas w. Miller, Eastern
manager and assistant Eastern man
ager, and United States Senator George
H. Moses, Of New HampshiroA Southern
manager of the Wood campaign.
1t is understood that Mr.. Hitchcock,
who was called in by General Wood
himself on March 5 to act as general
manager, after John T. King, national
committeeman from Connecticut, had
of the Wood canvass, discovered last
week that some of his reasonable re-
quests made on Colonel William c.
Proctor, chairman of the Leonard
Wood National Committee, had not
been honored in a manner consistent
with his ideas of efficient handling Of
the campaign, and he called in Eastern
and Southern managers to advise them
he would resign unless fuller CO.
operation were brought about
New Jersey Neglect Charged
The latest difference between Colonel
Proctor and Mr.. Hitchcock is said to
have been over the neglect of Colonel
Proctor at the Chicago headquarters to
provide adequate funds for carrying on
the fight in the New Jersey primary. 1t
is said the Eastern managers, support
ed by Mr.. Hitchcock, requested a rea-
ing, circularizing and automobiles for
Tuesday last in New Jersey and that
the Chicago headquarters failed to re-
spond.
Two weeks before the New Jersey
primary 1t looked az if General Wood
would carry the state by from $4,000
to 10000. Then came the "invasion' of
Senator Johnson, assisted by Senators
Borah and Kenyon and others, backed
by the Hearst press, while General
Wood, on account of impending strike
troubles, abandoned his New Jersey
campaign altogether. The narrow Wood
ayers and Mr.. Hitchcock. Moreover,
the johnson men seemed to have plenty
of money in the big towns.
Decision of Conference
Following the conference yesterday a
Tribune reporter saw one Of the con-
ferees, who said:
"The upshot of our conference to-
day is that we have decided to main
tain united front and put General
Wood over at Chicago. When we have
| done our best to bring about his NOM
ination our work will be done. We
were all of one mind to-day that the
thing to do is to stick together as we
are at present, the Eastern and South
ern managers attending strictly to
business in the East and South. On
this understanding we shall not assume
any responsibility for the campaign in
Indiana, which is in charge of the Chi
cago headquarters and the Wood organ
zation in Indiana Our work will be
the Maryland primaries tomorrow and
the Pennsylvania and Vermont pri-
maries on May 18. These contests,
with proper attention to the Empire
State delegates, will keep us busy at
the Eastern headquarters until after
the middle of May. 1t is true there
were heartburnings over some of the
features of the New Jersey campaign,
but we came out on top, with nineteen
of the twenty-eight delegates, and that
is doing we'll under all the circum-
stances"
Offer to Share Recount Expense
Captain Robert j. Foster leader of
the Wood forces in Essex County, N. j.,
during the recent primary in that
state, sent the following telegram to
General Wood at Indianapolis Sunday
night: ht
Jersey primaries made against the
sxt