The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-05-24
CHANCE FOR
GETTING IN IS
VERY SLIM
After Delegates Get Theirs 101
Seats Will Be Left For
Entire State.

CHICAGO. May 24-It will be about
easy for a rich man 10 get into
heaven as it viii be for an Indiana man
to get into the republican national
convention
Indiana will have 271 seats out of
total OF 1929 or the 271 the thir-
ty delegates viii receive two each
and the thirty alternates one each
This leaves ISL TO be distributed by
James A. Hemenway. of BoonviIle. na
tional committeeman for Indiana.
ILLINOIS HAS THE PICKING
Illinois viii fare best in the MAJ
ter Of seats. The Chicago commttre4
on national convention will receive
$500 and the state Of Illinois about
600. or total of about 800. not far
from one-fourth of all the seats.
Indiana delegates to the republican
national convention. which meets in
the Coliseum. June 5. viii be within
good hearing distance OF the speak
ers' platform. Indiana has the thfr-
teenth choice of seats
13 DRAW INDIANA's
Names of states and territories on
slips of paper were put in box.
shaken up and drawn out by Cbeslev
Searcy chairman of the Kentucky
state committee and Lafayette Glea
son. Of New York. who will be seera
tary Of the national convention. The
thirteenth draw was Indiana.
whether No. Is carries i'll luck with
1t may depend on the delegates them
selves The order of choice Of seats
Tor delegations. as result OF draw
ing by lot. follows: Connecticut. i.
Arkansas .: North Dakota. 8. Colo
rado. 4; Virginia. S. California :
Kansas. Z New York, s. Pennsvl
vania. g; Ohio. 10: Delaware. H. Ma
sachusetts. II. Indiana. IS; kentuckv
49, Mississippi. Is; Illinois, 16, Wash
ington. u and so, on. ending with
So
METHOD OF TICKET
DISTRIBUTION
Persons entitled to tickets wiz be
notified BY letter and they win be
directed to present their letters 10 tbe
national committeeman Of their state
"hen he reaches Chicago The ma
tional committeeman will flI out and
issue the tickets Of admission.
Things viii be different this year
from what they were in past national
conventions" says Mr.. Henley In
the past methods were rather slip
shod This year all tickets viii he IL
OF the states and distributed by them
All orders of admission will he fued
out by the national committeeman.
There is not going TO be anv mn
derground railroad method of gettinr
INTO the convention this year. In past
it mas been customary for doorkeep-
ers to admit friends from their states
PERSONS would sometimes get in on
Dacges. then send the badges out IL
serve 10 admit more persons
MUST HAVE A TICKET
This year nobody gets in without
ticket. and this applies to ser
nts-at-arms and doorkeepers as
well as anybody else Its so hard
70 get ticket that we believe the
holders Of tickets should be protected
against underground railroad meth
DDS
The national committee decided not
to have dookeepers and searseants-
alarms chosen through political
pulls this year. Soldiers are to haze
charge under command of Major
General James A Ryan. who led the
column into Mexico in pursuit OF
villa and who was with General per
shing in France
Mr. Henley says General Ryan con
standing that the men under him
would be subject to no other author
ity.
Mr.. HNIey says he regrets thai
II will be impossible to provide seats
for all the republican editors Of Ind
lana who have recently applied
INDIANA EDITORIAL SITUATION
The former Indiana secretary saws
he sent a letter out to the Ind.~-a
editors weeks ago telling .sem to
apply for seats not sater than April
20. but many applications have come
in since that time. The best chance
for such applicants is that some per
sons of Indiana for whom seats have
been assigned will not come to chi
cago. In that event Mr. Hemenwa-v
may have few for later distribution.
Letters making assignments of
seats may be presented June at the
Congress hotel TO the national com
mitteeman, who viii in turn issue