New-York tribune., 1920-01-02
s'Wood Will Win
In a Walk y Says
Senator Moses
General to Have Long Lead
ON First Ballot at Chicago.
He Asserts, and Will Get
the Nomination Next Day
Special Correspondence

opect0s C0fTeSpohdeHce
CONCORD, N. H, Jan. 1.-"Wood
will win in walk" declares George
h. Moses, United States Senator from
this state. He is certain General
Leonard Wood will be nominated at
Chicago next Juno and elected the fol-
lowing November.
Next year will see 1908 repeated"
he said to-day, with the allied asso-
citation of favorite sons trying to COM
bine to defeat one man. ! know whereof
l speak, because in 1908 I was one of
Of the allies, but after that narrowing
experience l am glad to be on the
other side this time. l know just what
will happen at Chicago. Wood will
have long lead on the first ballot
and then the favorite son managers
will steal up dark stairways and in
the seclusion of room at the Con-
gress Hotel draw lots to see which
favorite is to receive the combined
support.
They'll still be discussing it at
breakfast time, and having reached no
agreement, will march meekly into the
convention hall in time to take part
in the Leonard Wood stampede"
Mathematics of Situation
Senator Moses talked at length on
the so-called mathematics of the stu
alton, and fully lived up to the repu-
tatlon he won some years ago of being
an. actuarial politician" Of the 1000
delegates to the convention, 1872 will
be delegates large. and of this num-
Der, he said, those who are not for
Wood will be left severely alone.
But the Wood leaders are absolutely
confident that huge majority of the
district delegates, pledged perhaps to
some favorite son, have Leonard Wood
as their second choice, and will exer-
else their voting privilege in that
direction as soon as the courtesies OF
the situation have been disposed of.
Senator Moses has no fear of the
Coolidge boom, even though it serves
to divide New England on the Wood
question.
Admiration for Governor Coolidge's
determined stand for law and order
undoubtedly would give him strons
foothold in New Hampshire" says th9
Senator, "but for the fact that New
hampshire has candidate of its own
whose attitude on Governor Coolidge's
chief issue is just as strong and ever
more. widespread in its demon
strations."
League To Be Issue
The Senator believes no power or
earth can keep the peace treaty, with
its league of nations covenant, from
becoming an issue of the 1920 cam.
paign.
"If it is ratified by that time" he
says, "the issue will be to serve notice
on the incoming administration to get
out Immediately. Ii it is not ratified
the issue will be to stay out. The
pussyfooters will get licked next year
just as they were licked in 1896, wher
they failed to keep the word gold out
of the Republican platform.
Before next fall the people are going
to hear more about the treaty and les.
OF the covenant Of the league of ma
tions. To date 80 per cent of the dis
cussion has been on the twenty-six ar.
ticles of the league of nations and only
10 per cent on the Ala articles of the
treaty of peace.
eff we take the league we can get
out at any time. If we take the treaty
we are tied up with every European
squabble until 1861. If l had to choose
between the two would take the cove
nant."