New-York tribune., 1920-05-23
Candidates Are
Partly Closing g
/. ! Bureaus Here
Wood, Johnson, Butler and
HooverHeadquartersHave
4. Virtually Ended Their
y Activities in New York
Contest Shifts to Chicago
General to Address New
IA Jersey, V m ont and
Massachusetts, Delegates

on Active work at the local headouarter.
OF the four candidates for the Republi-
Can Presidential nomination who main
tain Offices here has practically ceased
The large suites of rooms will be
abandoned before the end of the week
and room or two is all that any of
them will maintain here from the end
of this week until the delegates make
the nomination at Chicago
General Wood, who closed tour of
West Virginia yesterday, after which
he started for Chicago. is expected to
reach his headquarters here. in the
Hotel Imperial on Tuesday. After
conferences with Representative Nor
man j. Gould and former Representa-
tive Thomas w. Miller. his Eastern
managers, Wood will go to Newark or
Trenton to address the New Jersey
delegates.
Wood Addresses Scheduled
On Wednesday, General Wood will
speak to the Vermont delegation, and
the following day he will make an
address to the Massachusetts delega-
ton.
Little activity is expected at either
the Johnson, the Butler, or the Hoover
headquarters here next week. But all
are looking to a strenuous time of it
IN Chicago the following week
IN tact, there already has been con-
siderable work done at Chicago by the
managers not only of these three can
dldates, but by the directors of the
campaigns of the other aspirants for
the Republican nomination.
The johnson people plan a big pa
in IA,
also are planning to impress the con-
vention delegates with the sentiment
for their standard bearer. Hoovers S
friends have forty-two separate state
organizations throughout the country
talking Hoover and working for him.
Groups of college women have hit
upon the idea of loading down the
delegates with petitions from their con-
Stituents urging them to vote for
Hoover. In all there are more than
1000 sparate Hoover organizations
throughout the country. All these have
been working under the supervision of
their local state Headquarters
At all local headquarters of the can
didates there was considerable talk of
the subp9nas issued for most of the
managers, Republican and Democratic.
to tell the Senate committee of the
campaign expenditures. Without ey
been subDpnaed declared they would be
only too glad to tell what they know
Of the campaign expenditures.
Hoover Agreement Denied
For weeks story has been going
the rounds that Frank A. Eanderlip, on
behalf of Herbert Hoover had prom
lsed General Wood that Hoover would
swing his support to Wood after the
first two ballots in Chicago. The story
said the promise was made on March s.
This was denied yester rdaY by Miller.
mo such promise was made nor was
any agreement of that sort entered into
between General Wood and Mr.. Hoover
or by any one representing either Mr..
Hoover or General Wood" said Miller.
"Certalnly none was made on March ..
Tor | wa with the general all tina:
day. We do, however, consider the
action of Mr.. Hoover in urging his
campaign managers in Oregon to sup
port a candidate who stoed for the
league of nations with reservations as
an Endorsement of General Wood This
action showed that Mr.. Hoover was
more concerned in having the league
of nations with reservations ratified by
this country than he was in getting the
nomination for himself OF, for that
matter, any one else"
Miller said there had been protests
by some of the Wood delegates in the
New York delegation against the effor
OF local leaders to hold the entire SO
to voting for Nicholas Murray Butler
on the first ballot.
"Thcse delegates" said Miller, "pro-
to force any delegate to vote for any
one of her than his choicnD