Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-06-06
PREPARATION
Of PLATFORM
IS WORRYING.
REPUBLICANS.
Industrial Relations Plank,
Which Some Leaders In
sIst Upon Including, Is
Loaded With Dynamite.
NATIONS LEAGUE ALSO
IS CAUSE OF CONCERN
Party Whips Agree That the
Convention Can't Do 9th
erWiSe Than Back Up the
Stand of Senate Leaders.

tsT MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wtREl
Chicago, June (by the Asso-
ciated Press The contest be-
tween the various aspirants for the
republican presidential nomination
is momentarily obscured by pre-
liminary contests over the plat
form.
One is the league of nations
plank and the other is the indus
trial relations plank. The latter is
acknowledged to be loaded with
dynamite and the former is so sur
rounded by counter claims that 1t
has been arranged, and that it has
not been arranged, that the real
truth of the situation is not ap-
parent.
Most of all the practical poll
ticians, however, were predicting
today that any coalition of party
leaders which presents the success
full solution for the league of ma
tions plank would be able TO nomi-
nate their candidate for the presi-
dency.
The league of nations plank in
the Indiana state republican plat
form brought here by Senator
Watson, who is the foremost can
didate for chairman of the resolu-
tionS committee, seems to be the
nucleus around which the discus
sion is oontering and it may pro-
vide the basis for the agreement.
II declares in effect that the re-
publican party denounces the
league Of nations covenant as it
was brought from Versailles by
President Wilson but it does not
close the door to its acceptances
with reservations.
Seek to Bring About Harmony.
At that point the reservationists
of various degrees and the irrecon-
cilables appear as the elements to
he brought into harmony. Most of
the party whips seem to be agreed
that the convention cannot take
any action which could be con-
strued as a reputation of the re-
publican leaders in the senate.
Compromise seems to be inevitable
and the predictions of the field
marshals is that the convention
will develop the candidate.
On the side lines of the big
fight there is scrimmage going on
between the leaders of the party in
congress and the leaders of the
partv throughout the country.
Many of the latter have come to
Chicago openly expressing the feel
ing that senators and representa-
tives have had too much to say in
the decisions of the partys affairs
and that some consideration must
be given to the chieftains from the
provinces. The statement by Gov
ernor Beeckman of Rhode Island
that he was not sure whether he
was going to "a republican conven-
ton or a senatorial caucus" has
been construed as notice from
the governors and state leaders
that they will demand to be heard.
Judging by their degree of pre-
convention activity, Wood, Lowden
and Johnson might properly be de-
signated the big three" On one
proposition their managers are
fully agreed. They all claim vic
tory. They differ on how it is to |
he achieved or on what ballot it is |
to be, but they assure all inquirers |
there is no doubt about 1t.
"IIis Masters Voice."
Seventy-two hours before Sen
ator Lodges gavel drops in the big |
Coliseum a composite talking ma
chine record of the expressions of
the managers would say:
I'VE are perfectly satisfied with
the situation. The strength of our
candidate is steadily increasing"
The sentiment expressed on the
street, presumably reflecting the
views of the men up the tree are as
many and as varied as the number
of candidates. One hears with the
greatest degree of finality Low
den or a dark-horse" and johnson
after the third ballot" or Wood
after all the others have been elm
mated"
Accurate Forecast Impossible.
Convention time brings to Chica-
go a small army of writer's who
feel by analyzing the cross-cur
rents In the muddy and turbulent
stream which swirls about the no.
tel lobbies and in and out Of the
inner coves of the campaign man.
ayers office, they can discern the
cruise of the tides and predict with