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HARD|NGLEADS
AS y. ?. CHOICE
0hioan Acceptable to Johnson,
Wood and lowden Managers.
Won't Run for Senate.
~ A. O. HAYWARD.
International News Service.

CHICAGO, June 10.-Senstor War
rem q. Harding, OF Ohio. can have the
nomina tion for Vice President
he is the choice OF managers OF the
johnson. Wood. and Lowden cam
paigns.
Ohio is debatabie ground. Its cleo
torate vote will be sought eagerly by
each OF the leading parties. Hard
ing's friends say he can carry Ohio.
Senator Harding, IL cas- stated this
morning, has decided to take his
chances before the National Conven-
tion, will announce that he Is not
a candidate for reelection to the
Senate.
Harding must notify the Secretary
OF State OF Ohio by tomorrow night
whether he will seek denomination
for the United States Senate. The
Ohio law provides "A candidate shall
give sixty days notice by Ming a
certificate OF candidacy before the
date OF the primaries.
Can't Seek Two Offices.
The law provides that no candidate
shall seek two elective offices at the
same time. The Republican legisla-
ture, at its recent session, sought to
relieve Harding OF this difficulty by
having the primary law changed
so as to require only forty-nve days
notice OF candidacy.
Governor James L. Cox. Democrat.
vetoed the proposed change.
Harding Is in the night for the
Presidency. Based on the results OF
polls taken by his campaign mana
gers, Harding announced today, he
was the second choice of a majority
of the delegates to the convention.
c. Aof fA q
kill off each other and no one of them
prove strong enough to win. Harding
believes he can get the nomination as
head of the ticket.
stu Flirting With seeoad Place.
But the Senator has not rejected
overtures that have been made to him
by managers of the leaders of the
campaigns to accept second place on
the ticket. He is the only one OF the
leading candidates who has not shied
from the Vice Presidency. or an.
nounced positively that its offer would
not be accepted.
The johnson and Wood men are
most active in trying to win Harding
to their ticket. The Lowden men are
favorable to the Ohioan. All have
their eyes on the Ohio electorate vote,
which was captured four years ago
by Wilson.
Harding faces a bitter fight for re-
nominate for the Senatorship. Fac.
tional feeling in Ohio as a result of
the Wood Harding contest for dele
gates to the national convention and
other local conditions, have piled W
on Harding a burden for the Sena- :
torial primaries which many OF his
friends believe too heavy for him to
carry. This may have Influenced him
to his reported decision to stake his
political future on the national con-
vention.
He will accept the vice Presidency,
it is believed generally, il he cannot
land the Presidency.
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But there is always the same old
doubt as to how much these people
will stand for. When you think OF
the prices they pay for round steak
and the way they get home from
work at night, 1t looks as IL they
would stand for anything, but every
once in a while somebody leans too
hard on that idea and it blows up
with him and there you are, for that
is all there is to this convention sit
uation.
1t is nice to make large gobs of
fresh green money and make 1t rap
idly, but the fact seems to be that
when you make it in other ways than
right out on the level the sooner or
later somebody is due for a swat
from the pile.
When George NJ. Pullman was stor-
ing in his vaults the juicy produce
Of the printing press that turned out
his stocks and bonds it never occurred
to him that an analysis of his pc
culiar methods might some day keep
son-in-law OF his out Of the presi-
dency. But that seems to be the way
OF II. Because you know, IL you have
ever looked over the Pullman story,
that analysis wouldn't lock just
pretty IL exhibited on what at this
time of the year we are accustomed
to call the hustings. What?
First convention day the delegates
we're entertained at luncheon by tne
kind Snd generous beef trust. Secono
day they were entertained at lunch-
con by the liberal steel trust 10
day ought to be Standard OiIs DAY
and then. IL we can hear next from
the Southern Pacific Railroad, tine
Morgan allies and the Corn Exchange
Bank crowd. how sweet ana ioVely it
will be. For thus can we prove 10
the world the democratic spirit OF our
rulers and at the same time give
every group in big business an even
sbance to boom the candidate that
ia its own white-haired boy. and what
could be nicer? ,.
Resides, 1t shows an improvement
In our manners. That old rough stun
Of Yelling at the delegates, wake up.
Won sons OF sea-cooks, and vote aye"
what crude work that seems by
comparison.
wouldn't for my life seem TO
strike a note inharmenious with this
sweet music OF the troughs, but
would you mind, gentlemen. ~ l
should mention--very softly-that
last week, according to report from
New York, tho Government of the
United states borrowed slbo,ooo.ooo
at ~ per cent interest. and that this
fact is about a million times more
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important than the most exquisite
consomme your fascinating enter
tainers are likely to serve to you.
Also than anything they, you, or this
convention is likely to do or say?
1t is well, OF course, to have good
luuncheons, but it also is rather es-
sential to have a country in which
to cat them. 1t is well that each
group OF deserving fnanciers should
have it's own candidate for the Presi-
dency, but IL is a good deal better to
know how for the next two years the
national house is to be kept from
falling about our ears.
About once in every twentyfour
hours Rumor, shaking his portentous
locks, comes forth to tell us in agi-
tated whispers that it is all over but
tho shouting and that Sproul is the
man that has been decided upon be-
tween the Congress Hotel and that
ample and famous bedside in Phila-
deIphia. In the morning gentlemen
upon whom this form of alteration
laws hold pronounce the name Of the
new world-beater as Sproul. at noon
they call it Sprool. and at night they
make it Quito be Sprole.
And dost thou think, o reasoning
spirit, II such there be left. that these
wise old guys that have been doing
nothing for thirty or forty years but
play this game to win, do you think
they will go to the bat with a man
like that? When they would have to
start one night school to teach people
how to pronounce his name and an
other to explain who in the devil he
is7
They will when they all go dotty
and the frozen bosom OF Henry Cabot
Lodge thaws to a human emotion.
Taine once remarked about Abra-
ham Coatley. the English poet, that
he was most wonderfully and per-
fectly endowed with every facility
for saying everything. but he had pre-
cisoly nothing to say. Similarly the
gentlemen that have rugged up the
convention hall with sound-carricrs
and all that have ixed IL so that
everybody can hear everything per-
fectly, but there has been SO far
nothing to hear.
Mr.. Gompers and the American Fed
Grafton of Labor delegation have been
trying today to recall the wandering
attention OF tho managers OF this
pleasant gathering to the fact that
the great majority OF the people Of
this country earn their daily bread
by working for u.
should think that delegation
might have a fat CHANCE
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ny WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS,
Internatfosaal News Service.

CHICAGO. June 1o.-Gov. William
C. Sproul, OF Pennsylvania, has had .
long and weighty conversation with
Senator Boies Pcnrose, OF the same
Commonwealth. In consequence, the
third day Of the Republican National
Convention ushered in the beginning
Of a cyclonic drive for Sproul as =
candidate for the nomination.
The Penrose plan Is to let the con-
yention run along-into next week, IL
possible--while a campaign of ed
ucatinR' the delegates as to the who
and why OF things proceeds, and in
,he end to put the governor OF Penn
sylvaniA over. perhaps.
The Sproul-Penrose conversation
was by telephone, Governor Sproul
being I'M Chicago and Penrose in
Philadelphia The telephone was not
tho ordinary one, plugged in through
q maze of exchanges operated by nice,
but inquisitive young ladies. II was
a leased wirc running from the now
famous room Ell in the Congress Ho-
rel hero to the bedchamber OF Senator
Penrosc in his Spruce street home in
the Quaker City.
Wants Ce~ventien To-day.
Governor Sproul is auartered at the
Blackstone Hotel here, a distance OF
several blocks from the Congress
down the lake boulevard. When sum-
moned, he went over to the Congress
and had his talk with Senator PEN
rose from there.
"A short convention would not fit In
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from the old guard II he gets it from

from the ola Suaru IL nc sceo ~ iioh'
them at all.
Senator Philander Knox, the once
Presidential preference of Penrose,
has not been entirely checked on,
according to Penrose's intimates. He
is being kept in the background,
especially for Senator Johnson's bene-
At, they say, and IL he insists upon
an "irreconcilable" as candidate
Knox may be trotted out again.
Here is the program of the Penrose
faction of the Republican party as
indicated today:
First to eliminate from the Presi-
Dental nomination Major General
Leonard Wood, Governor Lowden,
Senator Hiram Johnson and Senator
Warren G. Harding.
Second. to eliminate any of the more
promising Of the dark horses.
Third. to head-off split in the
party ranks.
Fourth, to "pacify" Senator john
son.
There is nothing set" or "fxed'
about these plans, Penrose's lieute-
nants confess. Their job Is to pick
a .winner," but, IL possible. from
among the regulars" of the @. o. p.
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PENR0SE GETS BEHIND SPROUL

with the plans of Senator Penrose and
the others OF the Republican old
guard behind him in the newly-sprung
Sproul boom
The governor is not as well known
as some others whose names are be-
fore the convention, and should bal
loting begin Immediately, the odds
against the Pennsylvanian, his friends
fear, would be too heavy for him to
overcome. Not only are mighty fac
tors pulling the strings, but a pub
licity department has been set up,
with well known editors directing IL,
and the work of educating" the con-
vention is on. Sproul badges. posters
and buttons made their appearance
for the first time on the streets last
night. The longer the show at the
Coliseum lasts, the more the hackers
OF Governor Sproul will be pleased,
they openly confess. They do not ex-
pect nominations to begin before Fri
day, IL then.
Expects Struggle On floor
A struggle on the floor OF the con-
vontion between Senator william e.
Borah, the ''frreconciIable" from
Idaho, and thos, Of the Republican
party who oppose plank in the
platform declaring against the Presi-
dents League of Nations in any form,
Is expected by the Penrose faction.
Senator Hiram Johnson, they believe,
will seize the chance thus offered and
come before tho convention. And in
the end. the general impression is
that Johnson will be given practically
everything he wants. save the nomin-
alton, which he will have to wrcst
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ORYS DEMAND
LAW ENFORCED
Will Insist on Plank PIedging
Rigid Adherance to Pro-
hibition Amendment.
By DAVID NJ. CHURCH.
Istersatis News Service.

CHICAGO. June l0.-The Repub-
lican National Convention isn't going
to tackle the liquor question In the
open, according TO the statement to-
day OF the most enthusiastic OF dry
ieaders-Wayne b. Wheeler, general
counsel OF the Anti-saloon League.
We will get a law and order plank
In the platform that they can't dodge"
said Wheeler. 81 don't believe that
there will be any mention of the pro-
hibition question In the platform, but
there Is certainly going TO be a plank
calling for law and order and the en-
forcement OF the laws that are on the
statute books, and the Supreme Court
hasn't left whit of doubt as to
whether the prohibition amendment
is rightfully on the statute books"
Want .Rixht" Candidate.
Wheeler. with a small army of
dry" workers, Is one of the busiest
individuals in Chicago. and while he
Is frank to admit that he hasn't found
hordes of the delegates who are cheer
ing loudly for his cause. he declares
that he has found but a very few who
were ready to announce that they
would fight prohibition in either the
convention or the committees. Rep
resentatives OF the Anti-Saloon League
are here from every State and are'
working with the State delegations.
I'VE aren't paying any attention to
the candidates" said Wheeler; that
isn't our business. We don't want 10
get into that end of the political
game, but you can set 1T down that
we are looking them over and we
want only a candidate who Is right
1.-THE big fellows are all right on
prohibition-the ones who have
chance. or course. there are some OF
these who haven't chance. like DIR.
Nicholas Murray Butler and Senator
France, that are against us and we
would have to fight them If they had
a chance, but we won't have to waste
our energies in that direction.
Law and Order Plank.
"Any candidate who feels that he
wants to come out on a platform for
repeal of the prohibition law won't
get our sympathy of course, but he
Is within his rights and offers us Q
fair fight, and we are ready to meet
those men on their own ground and
let the people decide, but we are cer-
tainly against any man who wants
the prohibition laws 'winked at
Law and order is a big issue. 1t
is going to be made one of the promi-
nent planks in the Republican plat
form, / believe, and OF course now
that the prohibition laws have been
upheld the party that stands for law
and order must stand for strict en-
forcemene of the prohibition laws.
There are 81 States that are dry
by State laws. That is the answer
when any one inquiries whether tho
prohibition laws will be repealed"
II successful in securing a "law
and order plank in the Republican
platform, Wheeler and his party of
workers expect to move on to San
Francisco to conduct a fight against
those who may attempt to slip "wet"
plank into the Democratic platform.
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'Bugs'Baer
Looks 'Em Over
tcopyriSht. is.c.)
~ -DUGsS BAnR-

.s. .. CHICAGO, June 10.
sIx-DAr DELEGATE RACE.
ENGLISH TEAM-Hooysr and He-
KUN. |.-
ARMY TEAM-wood and Nobody.
PULLMAN TEAM-Lowden and
Wall street,
CALIFORNIA TEAM-Johnsoa and
the people.
League OF Nations.
End OF second day. 8 laps. Record
46o, 7e9 900 laps, established by Roose-
1912.
Teams OF Coolidge. Harding and
Poindexter were Tapped early In the
race and were eliminated from the
tournament.
Wise crackers claim present teams
are only pacemskers and that the
team OF Dark and Horse will cop the
biscuits.
Butler is a good man, but handi-
capped by partner.
Pullman team picked up q nail. BIZ
cycle sent to the bank for repairs.
Wood and Nobody started fast, but
sprinted the wrong way around the
Foreign team, Hoover and Hokum.
claim the American teams are pocket
ing en-
Race has simmered down to a
steady grind in an effort to hoe out
the weak delegates.
End of the ffftieth hour. laps.
Convention must be riding backward.
of nve-lap sprint won by Lowden
delegates.
johnson tried to steal a lap on the
field, but punctured tire on the ma
tional committee.
Hoover is using the needle.
End Of fifty-fifth hour. one and q
quarter laps. indicating the conven-
ton amt going nowhere.
Lodge appointed official announcer.
Delegates went to sleep on their
bikes.
Boise Penrose is warming up a new
team
Bill Bryan looking for chance to
throw box of carpet tacks on track.
Chauncey Depew chirps he could
lap the neld in a three-lesged Norris
chair.
Old Joe Cannon got sore and looped
out to see a real movie comedy.
End of stixtieth hour, no laps.
Somebody swiped Woods handle bars
and saddle.
Delegates get in jam on dangerous
concession turn and johnson claims
he will build a new track.
Looks like 1t will be the only six
day race that ever went two weeks.
End of sixty-second hour-race amt
IA p ed vet
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CENERALCROWDER
HELPING FOES OF
GEN WOOD ,

CHICAGO. June 1o.-MaJ. Gen.
Enoch Crowder, judge advocate
general and leader of the anti
Wood faction. in the army, is here,
ostensibly as an, onlooKcr. He oc-
cupied a prominent seat in the
front row OF the special guests
section in the Coliseum yesterday.
Friends of Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood say General Crowder Is
working In quiet ways to injure
Wood, and that is the real purpose
of his presence.
General Crowder represents the
so-called West Point faction OF the
army.
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Pullman Car Shadolu
Is Pail Ouer Louuder1
By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL.
written Expressly Internatsnsl News Service

CHICAGO June 1o.-At this moment there is nothing be-
Frank Lowden and the White House out the snaoow OF
a sleeping car. ..
Is not this strange fact' certain gents that pngle down
the people of this country would stand for the Pullman
story as campaign ISSUE there wouldn't be enough of con
test to bet on for they would Lowden with bang He's
their ornhan Annie and always has BEEN
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A. e. COLES,
Mayor Of Venice.


Delegates Republican National Convention, Care Chi
cago Evening American
In urging delegates of your convention to nominate
Hiram johnson for the Presidency may point out that
criticism of the Senator by Eastern business men that
he is radical and would harm business If elected is
based apparently upon misconception AS merchant
of Venice wire to say that when Hiram johnson was
governor of this State he did to aid business big
and little, than any former governor in my time. This
attitude know is that also Of hundreds OF other busi
of this city. Big business and small business
could not choose better President look out for their
interests in progressive way Business in California
wants johnson as President. j ~
49, CLERToW HoLBRooK,
Butcher and Grocer.
Delegates Republican National Convention, Care Chi
cago Evening American:
Business men of California want johnson Presi-
dent we never had governor who aided business as
johnson did We repudiate suggestions of politicians
in other States that he is radical in the usually
cepted of the term He is Progressive but every
business that successful today is progressive He is
sane and level headed and would be the best tonic for
business in this country imaginable. He is business
mans man.
ssNominate him. is the plea all business men of
this section send to you.
CHARLES A. SHORT,
School Trustee and Retired Stationer
., LOS ANGELES, Cal, June g.
Delegates Republican National Convention, Care Chi
cago Evening American:
As governor of California Hiram Johnson was Just
and fair to all business nerestsas even the railroads
realized after he had been in office for term Large
financial and commercial interests have nothing fear
from johnson If they seek than square deal
He is most decidedly Progressive and not radical
GEORGE J. BIRKEL
President George Birkel Company
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Brisbane's Ringside Story
. OF Yesterday's Session of
Republican Convention
the dark horses.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE,
international News Service.)

CONVENTION HALL. CHICAGO.
June 9.-11 80 a. m.-The prayer and
"Ths Star-Spangled Banner" are over.
and . heavy man is reading the re-
port on credentials. Mr.. Lodge.
changed since yesterday from tenn
porary to permanent chairman, looks
better and more cheerful this morn
ing. The machine is reported to be
working we'll. A really enthusiastic
cheer, FIRST Of the convention, greets
tho selection Of Lodge as permanent
chairman.
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California Business Men
In Tslsgrams to ConDention ,
Demand Hiram Johnson

CHICAGO Io-Tssgrus from California business
Rspuboan today continued
prestige remarkably The messages m
Clearly hh haze tho
integrity Judgment Johnson Some Of the egras foi0~;
SANTA BARBARA, Cal, June g.
Delegates Republican National Convention, Care CHI
cago Evening American:
Business are not fearful of the kind OF whole
some radicalism Hiram johnson stands for The ma
jority of them in California want him President.
GEORGE McCOMBER
Real Estate
VENICE, Cal, June g.
Delegates Republican National Convention, Care Chi
cago Evening American
Venice is business city Of California and Venice
wants johnson for President am druggist in pri-
vate life myself, and when, mayor Of Venice wire
that know the attitude Of business men here you may
realize that making most serious plea for you
to nominate Hiram Johnson. Business in California
trusts Hiram johnson implicitly, and business here
urges you and Eastern business men to back Johnon
to the limit johnson as President will be beneficial
to business in the country johnson governor was
to the State he is Progressive, true but he abhors
socaled radicalism of the direct action type as much
as his bitterest enemies johnson as President means
raooI hvoiuoo
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Some of the delegates arc not
taking any chances in the rude and
uncultured city.
They are armed to the hip.
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RyMOus.

A rumor in an oil town
Sets the populacc ahama,
But a rumor IN lobby
Nakes an oil bosm meak and tnRAs
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who pays the food bills for the
dark horses?
A dark horse is not picked for his
ability to run. It's because he is easy,
to ride.
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THE CRITICAL Sen.

She gazed upon the candidate;
1t caused her heart TO palpitato
with enmity she had not felt before;
She lamped him with a clammy eve
And scornfully she passed him byi
she did not like the necktie that he
wore.
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ENTHUSIASM.

ENTHUSIASM.
A delegate from a distant state
Was feeling blythe and gay; ...
In accents loud above the crowd
He chccred: "Hic, hic, hooray.'
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Inside politics are much like inside
bas sebali. Some husky birds may
knock a home run and gum up the
works.
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Some Nut Poems
Serued With a Bit of
Epigrammatic Fudge
by GEORGE PHAIR,
,us Author of ssBreakfast Food"

Fanous Author of "Brc0b<fast rood
written Expressly for International News
Service.)
Chicago, June TO-
ELOQUENCE-
The orator was spelling;
His voice rang to the ceiling
And echoed loud
Above the crowd
In accents most appealing.
The hours were slowly creeping
While eloquence was sweeping
From wall to wall, and through IL all
The delegates were sleeping.
The keynote oration was total loss.
The world knows that the keynote
Of the convention is the banknote.
Delegates sit up and take notice
when John Dough makes speech.
The old reliable lake breeze lowered
for a moment over the Coliseum and
quit its job.
whats the use?" it said.
To some it is a wild, sweet song,
while others brought their wives
along.
The debate over the League OF
Nations will be welcomed by three
rousing cheers.
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The keynote Grafton was total loss.
The world knows that the keynote
of the convention is the banknote.
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To some it is wild, sweet song,
while others brought their wives
along.
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Just now the wonderful old man is
amusing himself with Woodrow Will
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Delegates sit up and take notice
when John Dough makes speech.
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End OF sf1ty-second hour-race an
started yet
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The debate over the League OF
Nations will be welcomed by three
rousing cheers.
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johnson tried to steal a lap on the
field. but punctured a tire on the ma
tional committee.