New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-27
Wood and Johnson Men
Regard New jersey as
Principal battle-ground
in the Primary Poll
General Expects
IL Ohio Delegates
Bay State to Coolidge
and Washington's Ia
Will Go for Poindexter

Politicians of the country will close
ly scrutinize and analyze the. result
of the primaries and conventions in
four states which to-day will choose
1875 delegates to the Republican Ma
tional convention
Interest centers in the battles in
Ohio, Massachusetts and New jersey.
where delegates will be chosen in di-
rect primaries. In WASHINGTON the
delegates will be chosen in a state con-
venton.
The result in Ohio and New Jersey
probably will have a vital bearing on
the further progress of General Leon
ard Woods campaign. In Ohio, Sena-
tor Warren G. Harding. an avowed
candidate for the Republican nouina-
tlon, is fighting for clean s1eep of
the fortyeight delegates, his sup
porters arguing that as a "favorite
son" candidate he is entitled to them.
Supporters of General Wood are press
ing the contest there so hard the
Harding men in some instances have
urged friends Of Senator Hiram W.
Johnson to write in the name of the
Californian, as was done in Chicago,
where johnson polled more than 40
600 votes.' The Harding men believe
That If the organized labor vote in the
Republica organization can be in
duced to write in the name of Senator
johnson the diversion of this element
in the Republican strength will come
more largely from Wood than from
Harding, and that Harding will be
the gamer
Wood Men Hope for Twelve
The Wood men will be satisfied if
they elect twelve of the forty eigh {
delegates. The Wood managers argue
that if they can get quarter of the
delegation it will demonstrate that
Senator Harding is weak in his own
state. The trouble with the Wood
campaign in Illinois was that there
were no candidates for delegates in
the aield, and when all was said and
done all they had to show for their
hard work was plurality vote in ten
Congressional districts. but no dele
gates, as the Lowden and Thompson
machines had named the delegates. In
Ohio the situation is different, the
Wood men having candidates in each
district
The contest in New Jersey is one of
the bitterest ever staged there. In the
beginning the Republican organizati on
was almost solidly for General Wood.
The Wood supporters asked prospec-
tive delegates to pledge themselves for
Wood. United States Senators Freling-
huysen and Edge refused, saying they
would abide by the state preferential
vote. Thercupon the Wood organizers
named big Four" Of Wood men
John W. Griggs, Ex-Governor Stokes
ex Governor RunyoE and City Com>
missioner Raymond, of Newark. Along
came the Johnson men, looking for a
chance to get a foothold. They de-
cided it would be good politics to name
Senator'S Frelinghuysen and Edge, on
account of their known strength in the
organization, and they also named
Mulford Ballard, Of Newark, and
Thomas D. Layden, of Paterson, to
make out their own Big Four" slate.
Rival Claims in Jersey
The Wood managers expect to clec,
at least twenty of the twenty-six dele
/ gates. Johnson's managers say they
will sweep the state, capture all OF
the delegates-at-larg and elect theil
candidates in the nine districts in which
/ they are opposing the Wood men. The
/ Wood men admit that the Johnson mer
/ probably will win in the Hudson Coun
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