The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-04-15
ILLINOIS CONTEST
IS WOOD MISTAKE
General Is SAID to Have No
Chance. to Win Delegates
ane. Standing May Not
Improve Big Fight.
lRY MARK suLLlyANa


Copyright, 1920. by N. Y. Evening Post.
Inc. and The iouS City Tribune.
New York, April 13.--If General
Wood got as much De 10 per cent Of
thu total votes cast in Illinois today
he viii have done better than his
managers have any reason to expect.
If he gets less than 33 per cent the
result will be interpreted by the public
generally as a diminution of his pres
tige in the middle west.
That General Wood should be con-
testing with Governor Lowden In the
primaries of the latter's home state
represents a political error on his
part. General Wood cannot possibly
get any of the delegates and such
votes as he gets in the popular pri-
mary will be based on small local
areas of disaffection against Lowden
rather than on affirmative strength
on General Woods part.
Illinois Leaders Back Lowden.
Illinois it is true, was a strong
Roosevelt state, but most of the old
Roosevelt leaders in the state signify
that Governor Lowden is sufficiently
progressive to be satisfactory to them
~ 0Ato "a - VA 10
true that Governor .Lowden's CONSOLE
dation of the state government de-
partment's caused some disaffection
in all sections of the state. but the
state organization as a whole is fair
ly solid behind Governor Lowden.
In Chicago, Mayor Thompson main
tains a city organization independent
of the state organization and at the
time Woods managers determined to
make the contest in Illinois, they may
have hoped to be the beneficiary OF
the local Chicago organization.
But it is apparent that the state and
city organizations have come to a
truce between Wood and Lowden.
There is competition. of course, but no
real issues of a mind to appeal to the
Individual voter as there are between
Wood and Johnson.
Johnson is not running in Illinois.
WOOD MAKES APPEAL.
Chicago, April 13.--Illinois news
apers today carried two full page,
last minute appeals to the electorate
of the state from the campaign COM
mittees Of Major General Leonard
Wood and Governor Frank o. Low
den.
The burden of the Wood notice was
his:
"The ~favorite son idea and blind
p~artisanship should have nothing to
do with this question:
The Lowden answer in equally as
large type contends that:
Loyalty says vote for Lowden."
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ALL SO FOR LoWDEN?
New York April 13.-Some repub-
lican leaders gathered here yesterday
made the remark that Coy. Lowden
will be offered to the Chicago con-
vention as the harmony candidate"
And. it may be stated, this has been
the objective Of the Illinois executives
supporters all along. His. campaign
has been a studied, quiet one, without
the bitterness and invective featuring
the more fiery efforts OF his rival
candidates. He has refused to be
drawn into any vigorous discussion
Of his campaign expenses. but has
quietly offered to submit his detailed
expenditures n the source Of the
money used if the other candidates
would do likewise. He has laid no
claims to the robe of the late Col
Roosevelt. though one visiting his
home may see in his private study
pictures of the colonel. bearing in
scriptions which testify to the lat
ter's intimate friendship and esteem
of the %Illinoisan.
Today Illinois holds it's primary and
Lowden will get the 5S delegates, un-
less all signs fail. These, couISe ed with
instructed delegates from other states
will permit him to go before the Chi
cago convention with 100 or more
votes quietly ready for action.
There he will pursue the same
course he has pursued in the cam
paign-a harmony lets get together
position, which friends Of Lowden are
counting on more strongly than any.
thing else to bring him a victory GU
of a heated convention cauldron.
WILSON TAKES RIDE.