The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-06-11

vention tomorrow is upset and thrown
into doubt.
1t meets at II o'clock and has moth
ing further before it except to hear
the report of the Resolutions Com
: mittee, adopt a platform and nomi-
nate candidates. One plan has been
proposed to skip the platform until
) the committee is ready to report and
go ahead with the dominating speech
es. Those who propose 1t maintain it
is possible to do so under the rules of
today, which provided for unfinished
) business" at the bottom of the. list Of
procedure. They contend the plat
form could be considered the unfnish-
ed business and the convention could
get the nominations out of the way
without remaining idle while the Res
olutions Committee fights out the
league ISSUE.
The Wood and Lowden people par
ticularly express themselves as unal-
terably opposed to that plan of pro
cedure. 1t could of course be done
under suspension of the rules which
would require unanimous consent, but
the Wood people say they would OBJ
ject to it. A recess until the Resoiu..
tons Committee work is done seems
to be one solution.
Knox Boom Revived
Meanwhile the Knox boom has been
revived and during the day it, of all
the dark-horse booms, seemed to have
some new momentum, always taking
into consideration the common idea
that the convention will turn to other
fields if johnson, Lowden and Wood
fail to show strength promising ma
jority soon after the first few bal
lots. A story characterized by Sena-
tor Johnson, through one of his lieu
tenants, as absolutely ridiculous" was
much discussed.
This story ran that if no nomina-
ton was reached up to the fifth bal
lot Senator Johnson would lay his can
didacy aside if the convention would
grant to him and Senator Borah I'M
| limited time to discuss the candidates.
and pre-convention campaign expend-
itures of Wood and Lowden. The other
angle of the story was that Senator
Knox would be brought out as can
didate at that juncture. Coupled with
the general knowledge of close rela-
tionship between Senators johnson
and Knox and their irreconcilable po-
sition together against a league in any
form, this story furnished the most
interesting piece of gossip of the day,
although it was thrown down by Sem
ator Johnson.
Wood Talk Grows
Wood talk, which began running in
stronger tide last night, seemed not
to disturb the johnson managers. A
conference of dozen or more john
son advisers late today, it was said,
decided on a policy of attempting no
trades or alliances until the start of
break from Wood to Lowden, for
which they hope, Their strategy, 1t
was explained, was to leave the Wood
and Lowden forces to carry on their
own contest and leave the johnson
forces ready to take advantage of any
weakness which might develop. The
johnson advisers also predict there
will be no hurried break of Johnson
instructed delegates away from the
Senator after they have performed
their obligations by voting for him on
the first ballots. ''' ''
Johnson Can Hold Delegates .
Reports that the johnson instruct
ed delegates from Michigan were
if johnson failed in the first few bal
lots, put the Johnson managers at
work starting back-fres at home, and
some of the Michigan delegates were
said to be getting kilograms inform
ing them they were expected to stick
to the Californian. The Senator's ad-
visers said they were confident he
could hold his delegates until he re-
leased them. |
johnson leaders, too, it was caid,
were working to convince the large !
delegation Of Eastern business men
who have gathered here favoring other
candidates., that Senator johnson is
not the radical and dangerous man to
business interests that he has been
represented.
They hope, if they can make head !
way with this program, it will be cas-
Ter to bring the old line people to
johnson if Lowden and Wood fail to
poll majority. The Johnson people, |
too, express indignation ct repeatedly |
published newspaper reports that |
johnson will bolt and head third |
party if he fails of nomination. he is |
standing, they say, on his earlier dec
larations that he is engaged only in |
family row, which will be ended when |
the convention chooses candidate, |
and that he will stand by the conven-
tion's decision.
Protracted Session |
: The confusion over tomorrows pro-
gram and delay in the platform
brings out an array of guesses on how
long the convention will have to SIT.
Go Allen of Kansas, who is to nomi-
nate Gen. Wood, said today he did not
expect the nominating speeches would
be reached before Friday, and that the
balloting would not be started before
Saturday. He looked for protracted
session Of the Resolutions Committee.
From today's preliminary arrange
ments it appeared that the Wood NOM
mating speech would come first. Ala
bama, alphabetically first in the call I
for nominations, it was said, would
yield neither for nomination of /
Wood or Lowden, preferring not to
show any preference. The next state