Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-06-01
Contest for
Delegates Hot
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are beginning to stir about the head
ouarters of the presidential candidates
and their managers. Chicago hotels,
already overcrowded with an abnor-
NAL business, are beginning to show
the first symptoms of a campaign
week of noise and confusion. Head
ouarters are blossoming out with ban
ners, but the campaign managers
Nave not vet emerged from the state
Of confident predictions. Only two of
tbe candidates, Governor Lowden and
Major General Wood are in the city,
but Senator Harding and Senator
Johnson will arrive late in the week.
Estimates of the probable duration
Of the convention are as numerous as
The candidates are various. Some con-
iident ones have made railroad reser-
yations to return home on Thursday
Of convention week. The prediction
that presidential candidate probably
will be nominated Friday night and
vce-presidential candidate Saturday
seems to be regarded among most Of
the politicians as probably being more
accurate than any other.
The generally accepted tentative
program seems to be Tuesday for tenn
porary organization and keynote
speeches; Wednesday for permanent
organization and work Of the resolu-
tons committee framing the platform
leaving Thursday and Friday for bal
lOting if two. days be needed.
All the politicians seem agreed that
no one is going to be nominated on
the first ballot Many Of them are go
ing so far as to make predictions of
what is going to happen on the first
second and third. Then come the SAN
guine predictions of what is going to
happen on the fourth.
lttook three ballots in 1915 to nom
mate Charles Evans Hughes and that
was the first time since 1896 that
more than one ballot had been reqliir-
ed toenominate a candidate. In 1900
and 1904 the nominations were made
by acclamation.
Wood Conference Postponed.
Senator George H. Moses of New
hampshire, Major General Woods
eastern campaign manager, announc-
ca this morning that the proposed |
conference of Wood managers would
not be held until after the contest
hearings are completed
NO one has yet been chosen, the
senator said, to manage General
woods campaign on the convention
floor
Harry Daugherty, Senator Warren
= Harding's campaign manager, ar
IlVed today and took charge Of the
harding headquarters here.
Wood Delegates Favored
In the District of Columbia con-
TEST the committee voted to seat the
segularly reported delegates, Frank
:. hogan and James A. Cobb of
Washington, D. C. Committeeman
novel; of Nebraska, characterizing
me whole contest as a .'disgraceful
s'lalr sought to have all three dele
sauons thrown out. but his motion |
was lost. MA.
hogan, and Cobb are. uninstructed
pa' are said to favor the candidacy
v ueneral Wood. The committee then
',s'efted to the three cornered Flor |
"s contest. Committeeman Warren |
maue the report of subcommittee
" \, sne law and the facts. Some OF the
s"i'aa attorneys, however. were not
.sauy TO go on and the committee
.aineo to the Georgia contest which
p,0lnised y to be the most sensational
y me crop. The regularly reported
,,s,ssa'lon headed by. Henry Lincoln
ssaason, an Atlanta negro, was OPP
~ cSseo by a delegation headed by |
saafles Adamson Of Cedarville.
- rs'osn as the Roscoe Pickett faction.
= Is t1ckett faction has been support.
a's 'he Wood candidacy.
Florida Case First
Il snlcago, June Hearings on the
s.a'ns OF contesting delegations to
+. ~ weeks convention continued to- !
- Q occupy the. attention of the
''eaoliean national committee.
a. aecision in the three cornered |
- .'sa' N Florida was first ON the pro-
= s,>'h and next came the three corner !.
\. = contest from the District of Column
: =. special subcommittee compos-
! i u committeeman Warren Of Mich |
ssa saa' DUPONT Of Delaware and Par
- - o. New York spent most Of the
h. IS examining the law and facts in
-. 1'Oflda case. and prepared a re- !,
- ~ On the claims of the contestants
49, -. possibly a Recommendation for q
sss o. action by the committee.
al me Florida case. In which the COM
49, 49,, was called upon to decide
.her - there was. in legal effect.
- ~ sspuolican party in Florida. prom ,
,s,.. ~ sense to show the first indl- |
ns Oils on the candidacy of Major
zai sai Leonard Wood, Governor
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80, ssls OF the three conteaflng dele
'ss+s s.'sas Is pledged but the various
..'esFs sax thar he first or reen-
tsRoFsea delegation headed .bg !
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