New-York tribune., 1920-03-13
Mood League
Opens Drive i'm
Philadelphia
Seeks to Make General Sec.
ond Choice of Pennsylva-
mia Delegates to Republi-
can National Convention
Governor Comes First
Plan to Give Sproul Conlpli-
mentary Vote and Then
Swing to the Army Man

A drive by the Wood men to make
General Wood the second choice of
the Pennsylvania delegates 70 the Chi
cago convention was started yesterday
IN Philadelphia. WHICH is to be GEN.
ter for vigorous campaign to be
waged all over the eastern part of the
state. The organization work is in
the hands of the Leonard Wood League.
The membership includes persons in
all walks of life, the idea being to
build public sentiment so strong that
the Keystone delegates after giving
Governor Sproul complimentary vote,
will swing to General Wood on the
second ballot.
Major r. r. Hogan, in charge of the
organization there, issued the follow
ing gall; -,
the proposition that the Pennsylvania
delegates to the next Republican Ma
tional Convention ought to be unani
nous in it's support of Governor Will
lam c. Sproul as its first choice for
the Republican nomination for Presi-
dent, and General Leonard Wood as it's
second choice. The business of the
league in the territory in which it op-
crates will be to organize sentiment
among Republicans for Leonard Wood
as Pennsylvania's second choice for the
Presidency, and to obtain the election
of delegates who will adhere to the
program here outlined"
War Veteran Head In League
A Leonard Wood league has been
crystallizing Wood sentiment in the
western part Of Pennsylvania some
months. Among the members of the
organization is Mary Roberts Rhine
hart, the writer. The organization also
includes the commander of the World
War Veterans.
AS indicating what he said was q
clear indication Of the drift Of politi-
cal sentiment in Indiana, where all
four leading candidates are battling
for the delegates, Colonel Thomas W.
Miller, at the Imperial Hotel, said yes
terday that the number of signers to
the petitions filing notice Of candidacy
in the Indiana primaries was as fol-
lows: Wood, 22,907; Lowden, 1,4S4;
Harding, 1880; Johnson, 84S.
Governor Henry j. Allen of Kansas,
who was in town yesterday, told the
Wood managers sentiment in New
York. New Jersey and Massachusetts,
where he has been Of late, is strong
for General Wood.
Colonel Miller, yesterday, in discuss
ing the criticism Of the Lowden men
of the letter written by Representative
Norman j. Gould asking the Governor
10 define his stand on the issue Of uni
versal military training. said it was a
legitimate question. He added:
"The letter was extremely courteous
n tone, and, coming from a member Of
the House of Representatives who was
Il member OF the platform committee
of the New York Republican State
Convention, which declared for univer-
sal training, it was intended to obtain
from Governor Lowden an answer to
a question which is prominent to-day
IN the minds of the people General
Woods position on the issue is we'll
known None of the candidates should
be unwilling to define his stand on the
issue"
Wood AS Business Executive
John W. Gardiner, the writer. at the
first of series of parlor conference
meetings in the interest of General
Wood for President. held last night at
the home of Mrs. Eleanor Whitcomb.
l2o Riverside Drive, told the audience
stories about General Wood as bus
mess executive.
he is the one candidate Of all of
the weil-known asprants for the Re-
publican nomination who is not a pol
itician," said he. "Furthermore. he
is proud of it. Probably he will be
elected for that reason General Wood
believes that the present-day problems
are social as we'll as business, and he
Is better equipped to solve those prob
lems than any one seeking the support
Of the delegates"
Mrs. Mary Hatch Willard. who is
familiar with what General Wood did
in reconstruction work in Cuba i'm
mediately following the Spanish Amer
lean War. told of the complete trans
formation of the civic and military
conditions there under the successful
administration of General Wood