The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-02-15

paign manager and something OF
IN. plans for The future.
Mr.. King is going to spend stN
weeks in Florida getting a genuine
rest aud recovering from the strain
which he underwent In lining up
moro than 500 delegates from al
parts Of the country for General
Wood" said Mr.. Svcley toni sht
The large interests with which Mr.
King Is connected insisted that no
forget politics for a while ana gcl d
real rest
Whether Mr.. King will retire
from politics at this time 4s som -
thing he has not told anybody ito
has declined to he interviewed. and
any statement credited to him that
ne is going to inaugurate "A poison
gas campaign to defeat General
Wood IS pure bosh
sought A. Manager.
when Mr.. King returns 10 New
York in s.N weeks ne will find sc err
al candidates for presidential hon
ors only too pleased 70 'e, uim
handle their campaign Frank e..
Lowden OF Illinois and Hiram Juau-
son OF California have already lee
him know they would not look Ute
kindly on an alliance with AIM
1T must be remembered thai sil.
Is ing spent some weeks lining up
delegates throughout tine country
for his candidate. when nc resigned
as General Woods campaign man.
ager he did not tell the other Wood
hnCE"r1 what delegates he had tined
up, nor where they are located. r.
Is the thing that has arOu.oi the lrN
of the men who are now backing
General Woods campaign.
MANY OF the delegates VINO
agreed To vote for the candidate
whom Mr.. King win support in 'he
convention were not particularly
grievcd when Mr. King cut loose
from General Wood They had
pledged their Vote to Mr.. King bee
cause they knew OF the good work
he had done as one of Theodore
/ Roosevelt's strongest Campa. grera,
and not because Of any pa. d ularly
burning pathy for G,uHrtl
| Wood. Many OF them regarded the
Wood boom as manufactured one,
but were ready To support DO, 1r
cause Mr.. King the strong Eoosc-
Welt man was managing it Il is
safe TO say thar while Mr. kinI
has severed his come .tiou with
Genera Woods campaign hr -ui
holds the pledges of at least 200 %,
the SOC delegates he ot tanned ia
his tours across tho country, and A-
VIII hold these delegates when ur
goes To tho convention.
Fairfield county has tho naihiDE
Of two delegates TO tho national con
yeutiou / feel confident iu saylu-
thar Mr. King can bc ono Of rhes'.
two delegates If mo so desires Ns
for the state chairmaushlp Boa Dou-
ncctlCut, Mr.. King doeS1 care about
that
Nothing to Worry Nhuut.
why should Mt King WnrrN
about the threats OF tho Wood cam
pagn managers 10 invade tonnectI-
cut. state which has q compare
lively small number OF delegates. tr.
on the other hand, he has 200 dole
gates sewcd up from other states
Ike Missouri and other large middl
west and western states?
Mr.. King resigned from Tho man
agCmcnt of tho Wood campaign OF
his own yo'ition. IIC told mo before
he lCft for Chicago he WIS going to
have show down with the mon
who had stepped into the campa gn
after he had done the real work and
got the Wood boom we'll started
These men apparently hat the idea'
that because rhey controlled mii-
!;Sft, ~ ,i1iia,s dizzy hurw the last
kord In the game Of politics when
hey tried to tell Mr. King how hc
should carry ON his CHwpa ED ne
simply asked tn bC CNguSC4. Before
leaving Chicago for New York, Mr.
King announced that, no VA
through