Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-06-06
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.


CHICAGO, June 5.-If you should
hear that the republican national con-
vention has suddenly been moved to
Kansas City or to Cleveland. it Will
be due, you may be sure. to the row
between Senator Sherman of Illinois
and Mayor Thompson, Chicago boss.
over the job of republican national
committeeman for Illinois.
Senator Sherman is running to
"clean up" the mayor for Gov. Low
dem. The mayor has sworn vengeance
If Senator Sherman does not quit.
Heard Mayor Made Threat.
IT have been told today" Senator
Sherman said. that the mayor and
the city hall crowd are threatening to
throw 500 policemen hostile to the
candidacy of Gov. Lowden and lot
of the mayors followers into Con-
vention Hall. They plan to bring
about demonstration and such dis
order as will discredit the republican
party and intimidate the convention
These threats have come to me per-
sonally. All because ! have refused
to quit and let the mayor have the
national committeemanship.
Let them try it. and see how it
works out. We can move the entire
convention from Chicago over night
to Kansas City if necessary. Chicago
may wake up and find the convention
gone"
Senator Sherman is quite mover.
It will be remembered that he threat
ened to move the capital of the ma
ton to ST. Louis or some other in
land point if the rent profiteers at
tackled the Ball rent law in the Dis
trict court. Now that the Court of
Appeals has held the law unconsti-
tutional, what is the senator going
to do?
Joking aside. the senator. who has
had many hard battle in Illinois, is
going to the mat with the mayor,
and it is believed here today that
the veteran will win.
.Propheteers Busy"
Prof1teers in Chicago. for the mo-
ment, have been eclipsed by the
"propheteers" You find the regular,
dyed-in-the-wool proprietor on every
street corner and in every hotel
lobby doing a rushing business. The
uncertainty of the contest for the
getting on the nerves of some of the
delegates, national committeeman and
campaign followers.
who is going to be nominated Is
asked 15O.9s9.999 times a day.
Nobody" replied a jaded reporter.
in a quarter of an hour. johnson
can't be nominated because the old
guard won't have him. Wood can't
be nominated because his campaign
has been mismanaged and his mis-
guided friends have spent too much
money. Lowden can't be nominated
because of the Missouri revelations
and the leaders think he can't be
elected. Hoover can't be nominated
because none of the politicians is
for him. Nicholas Murray Butler
can't be nominated because he's a col
lege president Poindexter can't be
nominated-what's the use? Nobody
can be nominated-if you will believe
all you hear"
Incidentally and not because we are
seeking to- make prediction, the
Hoover people are beginning to take
more andsniore heart over the tangled
state into (which affairs are drifting.
This maybe said also of the Harding
followers
Delegates are pouring into Chicago
and 1D0ethouSands of persons who
will attehd--or near-attend-the con-
vention.nnThe Districts contingent,
including Frank j. Hogan. delegate.
William IT: aGalliher and DR.. Charles
Marshall, alternates. is expected to
reach here tomorrow morning. James
A. Cobb, the other delegate. is here.
Some of the advance guard reached
Chicago Today. Gus A. Schuldt. cor
responding secretary of the League Of
Republican State Clubs of the District:
Edgar C. Snyder, a former president
Of the league: George L. Whitford and
Clinton Hiatt were among the ar
rivalAsfr. Schuldt said that the
league would send from Washington
this fall at least 10000 voters to cast
republican ballots in their home
states,,, He pointed out that a diff
ferencA-0f 500 votes for the republican
tick ct in New York. when James G.
Blaine was the nominee. would have
elected him President.
so you see what the work of the
said MT. Schuldt.
john Garages of the Washington
navy yard, Tucker Graves Hum
phreyso ANA DR.. William L. Robins are
other Washington arrivals today. Aft
er sneAding an hour in the Hiram
nS6h1headquarters at the Audi
forum. DR.. Robins made his debut in
the proprietor class.
johnson IL going to be nominated
on Friday" he said.
This place reeks with atmosphere"
tonight. It's true you get a different
atmosphere at each separate head
quarters. The whispering gallery" the
men who lead you to one side and ask
in your ear if Senator Penrose is COM
ing to Chicago or Charles Evans
Hughes is really going to be the