The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-21
COOLIDGE |S AF TERI B|G UNIT STATES.
President Quietly Working For Delegations From Ohio
 And Pennsylvania
By RAYMOND CHAPTER n,eaetf Wire to The Age-Herald)

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2o.-Quietly, and with the dignity which occupants of the White House usually have ob- served regarding their political ac- tivities, President Coolidge is build- ing up his fences for the contest over the republican presidential nomina- tion.
 One by one, political leaders who may be useful to him are being in- vited to the White House luncheon table or to the executive offices for conferences with the President. These men are the ones who remain in the background and pull the strings. They hold enormous power in the political hierarchy, though they are barely known to the general public outside their own political domains. The President discusses political matters with proper restraint and discretion with these political barons. but he leaves no doubt in their minds that he intends to get into the presidential fight and that he hopes they will give him their support.
 Eysne PennsyIvania And Ohio.
 At the moment, Coolidge is trying to increase his stock of goodwill among the politicians of Pennsylvania
  total, of 12S votes at the republican convention, and, in view of the mum Der of direct primary states which Hiram Johnson expects to collect, Coolidge can ill-afford to enter the convention without these two delega- tions behind him.
 In Ohio, Coolidge must cultivate the anti-Daugherty faction to prevent 1t from going over to Johnson. It Is a situation which traces back to the early political days of Attorney Cen eral Daugherty and his long standing, feud with Robert F. Wolfee, Colum- = bus publisher, and Rud K. Hynicka of Cincinnati. national committeeman. Because Daugherty was managing Hardings campaign for the nomina- tion. these two threw their support to General Wood and succeeded in split ting the Ohio delegation.
 When Harding was nominated, Daugherty kept his old enemies on the outside and after election saw to 1t that neither Hynicka nor Wolfe nor their friends received considera- tion in the dispensing of patronage. Hynicka, although national commit teeman, was an outcast so far as the Harding administration was con cerned. Recently Daugherty was un- derstood to have started to work to keep Hynicka men off of the Ohio delegation to the national conVen- ton in order to dethrone him as national committeeman when his term expires at convention time.
 Invites Wolfe To White House. But Coolidge heard of this, and, fearing that own strength in Ohio would suffer by the factional feud, sent an invitation to Wolfe to come to the White House for conference. Wolfe was unable to accept the first invitation. At the third request, he responded and was a luncheon guest. Previously Coolidge had William Cooper Proctor, Woods financial angel in 1920, at luncheon. Coolidge hopes to inherit the Wood following, which, combined with the Harding residue, would be sufficient to de- feat Johnson.
 In. Pennsylvania, his situation Is more favorable. But he will confer this week with Ralph Beaver Strass- burger of Norristown, one of the DIE financial contributors to Johnson's preconvention campaign in 19SO. Stressburger recently issued a state ment indicating he was sympathetic toward Johnson now, but, few days later he called at the White House, and subsequently, gave the impression that he did not know whom he would support. Strassburger is ambitious to become national committeeman from Pennsylvania, and. if he won the ap- proval of the Pepper-Reed forces, he might get the post. These men, to- gether with Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. are for Coolidge and against Pinchot and Johnson. Wether John son will go into Pennsylvania and seek the support of progressives in Pinchot's home state is uncertain. Coolidge, advised that Plnchot will get part of the delegation, is now lining up the regulars to capture the remainder, which probably will go to the convention uninstructed, but under the control of the Pepper Reed faction.
 Coolidge conferred the hospitality of the White House on William Wrigley, Jr., the chewing gum king, recently, entertaining him at a luncheon attended by some of he re- publican elite. But Wrigley went over tn Inh