Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-27
See Republican Organization
Lining Up New England
and South for Coolidge
FEAR REPETITION OF 1912
Same Tactics Being Used as
When Roosevelt Formed
Bull Moose Party
BY GEORGE H. MANNING
Washington Correspondent of The
Perth Amboy Evening News.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-Will
the Republican national convention
of 1924 be a repetition of the Chi
cago convention of 1912, ending in
Bull Moose" bolt by Hiram John
son and his friends because of the
steam roller nomination of Calvin
Coolidge by the G. o. P. machine?
Will the feverish efforts of the old
regular Republican organization to
throttle the Johnson Borah- -LaFol-
Observation-Disclosures Ship
stead movement for nomination of a
progressive candidate cause a bolt
of the western leaders from the con
ventions and wind UP in the election
of the Democratic nominee as 1t did
in 1912?
While these are questions that ap-
pear to have been overlooked re-
Gently, showed in the obscure back
ground by the loud whoops with
which the politicians and newspapers
! everywhere have been scurrying to
hop on the Coolidge bandwagon the
manner in which the pre-convention
situation is shaping up bears sufL
| ficiently close likeness to that OF
1912 to warrant closed considera-
tion of this possibility.
AS the Coolidge machine gets un-
| der way, it becomes Increasingly
evident that it is combination of
New England and Southern dele
gates which will be counted on as
the basis for the nomination of Coo
lidge next year.
And it may be recalled that it was
! just such a coalition which put
across the nomination of Taft in
| 1912, and the disgust of Colonel
| Roosevelt at the award of two-thirds
of the contested Southern and West
ern delegates to Taft by the G.. o. P.
bosses which caused his walkout.
President Coolidge and his backer1
have already given unmistakable
evidence of their intention to corral
all the delegates possible from the
Southern and New England states
for the convention next year. Sena-
tor Moses has taken upon himself
the task of rounding up the New
England states the appointment OF
! Bascom Elemp as secretary to the
President is the first move toward
getting the Southern delegates in
line.
In the meantime, Senator Hiram
Johnson has thrown his hat definite
ly in the ring and can now be count
ed on to go out in earnest for every
vote in eight to take to the con-
vention with him.
In the west, Senator Johnson has
| undoubtedly quite a number of votes
in very plain sight. Although he
has lost some strength in recent
months, and does not stand so close
ly to a number of the progressive
! To- l. rxrfI1
thermore be in rather ticklish po-
sition in regard to the tariff, in q
showdown between the Californian
and Coolidge the former will in al
probability lead in a number oi
states.
With a goodly number of delega.
tions from the western states, John
sons struggle for supremacy will
lie in such of the eastern states as
have presidential primaries and II
the south.
In 1912, the convention contest
centered in the seating of delegations
With the help of John T. King, Of
Connecticut, and former Postmaster
General Frank Hitchcock a soli6
representation of Taft delegates was
returned from every southern state
except North Carolina--but theil
seats were hotly contested by the
Roosevelt faction.
The national committee, controlled
by Penrose and New and Crane, met
before the convention and steam
rollered the Taft delegates in, after
which it was merely formality foI
the credentials committee to ratify
their seats. Whereupon, seeing two
thirds of the contested delegates
awarded to his opponent, Colone
Roosevelt marched out of the hall
and from a balcoby across the
street, announced that the assemb-
He'd horde of his unscattered delegates
that they would hold their own con-
vention, which they did.
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