The Washington times., 1924-03-10
COOLIDGE MUST
WIN ON FIRST
BALLOT
Otherwise Well Lose, Some
Leaders Aver-States Vote
For Delegates this Week.
BY WILLIAM HARD.

by WILLIAM HARD,
This week the first Presidential
preference primary State elects it's
delegates to the Republican national
conventions; and this week the Re-
publican party in Washington be-.
gins at last really to lift its eyes
from the tourmoils in Washington
to look at the results in the rest Of
the country and to watch the Cool.
idge managers pursuing their steady
way toward Cleveland on the basis
Of the firm slogan First Ballot or
Bust
There is strong sentiment in
Republican circles here to the ef.
feet that Coolidge will win on the
first ballot. There is also a strong
sentiment in certain parts Of Repub-
lican circles here that II Coolidge
does not win on the first ballot he
! will then thereafter go down hill
and the prize will be won by an.
other.
The question as to who that other
would be is variously answered by
suggestions OF the names Of at
least ten or fifteen dark possibilities.
States Act This Week.
The State which this week will
deliver the first Presidential pref.
erence primary verdict is New
Hampshire.
This week additionally there will
De Republican State conventions for
the selection Of delegates to the Re-
publican national convention in
II
Meanwhile in Virginia, Kentucky.
South Carolina, Iowa, Louisiana and
Minnesota the delegates to the Re.
publican national convention have
already been selected through local
State convention systems.
BY the end Of this week a total
OF ten States will have selected
their delegates.
The total number OF these dele.
gates will be 1874. which is almost
exactly one.sixth Of the whole total
number of all delegates who will
sit from the whole country in the
Republican national convention at
Cleveland.
! OF the 1874 delegates who will he
selected by the end of this week.
! it Is expected that not one will be
openly anti-COolidEe. 1t is expected
that every one will vote for Cool.
idge on the first ballot.
Pledged To Coolidge.
The delegates from Virginia, Ken.
lucky. South Carolina, and Louis.
! lana, totaling sixty seven, and all Of
them already selected. are all OF
| them outrightly instructed for Cool.
/ dge
In Iowa the twenty-five district
delegates and the seven delegates
at large have all of them been in
structed by the State convention TO
vote for Colidge during at least one
ballot
In Minnesota. sixteen out of the
twenty district delegates have been
instructed to vote for Coolidge and
so have the seven delegates at
large. The remaining four district
delegates are believed to intend to
vote for Coolidge on the first
ballot.
Has 1873 Votes Already.
Thus to date. in the States which
SO far have made their selections of
delegates. four of these States being
in the South and two Of them being
In the North, there is no variation
from the rule that every delegate
will vote for Coolidge on the first
ballot. These delegates number 1873.
Now comes the sixty-one dele
gates who will be elected this week.
The eleven from New Hampshire
will all be for Coolidge, according
to statement made today by
Senator Moses, of New Hampshire
Senator Moses said:
Everybody who is running for
delegate in New Hampshire is
pledged to Coolidge except myself;
and I. without being pledged to
him. am for him."
In Kansas the twenty-three dele.
gates will all be for Coolidge. Ac-
cording to Senator Capper of Kan.
sas. Senator Capper said today:
THE district delegates from Kan
sas are either outrightly pledged
already to Coolidge or else are out
rightly well known to be prof. Coil.
idge In their sentiments. The dele
gates at large will be instructed by
the State convention tomorrow to
vote for Coolidge. In my Judgment
coolidge Will be nominated in June
and elected in November
Others Are PrO-COOlidge.
The fifteen delegates from Color
ado and the twelve delegates from
Mississippi will likewise, It is here
believed by the best students Of
local Colorado and Mississippi poll
tics. be gentlemen who are pro-
Coolidge either by instructions or
by their own personal sentiments.
Thus at least as far as the end
Of this week the whole national Re-
publican political scenery seems
! unanimously pro.Coolidge in spite
of all scandals or rumors of scan
dals in oil or in anything else in
Washington.
Strangely enough the only dis
turbances in this scener'' seem not
to be any effects from the scandals
but certain large effects from the