The Washington times., 1924-03-10
1874 DELEGATES
CLAIMED FOR
COOLIDGE
Six States Instructed, While
Four Are Expected to
Act This Week.
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES,
International News Service.

While public attention has been
centered upon the thousand and one
sensations" incident to the naval
oil Investigation. the campaign man.
ayers Of Calvin Coolidge have been
working with a quiet efficiency that
has resulted to date in the acquisi.
ton Of nearly 200 delegates to the
Cleveland convention in advance Of
the primary battles.
Three months from today the Re-
publicans meet at Cleveland to
nominate, and the Coolidge man.
ayers are so confident as a result
Of their preliminary work and sur
veys that they have informed the
President 1t will be simply a ratifi.
cation meeting"
Six States Instructed.
Up to today, six States have in
structed their delegates for Cool.
idge-Virginia, Kentucky. Iowa,
South Carolina, Louisiana, and
Minnesota. BY the end Of this
week, four more States will have
Joined, this list. the Coolidge man.
ayers claimed today These are
New Hampshire, Kansas, Colorado
and Mississippi. The grand total
Of delegate strength from these ten
States in 1874.
The President will receive his
first primary endorsement tomor.
row in New Hampshire. Senator
Hiram johnson OF California, the
only avowed opponent Of Coolidge,
has not entered delegates in the
State, and consequently the Presi.
dent will have no opposition there.
All Of the delegates have announced
themselves for Coolidge save one
Senator George Fl. Moses mas
much as Senator Moses is &C.
counted the original Coolidge man,
there is little doubt Of his position,
even though not formally declared
South Dakota Doubtful.
There will be no real test Of Sen.
ator Johnson's strength until March
25, when the Coolidge and Johnson
candidates. come to grips in South
Dakota in a cleah-cut primary
battle.
The Coolidge managers are some.
what doubtful OF South Dakota
Senator Johnson has been concen-
trating on the South Dakota fight
and has been aided to large ex-
tent by Senator Peter Norbeck. A
victory for johnson there would be
the first real setback experienced
by the Coolidge managers, and by
the same token ii would give the
Johnson candidacy pronounced
boost in other primary States where
the Californian has elected to give
battle.
April TO BE Busy.
The next twelve weeks are to be
filled with political battling. New
Hampshire leads off in the primary
list tomorrow. North Dakota fol-
lows on March IS, South Dakota on
March %. and then the candidates
swing into a hostile April In which
the rival candidates. meet head-on
in a number OF States. Wisconsin
votes on April !, Michigan on April
Z. Illinois and Nebraska on April s,
Oregon on April IS. Pennsylvania
and New Jersey on April %, and
Ohio and Massachusetts on APPEL 2S.
May will see Maryland. California.
Indiana, Montana and West Nir-
ginia express preferences.
The Coolidge managers. who have
been sending the White House
voluminous reports on the political
reaction Of the oil investigation and
the Daugherty matter, have in
formed the President they see no
reason to revise their earlier pre-.
6iction that it will be Coolidge on
the first ballot" at Cleveland.