Show Cu I Ou I PI RA DACE I nf THUS T U FAR fAR L' L Le Leaders iders Bew Bewildered asS as S Delegates t s F Follow Own Sweet Will Se Setting ting Aside all Precedents WASHINGTON WASHINGTON ASHINGTON June 5 5 Senator Senator r Philander Philand r Knox of Pennsylvania today came out for Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania Penn sylvania nomination for for the Republican Republic n preside presidential I I By Ay Marten Marlen E E. Pew Marl n. n p W International News Service ce Staff Staff Correspondent I CH CHICAGO CHICAGO Ju June e 5 Thes These x v-x the ted out outstanding were vere un unprecedented r standing features of the R Republican pub lican- lican situation tu t n t today day oTh on nH the eve cv ve of convention on week i From Foth the practical political standpoint stand stand- point ln th the th c convention Uon is anc and lP the 1 incoming 5 ng l delegates e show siow f genera general n r l s sym tom o O OH H eq h hAny Any Anyone the light eight prominently i presidential l tes' tes j 15 ix no now an n a actual possibility o although he hJ weeks week's developments ts have badly shuf shuttled shuffled shut shut- fled the cards ann and Wood DARK ARk HORSE HORSE A A- Adark dark horse h Is ii is not improbable bl i probably not inor more nor than a third of ot the total number numb r ot of delegates of are r actual actually under p pe e pi pledge dg and and manY many of these pledges are wobbly The vine prevailing pre confusion is a a. breeder breeder breed breed- breed breed- er of these e elements The death of C Colonel lonel Theodore Theodore Roosevelt ev I Senator Senat t Penrose's s 's illness s the he strange up ml of the Southern delegates who wh he hex heretofore have been d delivered lIvered at the psycho psychological moment mo moment mo mo- ment of ot late years by Frank Hitchc Hitchcock Hitch Hitch- I c cock party disputes disputes' concerning the 1 form of the treaty of f peace an and preeminently preeminently pre pre- pre pre-I eminently the failure of any strong hand to assert gt general n ral party control LEADERS I How to hold and and swing this amazingly amai- amai amas- amas c confused mass is the puzzle o of I machine leaders who have never before be be- fore for Ore participated in ja a Republican convention convention convention con con- I be-I which did not no respond res ond to fo the dictates of one or r more more dominating I practical al lead leaders rs The bes best they can i pr predict now is th that the convention I will t take ke for form that that leadership will VIII asser assert Itself lf and sentiment for tor a candidate can can- can can- consolidate upon the shoulders I of or a man who will satisfy I IThe The Tile New ew York lork delegation Is a casein case ase in point though it exaggerates exaggerate the I situation It numbers numbers' eighty They will arrive on Sunday They ar are except as they are cx ex 1 ex expected to yield yield- the favorite son honors honore on on the first fix ballot A meeting meeting meet meet- meet meet-I ing of the delegation will be held on Monday tay to canvass the candidates I But there is no no pronounced leader leadell and after arter Nicholas Nicholas' Murray Butler has been paid his compliment ent the members are I likely to be free t to drift with the prevailing pre pro political winds CONVENTION WIDE OPEN I John W W. W Dwight t a a district delegate from New York who has been attending attending attending at at- I tending politIcal l conven conventions lon since 1880 said toda today I r nave have never seen such Cuch a wide open convention Each candidate will have ha-e his chance he here e. e I enjoy the situation situa tion and arid believe It Is a healthy condl con dl I I believe there are uninstructed uninstructed delegates at this this' convention on Although the Pennsylvania Pennsyl anla delegation delegation tion ot of six seventy Is under Instructions Instructions Instructions to cast Its Hs first t ballot banot for Governor GOY Coy Sprout Sproul of that state with Sproul definitely under r pledge to carry through the wishes of Senator Pen Pen- Penrose rose no one knows exactly which candidate can can- this tower of strength will prop but but today as as' yesterday the tip was strong that that Senator Senat Harding of Ohio have It t if he needed it to go gothe over aver the top HIRAM M JOHNSON ms Senator Hiram Johnson Jo lDson Is H not I known to be at peace with East Eastern rn I Republicans but his friends he here e an and I they are numerous are fighting desperately desperately des des- for him s the man can win the election next fall Lowden Wood Johnson and Poindexter Poin- Poin dexter lexter are mal making maling a determined fight oh h the gro grounds Delegates are under tt terrific pressure fr from ln ea each h of ot of them the he former three hoping for a quick decision dec when balloting starts nt next f 2 r Friday POINDEXTER WAITS Poindexter ears appears appears to be e hoping for fora I a L late result The same is true of larding g who will wIll come come Jn In n late Sun Sun- Continued ed on n p page ge 2 2 l 7 f I I I G GO D. 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I day or or Monday l morning without fire fire- I works S B Butler men are doing little active work worl Coolidge's friends are moderately moderately atel active Hoover Is a distinctly recep receptive Ive candidate his l legion gion of ot loc local i workers workers' Say as they go about from front button hole to butt button n hole talking him himas himas himas as a man of ot works and high dis die Unction Wood has less than 20 delegates Johnson has little more than han instructed delegates and the third m member mn-iber of the big three GovernOr Govern Gov- Gov ern r Lowden has about the same FAVORITE SONS The rest are split up a among ong the various favorite sons to whose support support sup sup- port ort they are not pledged after the first several ballots After Atter the first ballots ballots- these del dele dele- gates rates are in Imminent danger of splitting splitting split- split ting Ing up into small groups so numerous numerous numerous numer numer- ous that tha t to weld them together in a cohesivE mass mas would be a herculean task ask Half a dozen men men are ambitious ambitious ambi- ambi lous today joday to fall fail h hIr Ir to tho the job bf of r the he straw boss lying nn ri a sick bed bedin bedin in n Philadelphia S SS S Not one of or them can now muster sufficient strength to weld the p parts o f an organization together S Among those who ho hoare are are prominently me mentioned are A. A T. T Hert Hart of ot Kentucky James B. B Kealing of Indiana J. J T. T I Ting King of Connecticut Charles B. B Waren War- War Ten reon en of Michigan l Jim Watson of ot In Indiana Indiana In- In diana and Coleman DuPont of Delaw Dela- Dela j w re I COMMITTEE ANTI I The one show of strength revealed to date dato is that a good sized of the national committee is Is' Is anti anti- Wood S Less than half a dozen Wood delegates delegates dele dale gates have been seated out of nearly contests in which he lie had entered candid Candidates tes Most l of the contests have gone In favor of L Lowden But this this has has been true not out of any particular leanIng leaning lean lean- Ing towards the Illinois governor but butI because as s be between the gov governor and the general the Republican organization organize organize- I tion favors the governor I |