Show Nomination of Lowden By Alliance of Conservatives The average Republican politician who Is not supporting any particular candidate for the presidential nomination nomination nomination nomi nomi- nation s says ys that the Chicago convention convention convention conven conven- tion Is to be a delegates' delegates convention and that the idea uppermost in the minds of the vast majority of delegates delegates delegates dele dele- I gates will be the selection of a ticket ticket ticket tick tick- et which can win In November That the Chicago convention will be a delegates delegates' delegates delegates' delegates delegates' del del- convention goes without saying say say- saying ing as a n material majority of the delegates will go uninstructed and some o of those who go under In ruc- ruc tion will not be particularly strong for the candidates whom they are required required required re re- to support a at t the tae e outset Just how far the convention will go In an effort to pick the best possible possible possible pos pos- sible ticket will depend largely on the bitterness that is injected Into the contest when the convention gets gels under way There is always the possibility of oC a free-for-all free fight in a convention such as will open- open next Tuesday and the party may be helped helped helped help help- ed or it may be Injured by what takes place before that convention adjourns Johnson May 1 Disturb The one great source of disturbance disturbance disturb disturb- ance anco at Chicago is going to be Hiram Johnson and his leading lieutenant Senator Borah of Idaho Johnson will have delegates to start with which Is a long way from enough to nominate Leonard Wood will have more instructed delegates than Johnson but that in itself does not mean anything No candidate will have sufficient strength at the outset to to get gel within seeing distance of the nomination and and a number of ballots will have to be taken before there Is Isa isa isa a choice It is possible there will be bea bea a considerable number of ballots al- al S d 1 e tot y iJU such out long contest as took place at Baltimore In 1912 From the time time he entered the thel presidential race up to this moment Senator Johnson has bas been on the warpath In fact that is his normal state of mind He likes trouble and hunts for it and when he cannot find any sets out deliberately deliberate 1 to make some No sooner had the campaign started than Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son declared war var on Leonard Wood and he ho has kept it up ever since Incidentally In In- he has bas in some degree or other declared war on every other Republican candidate who showed any signs s-gns of strength Force Forces Investigation One of the latest hostile moves move made marts liy y Johnson and his leaders watne was wa I. I the forcing of an investigation by th the have hav UHe into inlo expenditures expenditure bens been made by all candidates for th the j Republican Rc nomination Senator Borah Doi Dorah Do- Do i rah introduced the tho resolution resolutions callI call call- I UK g for this investigation is now InI in I progress I Other candidates had bad more money to spend than then Johnson hence JohnSons Johnson John John- son Sons but Lul no one supposed for a minute that Johnson would no not have accepted ever every dollar he could secure and would have spent it in his campaign just as other candidates candidate have done Johnsons Johnson's complaint complain about campaign expenditures Is the theold theold old sour grapes stor story over over- again Somebody else got the mone money he couldn't get It therefore the noi noise In the matter of campaign expenditures expenditures some queer things have ha developed de Ile- developed even in the Johnson cam cam- For instance Johnson headquarters head head- quarters in New York flooded the with newspapers of the country Johnson campaign propaganda and sent this out in stamped envelopes each bearing a cent 3 stamp when a cent 2 stamp would lw e been heen am am- pIe Frugality tot dot Obsession How lIow many thousands of dollars were squandered in this way nobody but the Johnson management could tell telf In New Jersey Johnson filed a statement of campaign contributions and expenditures and among the contributors contributors contributors con con- was the Washington newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper man who Is Johnsons Johnson's publicity public public- ity manager Tho The reports show that this newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper man had contributed to the Johnson campaign fund This publication created a universal laugh laughIn In Washington where the publicity director is known and the verdict was either that Johnson has so eo much money at his bis disposal that he ho can pay a most lUi lavish h salary to Ills his cam cam- I publicity Jr or else elc that director was receiving money from someone else and reporting It as ills own contribution This particular newspaper man Is far from being the highest salaried correspondent oCI of oC Washington and the best newspaper newspaperman news aper man In this c city t never was able to contribute to anybody's cam cam- Antagonism Aroused The forcing of a senatorial investigation Investigation investigation into campaign expenditures did not serve to popularize Senator Johnson with other candidates the they had anything to conceal conceal con con- ceal or not they resented being made subjects of pu public investigations and not a one of or the candidates who had to come to Washington or send his managers to make an explanation is is ismore ismore ismore more friendly disposed to Johnson today by reason of the passage of tho the Borah resolution The Borah resolution resolution resol tion by the way was introduced af after after after af- af ter a conference between Senator Borah and Senator Johnson and after after after af af- ter ter Johnson s p had publicly charged that Leon Leonard rd Wood and Lowden were spending money lavishly in their campaigns It would seem at this day that HIram Hiram Hiram Hi HI- ram Johnson is one candidate who could not be considered as a compro compro- mise He is the one candidate who has made it a a. point to offend If it not insult other candidates and at one onetime onetime onetime time or another has taken a fing at nearly every ery Republican who has bas had the temerity to go 1 out for the tho Republican nomination at a time when Johnson has claimed it for his own et i Bitterness Present i 1 f There Is a certain bitterness between between between be be- tween Johnson and every other canI can- can I oh J oa i m ln to the ot other er candidates would support If It the control of their delegates should be left et to them after they ther themselves are eliminated It is probably bly true that Johnson could at any time during the convention convention con con- if IC he would concede his own defeat force torce the nomination of any other candidate acceptable to him provided he could deliver to that candidate most of the delegates who will support him in lu the early balloting balloting ballot ballot- ing but those who know Johnson do donot donot donot not expect him to admit until h be he ii Is defeated that he cannot be nominated ed and therefore it is going to be difficult for party managers to make any deal with Johnson Johnson himself by reason reason of being an alternate alternate alter alter- nate from California will be on Oil tho the convention floor and It will be possible possible possible ble through courtesy of California delegates for him to participate actively actively ac ac- ac in the deliberation of the con con- Borah to Have Sent Seat Senator Borah Dorah Johnsons Johnson's right right- hand band man will have that privilege as one of the delegates from Idaho Borah and Johnson are going to Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago looking for a fight and It t is obvious obvious obvious ob ob- ob- ob that some of ot the other candIdates candidates candidate's candidates candi candI- dates date's as well as a number of the theother theother theother other delegates will see to it that they are not The fact tact that none of the avowed Republican will have enough votes to nominate at the outset naturally gives rise to speculation speculation spec spec- about dark horses and and Republican Re Re- Republican publican leaders who are not particularly particularly partie wedded to any candidate are carefully looking over the tho stable to see ee what material is available among men neu who have not been cons conspicuous conspicuous- ly y mentioned for tor the presidency Senator Knox never having announced announced an- an himself a candidate must still till be listed with the dark horses borses but mt Pennsylvania has another dark horse in Governor Sproul As between be tween the two men K Knox ox is by all od odds s the more because he has a national and an international reputation The convention will not need an Introduction to Knox nor will delegates have to ask who he Is Isor Isor isor or what he has done Sproul Little LUtlo Known n Governor Sproul seems to have little little lit lit- tle le back of him other than the fact that hat he is governor of Pennsylvania lIe le is not known outside he has bos never nover nov nov- er r established any particular reputation reputation tion ion and nationally is Is- Isan an unknown figure GOTe Governor nor Coolidge of Massachusetts etts Is a dark k horse to be reckoned Continued on Pa Page Pace e Six |