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Show TO KEEP WATCH IN CALIFORNIA National Republican Committee Com-mittee Will Keep Close Tab on Developments According to an International News report from San Francisco, as published in today's Salt Lake Tribune, members and representatives representa-tives of the Republican National Central Cen-tral Committee have arrived in California Cali-fornia from the east to investigate iho election in this state. They are under instructions, it is said, to make a complete report of the unofficial and official canvass of votes to William Wil-liam R. Wilcox, chairman of the Republican national committee. Just what part William H. Crocker Crock-er and Chester H. Rowell, national committee men in California will take in the reported Inquiry is not included in the speculation instigated instigat-ed by the rumor that Wilcox has sent agents here to make an inves tigation. It is understood two members of the national committee are already in the state, one here and one in Los Angeles, and that a third representative rep-resentative will reach this city Saturday. Sat-urday. Invited to Watch Secretary of State, Fred C. Jordan, Jor-dan, because of the intense interest in the east in the final canvass of votes here, came to San Francisco today and asked Chester H. Rowell, chairman of the Republican state central committee, and O. K. Cushing head of the Democratic state central committee to send representatives to his office in Sacramento tomorrow to participate in his count, which he must certify to the electoral college. It is rumored a representative of the Republican national committee also will be present while the secretary sec-retary of state is tabulating the returns. re-turns. Eighteen counties had reported re-ported in to Jordan today. Jordan said he will insist that the representatives represen-tatives of the political party state committees check up with his deputies depu-ties the returns from every county. Charges of Otis There is a report that the charges made by Harrison Gray Otis and his Los Angeles Times, Captain John D. Fredericks and other leaders of the old guard of the G. O. P. to the effect that in the billboarding of California Cal-ifornia during the campaign Hiram Johnson received more attention than Hughes and that money which should have been expended in behalf of the Republican candidate for president pres-ident was used to further the fight of Johnson had been given much credence in New York. Rowell, Johnson and Milton Es-berg, Es-berg, chairman of the finance committee com-mittee of the Republican state committee, com-mittee, have emphatically denied there was any foundation for such an accusation. But in the east, apparently, appar-ently, the charge has been circulated widely, and Wilcox, it is rumored, wants to know all about it. |