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Show Prospects of Deadlock Hourly Become More Pronounced In Chicago. SQUBBLE OVER SEATS BECOMES MORE LIVELY Lucy Page Gaston, Only Wo-man Wo-man Candidate, Withdraws From Political Race. WMi CHICAGO, Juno 7. No charges ll have appeared today in the con'ention rflj ' lineup and none arc cxpccted- I'JU ' -- Twenty hours before the convention ' ' assembles, it in an absolutely unbossed. IU unled affair and as the bewildered JH delegates mill around the hotel lob- bies bewailing the absence of leader- Ishlp, the men who were the real leaders lead-ers in the years gone by find a grim satisfaction in referring to the charges , of bosstsm which were so freely hurled at them at former conventions. They aro asking delegates if it i3 not better to bo led than lost Such overnight and early morning ( conferences as were held, were of the ' same Inconclusive nature as ihosp which preceded them and only served to strengthen the program and to learn by its preliminary ballots thar i none of the candidates has enough delegates to nominate him. I Leaders Xo Longer. The so-called leaders are still ex plaining to Inquirers that attention U being concentralod on the platform which they emphasize Is very iinpor--tanL The best informed observers. however, see evidence that this is merely a screen to hido the fact that ,4 the so-called leaders are no longer- 4 leaders. The passing of the old hne I party whips, it becomes more ar.d 1 more evident, has brought up. an en-Jjjrjfcj. en-Jjjrjfcj. tlroly new crop of so-called leaders, ' y many of 'Whom do" not Itnow another , and that is one of the things which1 explains the lack of cohesive action in getting down to definite conclusions. conclu-sions. Xobody Has Knougli. No campaign manager has been able to strengthen his lines enough to go ' in'With confidence for a real test vote Each one of them is waiting for tl:e first ballot lo demonstrate how sn 1 are the assurances he hns received from the tin Instructed delegates. All the managers look for the first ballot to settle the outlook considerably consider-ably for the big three Johnson, Lovv-den Lovv-den and Wood. They feel that the candidate who gets the highest num-I num-I ber will have a potential advantage! and the candidate who-stands at the : bottom of the list will be decidedly on i tho defensive. The candidate who can i ' make a gain on the second ballot, tho! i managers feel, will provide his mana- i ger with very valuable ammunition in ' & rounding up things for the third. J, c Dark horse talk" was still in the ul background today and there was a) K tj-jj strong undercurrent of Hughes' tallt. ; W (.(!! Senator Eorah, of Idaho, one of the : 'fi Johnson supporters, said that as yet B j. he was not considering dark horses, I tioi, but that he would regard Mr. Hughes , I I he rv as "a very formidable man' if tho J n con, dark horse stage were reached. dait Several Fights Tilkely. j B thai Today's business was largely among ; 1 day the stale organizations which were "on organizing and electing members to I the committees. Several good fights -P, in the selection of national comralt- 100 teenieu were being staged. Wfl'J; The campaign managers and others , ert continue to get reflexes from the sen- r ? ate's campaign expenditures Investi- gallon at Washington Men who are In., ii coming in from the states are bring- f 110j ing the view that the convention might cord hotter find a candidate who has not' pH been mentioned in the investigation at j 'oile a11' lfc was from sch as these that' ( 'alld cajne most frequently the names of) lj' Hughes, Governor CooIIdge and others IHj who did not figure in any way in the H slush fund inquiry. H The New York delegation postponed H until Wednesday morning its dlscus- iH . nlon of candidates. This decision was H reached at the request of Dr. Is'ich- olas Murray Butler, who said he did jlH not want to receive any compimontary jpH or "favorite son" votes. Iook tho Field Over. jH "I want the New York delegates jH to have a chance to look over the H: situation," he said. "I have made It Ht plain that I am not seeking any com- H; ... -r-JK pllmontary vote. This If no time for paying compliments. I do not wish any H favorite son votes. I want only the F votes of those who have faith in my H candidacy and who sincerely desire to HH support mo. 1 am not willing to be ' made a pawn in the game for nomln-l H,: ation for governor or any local politi- I cal issue. I Hj "As the situation has developed, it ' H, scorns not unlikely that the delegates H' from New York. Pennsylvania, In- dlana and Oio ma figuro promln-H promln-H cntly in making the lnal decision. It is for the New York delegates and J for me to dccldo how boot to use their H- great opportunity to give to New York again its position of commanding B leadership in the national organlza- "The latest developments on tho IB league of nations plank in tho plat- B form are that progress is being made j IB towards agreement on a plank that Hu wjll satisfy those of us who have been H, standing for the traditional Kcpubli- Ji can foreign policy. If those who have H' been opposing any co-operation be- IH; twuen the United States and foreign J'i nations to jiroruote tho peace of the Bj; world will accept such a plank will H have no difference of opinion and no IH' debate. If, how6ver, tho contrary' H'vL should he the case, there will be such t. debate 'and it will be conducted P without any pUFsyfoollng.'L IH J "The big fellows 'Will have their Hi (Continued on I'age 3) HI Everybody Up in the ! Air Over Uncertainty! Continued from Page 1.) trial heats, but T don't how they are going to pot by," said Governor Sproul, presidential candidate for the. nomination. nomina-tion. ,t Governor Sproul said a noticeable feature of the prc-.Cqnventlon hours wa3 the good feeling .among: tho delegations dele-gations which led htm to believe the fight would not be" protracted. CHICAGO. June 7. The imminence of the Republican national convention which begins .Ha, sessions at noon tomorrow to-morrow apparently worked today to further becloud instead of clarify the question of who is to be the nominee for president Wood, Lowden and Johnson, supporters sup-porters were driven hard for the advantage ad-vantage and all of them were claiming; claim-ing; gains as the balance of the unin-structed unin-structed delegates rolled into Chicago. But tho best claims for any of the three amountod to littlo more than ono-fourth of tho total delegate strength and it takes a majority to nominate. With prospects of a deadlock thus becoming bote: hourly, favorite sons and dark horse possibilities Increased their activities and further tangled and knotted reins of control for which the party leaders are wrestling. Snuabblo Enlivened. Tho outlook helped too, to enliven the squabble over contested convention conven-tion scats' and tho struggle over permanent per-manent organization of the convention. At least some, and possibly all, of the 137 contests decided by the national na-tional committee- will be brought before be-fore the credentials' committee for a rehearing and a few may be decided finally on the convention floor itself. Realizing the power which might be wielded by a friendly staff of convention conven-tion officials, the managers for all tho candidates are studying carefully before be-fore they jump one way or the other in the choice of a permanent chairman. Senator McCormlck, of Illinois, and former Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, j are most prominently mcnuoneu ior the chairmanship, but the strength behind neither has yet become clearly defined and a choice may bo postponed until tho last minute. Platform Being Shaped. If the situation over candidates and organisation Is uncertain, most of the leaders agree that the situation as regards re-gards the platform at least, is beginning begin-ning to take form. Only a few of the more troublesome planks remain to be agreed on, and although some sharp I struggles are in prospect, no one seems to think that any of thorn will lead to serious consequences. There were indications today that a league of nations plank, over which one of the bitterest convention' fights had been predicted, might soon bc-giv-J en the approval of all the leaccrs except a small group of mild reservation reserva-tion senators. The Johnson-Borah irroconclliables have a plank of their own ready to submit if the platform I conferences do not yield a result acceptable ac-ceptable to them, but they indicated I confidence today that no open fight by them would be npceasary. Some Dissatisfaction. The mild reservation ists arc dissatisfied dis-satisfied with the plank under consideration con-sideration In' the platform conferences because It would have the force, they say, of merely declaring against the league covenant as contained in the treaty of Ycrcallles. They want an affirmative declaration for ratification of the. treaty with safeguarding reservations. res-ervations. In the fight over permanent organization, organ-ization, the Wood forces will throw at least some of their strength; for former Senator Beveridge. "I am for Senator Beveridge,'' said Frank H. Hitchcock, "and I would have been for him even though he had hot been instructed by. his state for General Wood "I have reason to believe that Senator Beveridge is righly regarded In' other camps." Friends of Governor Sproul, of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, said the governor had no particular choice for the permanent chairmanship. Senator Johnson Is for Senator Borah, of Idaho, if the latter indicates that he desires the chairmanship. chair-manship. Senator Johnson's mass meeting tonight by which his supporters support-ers hope to throw his campaign forcibly forci-bly upon the attention of the national convention, will be addressed also by Senator Borah. The California senator sena-tor is expected to deal with various topics in controversy before the convention, con-vention, includiny the leayue of na tions and the method of selecting delegates from the south. Expecting a gathering of overflow sire, both of the speakers will be prepared to appear ap-pear Sn a theatre secured for the meeting meet-ing and outside as well. Scramble For Tickets. Thc scramble for convention tickets began today with their distribution through members of tho national CQm-mlttee CQm-mlttee and the local arrangements committee. Bales of the pasteboards and accompanying badges and sou-l venlrs wer given out at a hotel and there was a stampede of committeemen. committee-men. The seats were allotted according accord-ing to the proportionate representation representa-tion of each state in the convention. L.ucy Page Gaston, the only woman entrant in the presidential race, announced an-nounced today that her najno would not be presented to the convention. ' She oaid she had withdrawn In tavor of anybody ""'who will endorse the moral reforms for which 1 stand." j Miss Gaston entored the South I Dakota primaries on a platform which Included an anti-cigarette plank, un-j adulteratedyfood and "a clean moral." Alvin C. McDonald, member of the Oklahoma delegation, announced that Jake Hajnmbn, national committee-) mair-olect of Oklahoma, -would receive i the Oklahoma vote for president on j the flrat ballot. Mr. Hammon is to be placed in nomination by former .Representative Bird S. McGuiro. Nomination of Governor Lowdou will bo seconded, it was announced. In five minute speeches by Governor Edwin Ed-win P. Morrow, of Kentucky, and former for-mer Representative Charley E. Pickett, of Iowa. Missouri Caucus, With thu arrival of tho Missouri delegation an effort will bo made today to-day or tonight to call a caucus and consider last week's election of Joseph W, Babler, of St. Louu, as national committeeman from tho etato. Babler figured In the testimony before the senate comrnlttee'n investigation of Governor Lowden'H expenditures in Missouri. Although kept away by Illness, Senator Sen-ator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, a, conspicuous con-spicuous figure for years In national convontlono, in closely in touch with developments hero and constantly is advising his lieutenants. There la a telpphono line direct from the senator's sena-tor's houao In Philadelphia to the headquarters hero of the Pennsylvania delegation. Regret over the enforced absence of tho Pennsylvania, leader waa ex-' pressed today by Chairman Hays of the national commltteo. "The Information Is," said Mr. Hays, ".that Senator Penroao will not be hero and ovoryono la sorry," |