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Show iCHEKD Lffll ! FDD CBiESTli J St. Louis Will Make Lasij Bid Today to Win 1920 I Meeting Place. ' Y A sUlXO TON. he-. -Aiihouih ! Chicago admit tediy avus the favorite j toni.uht for the ll'-O Convention city of j the Kepuhliean party, choice of which ! wnl be mado here tomorrow by the national na-tional committee, boosters for Si. Louis still were making' a determined campaign cam-paign ami were asserting, that they had a fighting chance to win. The hope of St. Louis was placed in con f ere 11 ce with com in it t 'e members which lasted tar into' the night and was expected to be resumed tomorrow morning, morn-ing, i'rivately lhe backers of the Alls soiiri city admitted lhey had an uphill light, bur they elainieu gains during the day and ovcniiig; from the Chicago supporters. sup-porters. So contident were the proponents of Chicago t hat some of them predicted The claims of Si. J.otiis never would be laid formally before the committee. The suggestion got a prompt negation, however, from the St. Louis partisans, who declared emphatically that thev wouhl carry their tight to a liiial showdown. show-down. Meantime, discussion as to tlie date of lhe convention, -which a ho will be fixed by the committee tomorrow, centered cen-tered .about Tuesday, June S. The custom cus-tom of convening- tin.' convention on Wednesday, it was predict ed by he leaders, would be changud in order to provide a longer week. Selection of a time and place for i he convention wiil conclude t he formal business of the committee nu-'tinrj, but most of the hundreds of party lenders arc expected to stay for the session of state chairmen, which com cues Thursday. Thurs-day. Some of th'tn will remain tin til the end of the week, continuing- the discussion dis-cussion of political candidates and policies. poli-cies. With the arrival today of tiie last of those who are to attend the meeting con t'e re ii ces owr president ial pnssi bi li-' ties greatly multiplied until Hie claims of upwards of a doen potential candidates candi-dates were being; presented. I 'art i cularl y enn-.pie nous we re i he friends of Injor General hmnard (Continued on Page b Column 2.) CISCO LEADING FOB CDHVEffTIDH (Continued Fr m Page One,) Wood :md fiovernor Frank O. Luwdni of Illinois, who hi-ouht lu Washington wnrkinf orfcunizai ions tu i'urther t)io interests of their respective candidn tt-?. lioostcrs for Scii" ors Jjinics 1-. V;it-son V;it-son of Indiana and Warren r. irardin of Ohio also jjot actieiy into th' arena, while tlio.c: i'avurinj; other candidates were busy feeling out the seutiim-i-t of the eommitte'emen aiul their auest. A novelty of the nict-ti tomorrow will lie an open session, at which the claims of the cities trying lor the convention con-vention will be presentei and speeches J made hv several prominent Kepub-j Kepub-j licas from scattered parts of t!:o country. coun-try. T!;e decision will be made, however, how-ever, in executive session. The committee commit-tee also is expected to formallv indorse the plan of Will 1'. Hays, tb national chairman, fur the limitation ot" individual individ-ual campaign contributions to !MU"i. Many editors of Kejuiblican newspapers news-papers were here, and live of the six former chai mii'ii of t lie national com-mitce com-mitce hail come i:i response to an invitation invi-tation of Chairman Hays to 2.-nd their counsels iti the formulation of l'Ji'O plans. Tonight the committeemen and state chairmen 'nere quests at a dinner ?i en b" the ex ecu t i ve com mi t tee of t 1 woman "s division. The Republican repress nta lives from ( ihio today unanimously indorsed Sera-tor Sera-tor Harding br the prenidemial ur.niina-tion, ur.niina-tion, and tleven f the thirteen Republican Republi-can members of the house from Indiana In-diana held another me. ting- to perfect their plans on behalf of Senator "Watson. Friends of Senator Sutherland of West Virginia became active tonight making-plans making-plans fr an extensive campaign for his nomination. |
