Show PP rUUN T WOUD fO M Admittedly in L Lead ad on n Results Results' in Primaries 5 I He H sL Yet Failed to tp Win R Regular gular ilar Backing ki g By William Willia Philip Simms Simms' International News Service Staff Corr Correspondent sp n ent nt W WASHINGTON May 6 All All Allbut vy but bit seven even states have nov now held their conventions or primaries maries marie for th the selection of 83 of the e tot total l of f delegates t s to o othe the big caucus caucus caucus' at Chicago scheduled to begin four tour WeeKS from next Tues Tues- Tuesday day Yet Tet alm almost st unparalleled confusion confusion con con- con en- fusion a t to who's who among the G G. G 0 O. P. P candidates tes for the pr presidential presidential nomination is the dominant feature feature fea fea- ture of the situation Colorado holds I fea-I its convention today Monday Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming will follow suit On May r y 14 will ViI hold S a presidential I primary and arid next day Alabama will have a a. convention O Oregon eon follows with a a primary May 21 21 then Texas May r 25 5 which wIth Virginia on I May ray 25 and S and Vermont May 26 will willind willI I ind wind up season the seven seven states tates I he Remaining J 3 d delegates e tes tesi 1 i gl i J. J S MANEUVERING l But flut nothing can happen in any auy of ot these states materially tO change th the status Front From now on the struggle will not be so so much to capture delegates delegates dele dele- gates before the convention meets asto asto as asto to obtain a strong strat strategic gIc position in the convention itself A fight over the temporary chairmanship chairmanship chairmanship chair chair- manship is I's in prospect Another is expected to arise out of ot the contest to seat Borne some of the delegations two full sets already having been selected in Florida South Carolina Georgia and Mississippi while other disputes are in th the offing otting notably over oyer the Louisiana Oklahoma Tennessee and Virginia delegates Perhaps the there e will b be others other but these s scrimmages I it is believed d. d will be mere outpost affairs compared to the fierce battles battles' between n candidates now maneuvering for position REGULARS SHY AT WOOD Old Old I guard leaders have intimated that General Wood will not do They say he has not played the game He I refused to to stay out of states claimed by favorite sons and the regulars insist the convention shall be regular regular regular regu lar if anything j Senator Bc Be q Penrose Republican leader sitting in Philadelphia has virtually virtually vir vir- given the thumbs down sign on Senator r l Hiram ir m Johnson offering in inI I his stead Senator Philander Knox Knox- also of Pennsylvania Like the senator I from California Knox opposed the I league of nations but he Is a regular regular regular regu I lar which John Johnson Johnson Johnon on h has s not been since he bolt bolted d the party with Theodore Roosevelt In 1912 1912 Johnson they thet claim is a a radical r dica Instead of or f a r regular ul r rand and th the regulars ire are afraid Herbert HooVer likewise Ik wise a according cording to Senator Senator- Penrose could could never never be nominated by any Republican convention conven conven- tion lion HARDING HARDING tl LOSES SE GROUND Senator Harding of f Ohio Ohto is is' said to have eliminated himself f by winning a abare abare abare bare pl plurality in his n native tive state pf of Ohio and by running l last st Jn fn the In Indiana Indiana Indiana In- In diana primary while Governor Gov Gov- Lowden of IlI Illinois nois is not so 6 m much muth ch talked of r now as as' as s' s he w s still considered red In the running a as a compro- compro n lse candidate Meantime G General n ra Wood leads leids the field so fi far fal as nEt s Instructed delegates are concerned Colonel Colon l William C C. Pr PrOctor PrOc PrOc- c- c tor of Cincinnati Woods Wood's l manager r to today today top to- day wired vired Washington headquarters headquarters' claiming delegates s already committed committed com corn mitten to the gener general generah il not counting Indiana which state holds hold a conven convention tion next Wednesday Should Shoud this venti on n morally bind hind its delegation for t th q winner of the plurality Woods of ot course w would profit ClAIrS CLAIMS FOR FOR WOOD WOOD cl claim l 11 he he will go into the convention n nion ion with not 1 tess less than han votes One may therefore be certain he will viii not quit without a fight tight i I Johnson Johnsons friends claim the country's popular vote vot Is behind him and th that t recent primaries and conventions show It It but t they tiey ey mus must fight tight the regular regul r Republicans and the Wood crowd at atthe atthe the same time tim I |