Show AGO PREPARES TO TRIM ALL COMERS Early Hotel Go Gouge ge geHas Has Begun to Make Itself Felt Felti I i ty y George eorge R R. Holmes News Service Staff Correspondent ICAco May 1 24 Two Two weeks Itoda ay a veritable a avalanche v lanche of ot M will twill pour into Chicago swamping hotels rooming houses and private private- domiciles Two w weeks eks from tomorrow the temporary chairman of of t the tho Republican national convention yet et to be selected will bang his ra gavel vel veland and start what promises promises' to be be the most mot bitterly fought nominating con in years Already the committee on arrange range arrangements meets ments Is faced with an unprecedented situation Despite the increased seatIng seating seat seat- Ing space in the historic Coliseum there are today twenty applicants for every seat in the galleries And the number grows hourly hO There are ac accommodation accommodations accommodations ac- ac for tor people and there are to date nearl nearly people people peo peo- pie trying to get em v Already Chicago is taking on a convention convention con con- aspect The ordinary hotel roon room which rented several weeks ago for has crept up to 5 flat It will keep on creeping until Just before the avalanche descends Then It will break brea into a a. sprint ST. ST LOUI LOUD l f May 24 Mayor William Wil Wil- William liam Hale Thompson of ot Chicago lead ead I per er er of ot the Lowden anti-Lowden faction of 1111 Illi- I nois noi n Republicans ans declared d here hee to today tho the that t. t t e C Chicago delegates to the na na- I Honal convention conventIon will not be bound I by Instructions of ot the stale state convention conven conven- tion to vote for tor Lowden The Spring Spring- I fied convention adopted resolutions resolution instructing the tha delegates to vote votes for Lowden until he I Is nominated or- or or un In tU un-til he he releases them r I do not Consider the state convention conven conven- tion has power bower ower to Instruct any anyone one b but t the ten delegates at large Mayor Thompson said Th The people give th the Instructions and the Chicago delegates delegates delegates dele dele- gates either received their instructions or did not from the congressional distrIct district dis dis- where they were ere selected It happens that most of these thee district delegates were uninstructed I did didI I not have any authority to tell these district whom to vote for Mayor Thompson said he expected I I to be alf an active candidate for tor reelection reelection re elec I tion as national 1 committeeman |