Show I EW PODE THREAT THREATt It n s t V or Lowden rf if n nate te Committee on or ush Funds Will Go Gc Gol l a C Case He Says Bart Campbell elf IT nati national nal News Service Staff Correspondent N iAGO KAGO June 12 If 12 If either either Od or Lowden is the theof I of f the convention the cir- cir antes ances under which he is isI lances I ted will be investigated by f committee given blanket I Tito to probe campa campaign expenditures Senator Senator Borah de de- de today whatever deal deal was hatched I cries eri s of ot c conferences h held ld at the theother stone b by byor x other Republican I s u until an an f early hour this mornan morn morn- morn morn-I J an t t to break the conlon conon con- con on deadlock would also be thor- thor ly lon f gone into by the same com com- Borah intimated IE BOTH PARTIES ah's announcement wa was made h he conferred with Senator J Ten Ten- en- en chairman of the committee at hotel while white the Black Black- m conferees were still under way e ej committee ommittee would resume its at Chicago on July 7 Ilg lithe the alleged allege use of ot Lowden n the Missouri feign aign testified to at Washington fly would be probed further It r stated ted CONFEREES ono ong the senators who drifted InI in the conferences conferences' were Wat- Wat f Indiana Brandegee of Rhode H. H Smoot of Utah Wadsworth of ot I ork Frelin huysen of New Jer- Jer Jeri i Calder Calder of ot I New ew York Curtis of ofas I as and nd H Harding was waa freely treely predicted by delegates I lyp to Harding assembled in the stone lobbies to await the tho out- out the of conferences that the Ohio i or would orl-would would be the nominee of a of or the convention before many s were s were re today many were paid by some of the sento sento sen- sen to the Wood and Lowden headers head- head of or other those ers as wel las to el aspirants while th the cone contest con con- test were on I Feral veral of the conferences were held of f Senator Brandegee on fourth floor of the Blackstone eventually the head head- era ot of the conferees was a visitor to the Black- Black he had but he denied d 9 1 ire any In any of the conferences He Ire Hel l gone to the hotel to con- con conwit wit Johnson BESS ESS OF ELIMINATION m e did not reach an au anant ant on Harding it was said bya ya a process of elimination they 1 disposed of all other candidates aWood and Lowden neither of ot I considered seriously It was wasi belief i elie t of the conferees It was td that both Wood and Lowden begin begin to weaken after the first firstal al today although the cam- cam managers rs of each were said to refused to enter Into any deal ring g to any other othel candidate was as the consensus of ot opinion t delegates who talked with the theof of senators afterward that by el the convention reconvened would be a ticket re ready which lican U an leaders seeking to prevent of ot Johnson would unite n Il i to put across the ticket would most certain certain- c headed leaded by Harding was stated Continued on page pase 2 1 BORAH HURLS Cont Continued on page 3 positively by one ne senator favorable to c candidacy H HARDING DING CONFIDENT The J e situation l looks Very favorable to tomy ray candidacy was the only staten statement state state- n m ment t Ee Senator 1 tor Harding would make A Another r bit of information permitted to t trickle from the conferences s was wal that Senator Penrose from his sickroom sick sick- room toom In Philadelphia r had communicated communicated his approval of the choice of Harding as a compromise candidate Sproul Sprout said he was gratified with th the action of the Pennsylvania v delegation jn in agreeing to c continue to gIve hIni moral support as long as necessary Sproul h has s made a a a. favorable im im- on those delegates he has personally met and his name was freely treely mentioned around the Blackstone Black Black- stone while the conferences were on GRAND BATTLE PREDICTED Lowden owden is likely to develop c considerable con COn- n- n strength on the first few today one of the conferees I said His greatest strength probably Will come come o on the first two or three ballots and he may receive as high as i approximately votes but that will willbe willbe be his maximum And then watch Harding It was admitted however by even the most optimistic parties to the deal that Johnson would not be sidetracked side elde- l t tracked by them without the I of a bitter fight on the O Conven- Conven vel floor which would plunge the crowded building into a turmoil a-turmoil precipitated pre pre- i b by Johnson personally ap appearing appearing ap- ap and Joining with Borah in hurling defiance at th the the- theold old gU guard rd leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers on the platform t 1 Both Bith the Republican and Democratic conventions would be kept in view by bythe bythe the committee It it was Understood until un un- Ui til it all campaign expenditures had be been n checked ck d up pp PLAN P.-AN HARDING STAMPEDE j A At drive to substitute Harding for foreith eith either r Wood or Lowden when the convention convention con con- reconvened at 10 o'clock this morning was discUssed at the Blackstone Black Black- BlackI stone conference it w was as s learned I I It was also reported a a. majority of the Pennsylvania delegation was still urging Sproul as a compromise candid candidate can- can did te although willing to swing be- be Harding Hardin if required to withdraw the moral support it agreed to con eon con to give Sproul at a caucus It held at the Blackstone last night 1 I A move toward Knox by the six seventy Pennsylvania anla delegates tW was s also 1110 talked of although from twenty five to thirty thirty- of them were said sai said 1 to o be ready to fall tall In for tor Wood when freed from their pledges to sU sti stick k to do Sproul MIGHT ACCEPT SPROUL i Borah declared red he had no personal objection to Sproul It is also known I that Johnson and Knox are quite I friendly Borah insisted Johnson Would W not only be nominated but predicted again he would be elected the next pre president j Borah reiterated that under tinder no circumstances ell cir would he consent to Wood r 1 Lowden Borah's Boraks attitude and the knowledge that Senator Kenyon was planning to get his committee Into ac ac- ion tion again soon after alter the San FranciscO Fran Fran- cisco convention ends were said to have nave contributed d to the willingness displayed at t the Blackstone co conferences confer confer- er- er to both Wood and Lowden 4 Col William Cooper Procter mil mil- soap manufacturer who admitted ad- ad having haying contributed more than palf half alf a million dollars to the Wood campaign fund was in close touch with them Governor Lowden through his campaign alin managers was also said Jo o 0 ha have been kept informed as to transpired |