Show I Ga PD CHEFS DI C IN I IN N MIN Scores cores of Receptive Candidates C tes Are Are Represented Represented Rep Rep- Rep Rep-I resented r at Meeting Fight Fight ight for if Convention r. r-r. W TV AS rON N I ee 9 W VV With m most st of th national lati nal leaders of the R Republican p a i party assembled her here Viand and others arriving arriving arriving ar ar- ar- ar riving on every train Washington Washing Washing- ton was wa alive today with g gossip over candidates and issues for the campaign campaign campaign cam cam- of or 1920 The gathering was incidental to the meeting of ot the national committee which convenes Wednesday to select the place and time of ot the national convention con con- next summer The fight for forthe forthe forthe the convention was between Chicago and St. St Louis but it attracted only passing passin attention compared to the activities activities activities ac ac- ac- ac of ot the friends of ot presidential possibilities and the conference over questions of ot party policy LIGHTNING RODS RAISED Friends of ot every ery Republican prominently prominently prominently mentioned for the presidential nomination were wele busy the managers ers Continued on page pogo 9 9 G. G O. O P. P CHIEFS Continued from pa page e 1 for General Leonard Wood and Gi Governor Goy Gov y- y Prank Frank O. O Lowden of Illinois being beIng being be be- be- be ing among the first to get working orI organization organization or or- I under wa way Ohio sent a delegation to further the interests s of at Senator Warren arren G G. G Harding of that state and the supporters of or Senators Miles Poindexter of ot Washington and Hiram W W. Johnson Jphnson of ot California also were ere at work worl ASK WATSON TO RUN What was regarded in many quarters quarters I ter as the formal launching of ot a a. b boom om for Senator James K E. Watson of ot In Indiana Indiana Indiana In- In I diana also was the subject of ot much talk among the committeemen and their guests For the time being tho the movement was in charge of or Indiana's Republican members of ot the house who waited on Senator Watson last night and ur urged td him to bec become me a a. candidate Senator Watson Vatson has announced he was not a a. candidate for the presidency but would be in the race to succeed himself 8 as senator Ills His friends as assert assert as- as s sert however that the Indiana state CI will In instruct its delegates delegat s for him and that an active campaign campal n nIn in his behalf will be made JUNE 8 IS S SUGGESTED Talk today ar about out a convention date I pointed to June 8 many of the tiro leaders expressing a a. preference nce for the first full week weel in that month and declaring the custom of calling the convention to order on Wednesday Wednes Wednes- Wednesday day should be abandoned because of ot the resulting resulting- congestion of ot business that always has developed toward the close of ot convention week At its meeting tomorrow the committee com om- om Is expected c formally to approve approve ap- ap prove pro the plan of Will II Hays the national ch chairman lr lP to make malte the limit of ot Individual campaign contributions 1000 1000 |