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Show t ' I Boiled Down News ! I From Political Pot I tv , ATLANTA. Ga.. April 2. With the1 j withdrawal of President Wilson's I name by a number of Democrats who! I entered him in tho Georgia Demo- cratlc primary to be held April 20, ionly three candidates were left in the Irace when the entries closed y ester-1 iday. They are Attorney General Palmer, Pal-mer, straight-out advocate of the administration; ad-ministration; United Stales Senator ! Hoke Smith, of Georgia, who partially, ; indorses the administration, and who j j desires the treaty and league ratified I 'with reservations, nnd Thomas E. Wat-' i son, former populist candidate for ! president who "stands squarely ! against the league of nations." ' ! JACKSON, Miss.. April 2. Electing eight delegates at large to the Re-' publican national convention, each. I with one-half a vote, the Republican ; state convention has instructed them i to vote as a unit for Major General ,' i Leonard Wood., , ' CLEVELAND, April 2. General ! Leonard Wood, candidate for the Re- i i publican presidential nomination, tie-' livered an address at a Republican rai-; jly here. He denounced the candidacy I 'of a "favorite son" nnd nnholrl n svs. ' tern of compulsory military education as the "crying need of the youth of America." "There is a disposition now to point the finger pf acorn, at the uniform" the senral saidJicawlii: does 'iCirfsulta Uie memory ofevery dVad American in Prance." ; NEW YORK, April 2. Senator II i-1 i-1 ram W. Johnson Johnson, of California, Califor-nia, in an address here before leaving for Michigan to continue his campaign in that state for the Republican presidential presi-dential nomination, discussed the i league of nations and in doing so rc- furred to the "latest candidate for the I presidency." I Without men loning Herbert Hoover I by name. Mr. Johnson said: j "The latest candidate for tho presi- j dency a year ago argued for the adop-tion adop-tion of tho league of nations without the crossing of a T or the dotting of an 'i'. I observe now that since he has become a candidate, he, too, would welcome reservations. WASHINGTON, April 2. Plans for the Democratic national convention in San -Francisco will be discussed at a meeting of the committee on arrangements arrange-ments April 20 in Chicago. Chairman Cummings of the national committee announced that subcommittees recently recent-ly appointed to deal with specific convention con-vention matters would make their reports re-ports nt that time to the full committee. com-mittee. In connection with tho meeting, there will be a conference of the seventeen sev-enteen newly appointed women members mem-bers of the Democratic executive committee com-mittee with the national chairman and other organization officials. I BAY CITY, Mich., April 2. Gov. I Frank O. Lowddn of Illinois in a speech declared that Americanization was the most important work now before be-fore the people. Development through law, he said, was the first principle of Americanization. NEW YORK. April 2. A confiden-tial confiden-tial report to President Wilson bv Herbert Her-bert Hoover, in which the food administrator admin-istrator six months ago outlined his position on control of the Chicago packing industry, in response to the president's request, was made public by the Hoover national Republican club with the announcement that the president had directed Its .publication. "I scarcely need to repeat the views that I expressed to you nearly a year ago, that there is. here a growing'and ! dangerous domination of the handling! of the nation's food stuffs," the report" said. Mr. Hoover said he did not feel that the government "should undertake the solution of the problem by the tempo-J rary authority conferred" under the; war powors of. the rallwav and food administration,V-:bnt rather that it' should be laid before copgress for, searching consideration.'' |