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Show t 7 n. I Boiled Down News From Political Pot 1 V : ABERDEEN, S. D.. March 1. Sena-' tor Hiram W. Johnson of Caljffirnla.! indc-pendent Republican candidate for president at the March primaries, will lnunch his South Dakota campaign In a speech here tonight. Senator wohn- son arrived this morning from North Dakota where he had been enmpaign-: Ing. He will make five speeches In the slate. ; BISMARCK, N. D., March 1 Major uonerai Leonard Wood will not file u i petition as a candidate at the North1 Dakota presidential preference pri-, ;mary on March 16. it was announced' here today. j CHICAGO, March 1. General Leon-: srd Wood and Senator Miles Poindex-. tor will hold a joint debate at Pierre.' S. D.. on Mjfrch 20. three days before tho South Dakota primary, Wood headquarters announced today. General Wood will spend from March 15 v to. March 20 touring the state. ! ! LANSING, Mich., March 1. Closing at noon today of the filing time for' nominations in Michigan's presidential! 'preference primary April 5, showed; that seven candidates will appear on' the Republican and five on the Demo-! cratic ticket with Herbert Hooveron I both ballots. , j , I WASHINGTON. Feb. 20 Five Dem- I ocrats and five Republicnns who have oeen mentioned as possible presidential presiden-tial candidates join in urging ratification ratifi-cation of the suffrage amendment in time for women to vote for president next November. They include: Major General Leonard Wood, Governor Gov-ernor Lowden of Illinois; Senators Harding of Ohio: Poindextcr of Washington, Wash-ington, and Johnson of palifornia; Republicans; Re-publicans; and Senator Owen-, of Oklahoma. Ok-lahoma. Attorney General Palmer. William G. McAdoo. James W. Gedord and W. J. Bryan. Democrats. , Thirty-three of the necessary 3C states have ratified the amendment. J'auuu, i. jj., March l. Representatives Represen-tatives of the Non-Partisan league today to-day were making efforts to get enough signatures to place the league's ticket of delegates and presidential elector candidates on the-ballot for the Republican Repub-lican presidential primary election on ' March IS. ' Tho supreme court at Bismarck re-j re-j fusedto assume urisdictlon in the suit .brought by the non-partisans to com-I com-I pel the secretary of state to accept , their petitions. Other candidates of other factions have filed individual pe-! titions in accordance with the secretary's secre-tary's ruling that only individual petitions peti-tions are permissible under the law. CHICAGO, March 1. Governor Frank O. Lowden's presidential cam-' paign managers here made public a letter written to him by Colonel Theo I dore Roosevelt shortly after Lowden was elected governor, in which the former for-mer president expressed the hope that the governor would "assume a position of leadership In the Republican party." Colonel Roosevelt's letter dated Sagamore Sag-amore Hill, November 14, 19ld, follows: fol-lows: "Dear Governor: Let me heartily congratulate you. I earnestly hope you will now assume a position of leader ship. We need leadership. What I most desire is that you shall bring the Republicans far enough forward to em j able us to hold the progressives far ! enough back to keep a substantial j alignment," COATESVILLE, Pa., Feb. 29. President Pres-ident Wilson's participation in the Adriatic Ad-riatic controversy was made the basis for an arraignment of the league of nations by Senator Poindoxter, Repub-lican.Wash Repub-lican.Wash iugton, here in a speech in which he pointed to that dispute as indicative of the futility of the idea "that peace can be brought to the world merely by giving up the inde- 1 pendencc of the several nations and uniting them all under one central authority." |