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Show 1 Presidential Who's Who; Candidates aM Dark Horses Name. Age. Birthplace Home. ' College. Profession. ! Leonard vWood 60 Winchester, N. H. Chicago. Harvard Doctor-Soldier Frank O. Lowden 59 Sunrise, Minn. Chicago. Northwestern Lawyer Herbert C. Hoover -1C West Branch, la. San Francisco. . Stanfard Mining Engineer Warren G. Harding 55 Corsica, O. Marlon, O. Ohio Central Editor Hiram W. Johnson 54 Sacramento, Cal. San Francisco. U. of California Lawyer Miles Poindexler 52 Memphis, Tenn. Spokane, Wash. Waahington & Lee Lawyer Calvin Coolidge 48 Plymouth, VL Boston. Amherst Lawyer Nicholas M. Butler 58 Elizabeth, N. J. New York. . Columbia Professor William C. Sproul 50 Octoraro, Pa. Chester, Pa. Pennsylvania Editor Philander C. Knox 67 Brownsville, Pa. Pittsburg. Mt. Union Lawyer . Howard Sutherland 55 KIrkwood, Mo. Elkins. V. Va. Wostnifnster Real" Estate Will H. Hayes 41 Sullivan. Ind. Sullivan, Ind. Wabash Lawyer ' Henry J. Allen 52 Warren-Co., Pa. Wichita, Kan. Washburn Editor Henry Cabot Lodge 70 Boston, Mass. Nahant, Mas. ' Harvard Lawyer . , William E. Borah 55 Fairfield, 111. Boise, Idaho. ; 'U. of Kansas Lawyer WHUam H. Thompson 52 Boston, Mass. Chicago. Real Estate James R. Garfield v. 55 Hiram O. Mentor, O. . Williams Lawyer Albert B. Cummins 70 Carmichaels. Pa. Des Moines, la. " '.Waynesburg Lawyer I Albert J. Beveridge t 58 Adams-Co., O. Indianapolis. J3ePauw Lawyer 1 Charles E. Hughes 68 Glen Falls, N. Y. New York. Colgate Lawyer i William H. Taft 63 Cincinnati, I. New Haven, Conn. Yale - Lawver 1 Booms, Near, Booms and Boomlets Offered At 6. 0. P. Chicago Convention BY EDWARD M. THIERRY. N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. CHICAGO. Boopis, hear-booms and boomlets center around more than a score of names in the Republican race for the presidential nomination. Brass band blares sound the praises for no less than:, a half a dozen. Conversation Con-versation all tho way from loud talk to mere whispers runs the list up to at least 21. ' , Somebody, not menUonedikiUreJJaU UtdssilJhltiefQ- MsaTbllP lies may win at ihe Chicago circus, but it's not likely. ; Here's the way the list stacks up: Active candidates: Wood, Hoover, Lowden, Johnson, Harding; Seml-activo candidates: Polndex-ter, Polndex-ter, Coolidge, Butler, Sproul. Boomed as candidates: 'Knox, Sutherland, Mays, Allen, .Thompson. Outside possibilities: Lodge, Borah, Garfield. Former candidates, possible, but improbable: im-probable: Taft, Hughes', Beveridge, i Cummins. Many Senators. Senators are in the majority with eight- Harding, Johnson, Poindexler, Lodge, Knox, Borah, Sutherland and Cummins. There are four governors j Lowden (Illinois), Coolidge (Massachusetts), (Massa-chusetts), Sproul (Pennsylvania), and Allen (Kansas). And one mayor Thompson (Chicago). Ex-statesmen include ex-President Taft. ex-Seriator Beveridge, ex-Governor .and ex-Supreme Court Justice Hughes, and ex-Secretary of the Interior In-terior Garfield. Wood, Hoover, Butler jand Hays havo nover held elective of- fice, though Hays is chairman of tho l Republican National committee. Of tho 21 in the list there are 13 lawyers, three editors, two real estate operators, one mining engineer, one p.rofessor and one doctor-soldier. Hays and Hoover. The youngest men mentioned are Hays, -11; Hoover, 4G, and Coolidge, 48. The oldest are Lodge and. Cummins, both 70. Three are in tho;r sixties Knox, G7; Taft, 63, and Wood, 60. Thirteen Thir-teen are in the fifties Lowden, 59; Butler, Hughes and Beveridge, 58; Harding. Borah. Garfield and Snfbpv- land, 55; Johnson, 54; Poiridexter, Allen Al-len and Thompson, 52, and Sproul, 50, Fourteen states are represented as birthplaces, Ohio and Pennsylvania leading with four each. Tho 21 arc residents of 13 different states. nn ' |