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Show Southern Contestants Arrive Early and Buttonhole Those in Authority nurn a i i r on t-v, Aiay .J. .ueicgaios xo tho Republican national convention from all sections of tho country flocked into Chicago today. A majority ma-jority of the early arrivals were from southern states and a large proportion pro-portion were negroes contesting for seats "In tho convention. The national commlttee'3 hearing on 137 contests will start Monday and the arrivals ' buttonholed members mem-bers of tho party's governing body at overy opportunity in an effort to present advance arguments for their claims. Make Nomination Talk Campaign managers for the announced an-nounced presidential aspirants wore perfecting tHelr plans for the actual ac-tual work in tho convention. Shortly after Wood headquarters announced that Gov. H. J. Allen of Kansas, had been selected to make tho principal nominating speech for General Wood, it was announced that George H. Walker of Seattle, had been choson to perform a similar office for Senator Sen-ator Miles Poindexter of Washington. Washing-ton. These announcements .'completed .'com-pleted the li3t of the principal candidates can-didates except Gov. . Lowden and Herbert Hoover. C. B. Miller, acting secretary of tho national commltteo was busy throughout the day arranging for tho committee meeting Monday. Will . II. Hays, natiorial chairman of the committee will arrive tomorrow. tomor-row. Mr. Hays' first official act will be , to entertain the newspaper correspondents corres-pondents at luncheon, when he will discuss with those committeemen who may be hero, the selection of a permanent convention chairman. One of the probloms which confronts con-fronts the committee is the reducing re-ducing of over-sized delegations to a size which will permit of their bo-Ing bo-Ing seated In the space reserved for delegates. According to Secretary Miller a majority of these cases resulted from attempts to harmonize factions in various states and vhen the delegations delega-tions were asked to cut down their membership to' conform to the convention con-vention call, the same old probloms bobbed up again. Same, Ohl Problems Undiminished confidence was reflected re-flected in the announcements tonight to-night from the Lowden, Wood and Johnson managers. The Lowden camp emphasized an announcement by Jacob Haman of Oklahoma that tho delegates from that state would vote solidly for tho Illinois executive. execu-tive. The Hoover headquarters took on added activity with tho arrival of a largo force of workers from New York. Thcro was a steady stream of callers at Harding headquarters. Mayor Thompson today appointed a committee to -welcome the Republican Repub-lican national convention delegates. It was announced that 2,000 automobiles automo-biles and six bands had been placed at the use of the committee. |