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Show G. 0. P. PROGRAM TAKES FORM I Nominating Speeches to Be j Made Next Thursday Ac- ; cording to Indications WOMEN READY TO PICKET CONVENTION; Unpledged Delegates Hold Bal-; ance of Power; Prophets : Hesitate to Name Victor CHICAGO, June 2. Nominating speeches in tho Republican national convention next week probably will come on Thursday, with balloting on Frldav. L. W. Henley, secretary of arrangements ar-rangements committtce. announced; today. Following tho keynote speech of Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, temporary chairman, and appointment of committees on Tuesday. Mr. Hen -'ley said the convention probably, i would adjourn until Wednesday for (committee work. Permanent organization, rules and I order of business are on Wednesday's I tentative program. After the nominating nomi-nating speeches. Thursday. Mr. Hen-lv Hen-lv .said Oio tentative program would leave Friday and Saturday -and possibly possi-bly partof TJiuraday fo..bjLUjaU.mj and consideration of platform. Caucuses Monday. On Monday preceding tho opening of tho convention, caucuses of mam state delegations aro scheduled to select se-lect national committeemen and make committee nominations. There arc more than 150.000 applications appli-cations for tickets for 13.2S9 seats. I Mr. Heslcy atatcd, and 1100 applications applica-tions for 5"(C press seats. Increased I interest of women in politics was assigned as-signed by Mi;. lieiilcy as a reason for 'the ticket demands. Distribution of tickets is to begin next Saturday, through national committeemen. Forces Catherine:. Political forces are gathering slow-lv slow-lv here and while the prc-convcntlon c'ircle has its usual line of gossip and prediction, no political leader of rcc-joRnized rcc-joRnized importance has up to this time been willing to attacli his name to a definite prediction of whom the convention will name as Its candidate or when it Is likely to do it. The end of the week with tthc probable adjournment ad-journment -of congress, however, will I bring all the national leaders -to Cht-icago Cht-icago and by Saturday or Sunday contention con-tention plans are expectod to begin taking definite form. Women to Picket. I Representatives of tho militant I branch of the woman suffragists are on tho ground preparing to picket the 'convention hall to enforco their demand de-mand for a platform declaration call-I call-I ing on tho states which have not ratl-, ratl-, fled the woman suffrage amendment to do so at once. The national committee com-mittee yesterday by unanimous vote called upon all Ropubllcan states to act promptly on the ratification. The 'national committeemen are enjoying a Joke at the expense of General T. Coleman Duponi, of Delaware, who Introduced In-troduced the resolution. The general' motion called for prompt ratification ,of the eighteenth amendment, which is tho prohibition amendment- The resolution was passed in that form, but nftor tho mistake was discovered, lit wa.n corrected. I Johnson Is Coming. The Johnson forces are counting on I a burst of speed with the arrival of Senator Johnson here tomorrow. A street parade and demonstration haa been arranged. A large delegation of service men who saw service with the American forces in Siberia which the senator fought to havo returned home, will be in the escort. Senator Harding is coming also on Thursday. General Wood is hero and at his headquarters at Fort Shoridan, and Governor Lowden already is here' Day after tomorrow four of tho presidential presi-dential candidates will bo on tho ground conferring with their forces in person and a more definite lino of pre-convcntlon speculation probably will be one of the first results Balance of Power. In the coming convention, tho un-instructed un-instructed delegates are holding the balance of power and already plans for aounding out their preferences aro boing discussed. A caucus of the un-instruoted un-instruoted ones some time after Sunday Sun-day is one of the plans being canvassed. canvass-ed. Quite Irrespective of any decisions decis-ions tho national com mitteo may make on the pending contests, tho unin-slructed unin-slructed delegates will still remain in tho majority and the managers of tho various candidates aro working on piano to bring them to their support. Such discussion of the platform planks as la going on among tho national na-tional committeemen secma to Indl-cato Indl-cato that a majority feel that the prohibition pro-hibition question may Imj regarded as one not nocossarily to bo included, because be-cause the issue has been written into tho constitution and has becomo tho law of tho land. Many committeemen feci that the suffrago question Is a parallel one In many respects because . ' r f Continued, on,-Pan-Three,. I v" Berst of Speed Looked for as Chiefs Gather. (Continued frcm page 1.) It has been put before the states with tho endorsement of the party ami is awaiting ratification. In the- field of foreign relations there seems to be an agreement of opinion that the Mcxi-Ican Mcxi-Ican plank will follow the pronounco-iment pronounco-iment of four years ago in which the Democratic administrations policy was denounced, and as regards the peace treaty and the league of nations, na-tions, the plunk adopted by the Indi-'ana Indi-'ana state Republican convention may , serve as a nucleus for tho plunk in I the. national platform. No one on the 'ground as yet presumes to venturo what the labor plank will be but there seems to be a common agreement that it will probably be the most difficult one to frame. Permanent Chairman. The selection of a permanent chairman chair-man seems to have made no progress ir. the last three or four days. Thoro is now less talk among national committeemen com-mitteemen oT the selection of former Senator Boveridge. of Indiana, and more talk of an agreement on Senator McCprmick, of Illinois. Political leaders lead-ers 'here who are supporting Senator McOormlck claim to l .vvo thcipproval of Senator Ponrose for their choice. If a contest should develop over the selection, there is always the possibility possi-bility that tho convention might re-j vfrt to the plan it followed in 1912 1 and 1316 and make the temporary or-J ganizatlon tho permanent one. A delegation fro in the Philippine islands, headed by. Jaime do -Veyra, j lias arrived In Chicago to urge tneJ adoption of a full independence platform plat-form declaration by the Republican party. "By the Jones law of August 29, 1916." declared Mr. de Veyra, "tho Philippines were promised their independence inde-pendence ns soon as stable government govern-ment could be established oik the: islands. The Philippines have that stable government today. America's' official representative In the Philip-! pines testifies to its existence." . i |