Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1919 — WOOD PROBABLE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE—PREDICTION. [ARTICLE]

WOOD PROBABLE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE —PREDICTION.

New Y6rk, Aug. 31.—-For president —Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, of New Hampshire. For vice president—Governor Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois. Ormsby McHarg looked up from a mass of confidential letters from republicans in many places as he made the prediction today that. the foregoing ticket would be nominated by the republican national convention next year. . The man who used to ride the country for Theodore Roosevelt prior to national conventions, went on: “Three months ago .1 prophesied that Gen. Wood would head the republican national ticket. “Since then, through reports from practically every state, I have made up my mind that Wood and Lowden will be the republican national team in 1920. “I shall be surprised if Gen. Wood does not very soon’ resign from the army and frankly proclaim that he is going to be a candidate for president, especially if either Woodrow Wilson or William McAdoo is to be the democratic nominee. “I know that very intimate friends of Gen. Wood have urged him to quit the army and permit them to organize a nation-wide movement in his behalf. -“They argued that he would be greatly handicapped should he remain in the army, of which President Wilson is commander-in-chief, and allow his admirers to subject him to unnecessary criticism by fighting his superior officer politically or otherwise. Out of the army he is a private citizen, and would be justified in announcing that he is ready to run if ribminated. “My advices from the west are that Governor Lowden will not be a candidate for the first place if Gen. Wood is. “Lowden’s friends have assured me that he would be delighted to be Gen. Wood’s running mate.”