Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1919 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

PRESIDENTIAL TEAPOT BOIL- = ING; LOWDEN IS BOOMED. - - z Chicago, Oct. 31.—The drive for Lowden-for-president delegates at next June’s republican national convention is now on. Friends of Gov. Lowden, who. have perfected a campaign organization and have opened headquarters here, have already announced that the Illinois delegates will be solid for Lowden, and that lowa will probably follow suit. David E. Shanahan, one of the Lowden boosters, who has just returned froiß a tour of the south, made this statement: *; ‘ indications ' were' pfevalefiV and very marked that Governor Lowden as a presidential possibility is appealing strongly to the representative men of the south. As the owner himself of a southern cotton plantation, the governor could meet on common ground with the men of the south. “Even at this early stage of the campaign it is a fair prediction that Governor Lowden will be the first choice of many of the national convention delegates froth the southern states.” The Lowden boosters do not expect to go to the republican national convention with a large number of instructed delegates. California concededly will instruct its delegates for Senator Johnson. Washington may instruct for Senator Poindexter. Minnesota, in the course of political events, readily would give an instructed delegation to Senator F. B. Kellogg. / Kansas may be found behind Governor Allen, but General Woods’ managers expect that state to set the ball rolling for General Wood. South Dakota, the first direct primary state to act, will be "fairground for all of the starters. The rest of the country, however/ barring a landslide that may set in at any moment for one of the above candidates, would be placed in the ‘Sininstructed” column in any table of states made up df men who have been playing the national political l