Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1919 — CHICAGO TO GET 1920 G. O. P. CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO TO GET 1920 G. O. P. CONVENTION.

’Washington, D. C., Dec. B.—[Special.] —The place: Chicago. The time: June 8, 1920. This is the forecast for the republican national convention, based on the views of republican leaders arriving in Washington today for the meeting of the national committee on The choice lies between Chicago and St. Louis, with Asbury Park, N. J., trying to horn in. St. Louis has a big delegation of boosters and a $40,000 certified check, while Fred Upham and his aggregation of unsurpassed convention getters will arive tomorrow well heeled to satisfy the "committee that Chicago is the ideal place. “After ajl, there is only one convention city in the country,” said a seasoned committeeman tonight. “As usual, we will listen to all the claimants and then, in my opinion, vote overwhelmingly for Chicago.” Chairman Will H. Hays was on the job early today, talking republican “shop,” and suavely assuring all comers that the convention would be held “somewhere during the first half of June.” Committeeman John T. King, of Connecticut, came in exuding enthusiasm for the nomination of Gen. Leonard Wood. He already sees almost enough edelgates in the offing for the selection of the general on the first ballot. New England he pust down as solid for Wood, with the exception of Massachusetts; which will go into the convention for Coolidge “on the first ballot.” The Lowden boomers will be here tomorrow, prepared to demonstrate that the Illinois governor, is the foremost aspirant in the field. It is a fact that Wood and Lowden are by far the most widely discussed of all the candidates. But biding the main event with unruffled confidence are Senators Harding, of Ohio; Johnson, of California; and Poindexter, of Washington; Governor Goodrich, of Indiana; Gov. Coolidge, -of Massachusetts, and others: “Responses to my letter to senators, congressmen, state and county chairmen, 5,000 in all, indicate that the people are strongly opposed to Wilson because of maladministration, extravagance and waste in public expenditures and the socialistic tendency of his regime,” Mr. Hays said. “People appear to be saying pretty generally that they bought liberty bonds and the administration wasted their money. v “The replies show a general cry for Americanism and for forceful measures to put down lawlessness and establish law and order. The Massachusetts yesult is dwelt ipon in this connection. Economv, lower taxes and settlement of the labor question are demands that run through all the replies. The peace treaty, leagtie of nations, Mexico, and prohibition, I find mentioned only occasionally.”