Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1920 — CHANCE FOR SEAT IS SMALL [ARTICLE]

CHANCE FOR SEAT IS SMALL

INDIANA TO GET 271 SEATS AT NATIONAL CONVENTION-— , ILLINOIS FARES BEST. Chicago, May 25.—1 t will be about as easy for a rich man to get into heaven as it will be for an Indiana man to get ipto the republican national convention, Idiana will have 271 seats out of a total of 13,289. Of the 271 the thirty delegates will receive two each and the thirty alternates one each. This leaves 181 to be distributed by James -A. Hemenway, of Booneville, national committeeman for Indiana. Illinois Has the Picking. Illinois will fare best in the matter of seats. The Chicago committee on national convention will receive 2,500 and the state of Illinois about 600, or a total of about 3,100, not far from one-fourth of all the seats. —' ■ Indiana delegates to the republican national convention, which meets in the Coliseum, June 8, will be within good hearing distance of the speaker’s platform. Indiana has the thirteenth choice of seats.

Names of state and territories on slips of paper were put in a box, shaken up and drawn out by Chesley Searcy, chairman of the Kentucky state committee, and Lafayette Gleason, of New York, who will be secretary of the national convention. The thirteenth draw was Indiana. • Whether No. 13 carries ill luck with it may depend on the delegates themselves. The order of choice of seats for delegations, as a result of drawing by lot follows: Connects cut, 1; Arkansas, 2; North Dakota, 3; Colorado, 4; Virginia, 5; California, 6; Kansas, 7;. New York, 8; Penssylvania, 9; Onio, 10; Delaware, 11; Massachusetts, 12; Indiana, 13; Kentucky. 14; Mississippi, 15; Illinois, 16; Washington, 17; and so, on, ending with 53. Method of Ticket Distribution. Persons entitled to tickets will be notified by letter and they will be directed to present their letters to the national committeeman of their state when he reaches Chicago. The national committeemen will fill out and issue the tickets of admission. “Things will be different this year from what they were in past national conventions,” says Mr. Henley. “In the past methods were rather slipshod. This year all tickets will be issued to the national committeemen of the state and distributed by them. All orders of admission will be filled out by the national committeemen. “There is not going to be any underground railroad method of getting into the convention this year. In past it has been customary, for doorkeepers to admit friends from their states. Persons would sometimes get in on badges, them send the badges out to serve to admit more persons. Must Have A Ticket. “This /year nobody gets in without a ticket, and this applies to ser-geants-at-arms and doorkeepers as well as anybody else. It’s so hard to get a ticket that we believe the holders of tickets should be protected against underground railroad methods.” . . , The national committee decided not to have doorkeepers and Ser-geants-at-arms chosen through political pulls this year. Soldiers are to have charge under command or Major General James A. Ryan, who led the column into Mexico m pursuit of Villa and who was with General Pershing in France. Mr. Henley says General Ryan consented to take charge on the unstanding that the men under him would be subject to no other au-

thority. . . .. . .. Mr. Henley says he regrets that it will be impossible to provide seats for all the republican editors of Indiana who have recently applied. The former Indiana secretary says he sent a letter out to the Indiana editors weeks ago telling them to apply Cor seats not later than Apnl 20, but many applications have come in since that time. The best chance for such applicants is that some persons of Indiana for whom seats have been assigned will not come to Chicago. In that event Mr. H«nenway may have a few for later distribution. . Letters making assignments or seats may be presented June 5 at the Congress hotel to the national committeeman, who will in turn issue tickets of admission.