The Sunday Oregonian., June 13, 1920, Section One, Page 6, Image 6

THE SUNDAY ; OREGOCTAK, PORTLAND, JUNE 13, 1920
PARTY CHIEFS' PUN
CARRIES PERFECTLY
Harding Nomination . Bit of
Clever Engineering.
OHIOAN LOGICAL CHOICE
Chances lor General Wood and Illi
nois Governor ISadly Damaged
by Expense Disclosures.
(Continued From First Pas.)
Handing to act under common leader
ship aa a balance of power It was
that group that was now accomplishing-
what must obviously be their first
purpose that is to prevent Wood
lrom winning.
They were setting about it. They
were under way. They were doing
it. scientifically, easily, comfortably.
So things stood when adjournment
came. That adjournment was dictated
by the anti-Wood forces. It did no
damage to Wood and was not an un
friendly act against the Wood forces.
But It was the anti-Wood forces who
dictated it, who had the power and
exercised the power, whether it should
be done or not.
Leader I'erfectly Serene.
After the adjournment jour corre
spondent rode home with the leader
of the balance-of-power group. He
was perfectly serene and confident.
I asked him why they had brought
about the adjournment. He said it
was because it was the decent thins
to do. He said it was the part of
fair play and sportsmanship. It was
a gesture of generosity. He said
they had complete control of the sit
uation and it was a gentlemen's ob
ligation to give the Wood forces a
chance to reassemblo and see what
they could do overnight. They were
entitled to a chance to see what
combinations they could make for
further defense, or, if they admitted
defeat, what they could do in the
way of salvage.
At the hotel your correspondent
went to see Frank Hitchcock. He
was perfectly cool, perfectly collected
even a little more self-restrained,
more rigidly repressed, than usual. A
situation had arisen which called for
the most penetrating and concentrated
intelligence; that was all. A decidedly
impressive figure he was. A cold, hard
fighter, with perfect self-command
as his lieutenants began to come in
for conference. Tour correspondent
left and went to bed. More things
would happen during the night than
any one man could see or hear. As
to some of thorn, they could readily
be guessed. The rest would appear
when the balloting began in the
morning.
Eventful Morning; Conies.
The morning came. Through a
miasmic fos of fluttering rumor and
surmise you made your way to the
Coliseum. The air was vibrant with
exejted talk, aiid the mark and color
of;?the talk that would have caught
th attention of anyone new to it
wai the curious coupling of two surnames,-
Knox and Johnson, Harding
and Coolidge, Ijowdcn and Harding,
Sproul and Allen. Home of the com
binations any informed person knew
were ridiculous. Anyhow, the ballot
ing would tell. But to the familiar
cat1 there was one other noticeable
feature of the talk. In none of the
combinations did Wood's name ap
pear. At the Coliseum the session opened.
Thi chaplain made his prayer.. The
chairman announced that the secre
tary had an announcement to mako.
Th(j audience became breathless.
Surely the announcement would be
vital. It would be the result of some
of.'4these midnight conferences. It
wqjlld announce a withdrawal. Over
the heads of the tensely expectant
audience the bulky secretary spread
hi.hands. He opened his mouth. He
sar$ something aborit mail for the
delegates accumulating at the post
office. The audience laughed uncom
fortably. Then the balloting began.
; Arizona Chairman Sticks.
Alabama showed no change. When
Arisona came, the chairman of the
delegation arose, showing clearly in
mtfnner and in voice that he was sen
sitive of the situation. With the air
of a man who will sitand with his
hac to the wall till the last ballot
he barked out "Arizona casts six votes
tor General Wood." He's a loyal
Wood man, that Arizona chairman.
Loyalty and detcrniina I ion to stick
showed In every tone of his voice. But
he could not conceal the consciousness
of being on the defensive.
At Arkansas came the first renewal
of the anti-Wood tactics. One Arkan
sas delegate switched from Wood to
lyowden. At Colorado came a varia
tion of the same tactics. Two votes
that had been for Wood went away
from him. Then came a blow that
made Wood partisans gasp a little.
XependaMe . Kansas, Henry Allen's
Kajisas. began to break, from 14 for
"SVsod in the last ballot last night he
fell down to 10. Then at Missouri
caO'e a blow. Five of Wood's dele
gates left him. When New York came
it was apparent that the two factions
in Jhat state recognized that the tuj?-of-war
had come. Wood went up from
20 to 24, a rise of 4, hut Lowden went
up! rrom 32 to 42. The machine was
, working.
Break From Juhnson On.
At New Jersey came more evidence
of J.he inevitable break from Johnson.
One vote left him and went to Hard
ing. At Oregon the inevitable drift of
the delegates that Johnson had under
duress began. Three of his eight left
hirti. One of them went to Lowden
and another to Harding. And now
came Texas. There, for the first time,
we got the sure sign of what was being-
done. Up to the present it had
been solely a case of beating Wood
with Lowden, now came signs of the
next purpose to substitute Harding
for Lowden. Lowden. in his turn, was
to be beaten and Harding was to be
made the winner.
The Texas delegates arc just the
kind who are most easily subservient
to . programme like that. On the last
ballot last night Wood had had eight
delegates from Texas. Now, on the
firtst ballot this morning, they gave
him only 81a. Lowden last night had
S'.Ti. This morning they gave Lowden
8i. That was the thing that at
tracted the attention and marked the
beginning of a new trend. They were
taking1 delegates away from Wood,
hut they were not giving them to
Lowden, or they were giving them to
someone else. That someone else was
Harding. Harding last night had only
4 M delegates from Texas, this morning-
be had eight.
. Senate Group Confident.
The balloting- went on for a while
without any high spots. At the Dis
trict of Columbia there was a human
equation. When it was called, a light,
but - trenchant volc snapped out, in
two sharp syllables. "Wood two." It
was a faithful Wood adherent, seeing
how things were going and showing
byi his voice that ho would stick to
the last ditch. It sounded as sharp as
rifle shots. ' "
The end of the first ballot, this
morning- showed how confident were
the senatorial group who possessed
the balance of power. We had all
expected that this first ballot this
morning would be Wood's peak, and
although we all felt that he was go
ing? to be beaten, we did not expect
to see him begin to fail until after
he had won another ballot. But the
balance of power group were confi
dent, in this first ballot this morning
they gave Wood only 299 and Lowden
303. Lowden had passed Wood. The
audience, seeing it only superficially,
cheered and yelled.
The crowd thought it was merely a
case of two runners and one beating
the other, but those of us who could
see deeper knew well that the other
programme was under way.
Situation Clears Fast.
The next ballot began the second
of the day. Alabama, no change. Ari
zona stood fast for Wood, as always.
In Colorado Wood lost one. Con
necticut had no significance. None
of the other states had. any signifi
cance until we got down to Indiana.
There it became increasingly appar
ent Just what was happening. On the
previous ballot Wood had had 18 from
Indiana, Harding only four and John
son five. Now two were taken away
from Wood and one of them given to
Lowden. At Maine Frank Hitchcock
began to call on his Wood reserves.
One Maine delegate had been voting
for Hoover, with the assent of the
Wood forces. But now that vote
could no longer be wasted on Hpover.
It was called back and for the first
time Maine voted her solid delegation
of 12 for Wood. Next ame Mary
land, and Maryland still stood fast
for Wood. There have been uneasy
rumors about this Wood delegation
from Maryland. - Sooner or later part
of it would prove disloyal and turn
away.
Then came Michigan, and here the
real Johnson break legan. We had
expected it in the last ballot, but
there was every disposition to be con
ciliatory to Johnson, and he was per
mitted to have Michigan for one bal
lot longer than he might reasonably
have expected it. In the break John
son still kept 18. Lowden got 1 and
Wood got 11. Johnson would not be
able to keep all of those 18. Oh fu
ture ballots more of them would leave
him to go to Wood or Lowden.
Johnson Break Continues.
This break away from Johnson con
tinued as soon as Nebraska was
reached. "Ten Nebraska delegates had
been voting for Johnson. Now six of
them quit and went where they were
much needed to Wood. New fork
was passed on this ballot witnout
substantial change. When Ohio was
reached It was very evident that
there was strife In that delegation.
Quite naturally so. Harding had most
of the delegates from that state. He
had 39 of them, while Wood had only
nine.
That alignment 9 and 39 re
mained the same up to this ballot, but
we all knew that several of these 39
delegates were not loyal to Harding
and were voting for him only under
duress. They counted on leaving him
and going to Wood, where their hearts
were. But now came the complica
tion. They now saw that Harding
was to be the man the leaders Tyould
try to nominate and Harding was a
son of their own state. Under thefe
circumstances should they keep their
promise to leave him? There was
turmoil in the delegation, someone
demanded a rollcall. The balloting
ceased and the secretary called the
names of the 48 men. The result was
that four delegates left Harding and
went to Wood. The result of this
ballot was that Wood and Lowden
were exactly even at 311.
The thoughtless in the crowd got
excited. They thought it was all a
race between two men, whereas the
truth is that it was apparently all in
Harding's favor. Harding now was
up to 89. In the next ballot the slip
ping away f rflm Wood continue-! to
be conspicious. It was siooth and
well managed... It was done chiefly in
the southern states, where the dele
sates are most susceptible to ma
chine management. In this ballot, for
example, 7 were taken away from
Wood in Tennessee.
f Management la Perfect.
The end of this ballot showed that
laborious anl complicated, but Jiigh
ly artful, process by which the thing
was managed. By this time the in
tention to push Harding forward was
plain, even to the uninitiated. What
the balance of power group was doing
was carefully to shift the delegates
they controlled. They did not take
the delegates directly away from
Wood and Lowden and give them
them straight away to Harding. They
shifted them about from place to
place. Only an acute observer could
follow the process. At the end of
this ballot, for example. Wood and
Lowden were practically unchanged.
Wood had 312 and Lowden 311., but
Harding had come up from 89 to 105.
All the time Hitchcock was draw
ing on his reserves. The elimination
of Johnson released them to him. He
called up from Massachusetts occa
sionally. On the very last ballot, be
fore the rece-.is, Hitchcock dragged up
half a delegate from Florida, which
was supposed to be one of his private
personal stores of delegates. Again
in this last ballot he called up a dele
gate from Nebraska. Wood's score in
that state went up from 13 to 14.
99
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Through It all certain states stood
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75 for Sproul and one for Knox.
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