Word: lowdenism
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...enactment of presidential primary laws, which provide a vast machinery that must be lubricated by much money. Nobody can get through its intricacies and achieve a nomination unless he expends much of his own money or somebody else's money. And now it has been shown that Governor Lowden spent several hundred thousand dollars of his own money, and General Wood and Senator Johnson spent several hundred thousand dollars of other people's money, a great hue and cry is raised...
...general opinion among impartial observers here is that neither Johnson, Wood or Lowden can be nominated. Both Lowden and Wood have the record of their campaign expenditures against them, while Johnson is too radical and has taken a too extreme attitude on the League of Nations to satisfy the majority of delegates. Out of this chaos the Old Guard must pick a man. To all appearances Senator Knox will be a likely choice...
After the first battle of delegates for Lowden, Wood and Johnson there will be, it seems likely now, a contest between Hughes, Johnson and Knox. Knox is the most apparent compromise. If this latter contest results in a deadlock there is a potent chance for Coolidge or some other man who is little known and has made few enemies...
...Guard is still in the saddle--so the word comes from Chicago--and with it comes the prediction that not Wood, not Johnson, not Lowden will be the choice of the Republican party, but that some other will be selected by the convention. In other words it may not be a candidate who has been discussed in public, who has been put up for the approval of the people, who will be finally chosen, but a man agreed upon by a group of politicians sitting in a room in the Congress Hotel, a group playing off one faction against another...
...scores of the ballots are as follows: First ballot, Hoover 1239, Leonard Wood 968, Frank O. Lowden 173, Hiram Johnson 156; second ballot, Hoover 1397, Wood 1125, Johnson 52; third ballot, Hoover 1447, Wood...