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than seven weeks from to-day|

the Republican nomination will be made. Who the nominees will be is not any clearer now than it has been at any time heretofore.

And in the six weeks and a day which will elapse before the consention opens there is not any event now foreseeable which will make the outcome more easily predictable than it now is The most probable thing that can be said about the situation is that) it will be an open convention in which the nomiaza will be deter

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POPULARITY OF OPERA IN ENGLISH.

mined chiefly by events occurring Jahnson was the only candidate within the convention after it opena:

It is still true, as it it always

entered

in

that 50 won the

there.

State, and -Presidential But. As-

ery one of the individual delegates

has been, that Gen. Wood has primary more drst-choice delegates in- structed for him, or otherwise elected from North Dakota is in CLOSE OF A PROSPEROUS

his heart favourable to another

candidate or candidates.

SEASON.

favourable to him, than any other candidate. But the nomination

The usual ceremonial marked is going to be determined not by JOHNSON CAN SWING VOTES. the end of the Beecham opera first-choice delegaten, dus by sec-

Bat if Johnson cannot swing season at Covent Garden. After ond-choice delegates. Even if

delegates in the convention he the final fall of the curtain there Gen. Wood should have the

can swing voters in the election. were endless cheers and innumer most exceptional good fortune hat has been clearly damonsable calls, culminating in requests in the various primaries trated in the campaign thus far is for a speech, to which Sir Thomas next week- and throughout that Johnson has a large and Beecham, who had been conduct- the remainder of the campaign, it definite following among the ing "The Mastersingers," turned, is still difficult to compute where voters. It is probably a larger fol. The speech was a disappoint. he can get much more than halflowing than any other one can ment to all who expected to be the number ofdelegates necessary didate has, except Hoover. This told something about the plans to nominate. (The total number following is in a

true sanse a for the Grand Season; but from

nominate 493) The actuarial

of delegates is 934-necessary to political asset belonging to Joan-another source it was learnt that son personally. The possession the probable data of the opening politicians who figure closely on of it puts him in a strong position is Monday, May 10.

such matters say that about 280

is the maximum that Gen. Wood can expect to bave on the first ballot. He may have appreciably

less.

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The

The season just closed bad bean, Sir Thomas said, the most prosperous be bad had, popularity of opers in English had grown with amazing rapidity. not only in London but all over the country, so that now opera in English was the rule, opers in foreign tongues the exception.

as respects the Republican party leaders as a whole. Possessing this following. he is able, to a certain extent, to make terms with the parts organization and with If this estimate is correct, Cien- the successful candidate, who- Wood

now depend forever that may be. success upon the ability of his Of course it is also true that managers to secure for him about the only way Senator Johnson can |259 additional-delegates, more or enforce his terms is by threat

A company collected from all less, who will vote for him asther to bolt or to sulk in the over the world might give us möts second choice after they have campaign after the convention. variety none the less, be made ceased, for one reason or another. How far he is likely to make such bold to say that the performances to vote for their art choice. For threat, or to enforce it, is given by his company had been the getting of these second-choice matter of his individual tempera- nearly as good as those given by

in the world. delegates Gen. Wood is handi- ment the basidised once, in the anisation in capped beyond any of the other

cational election of 1912, and his candidates. He and his managers enemies charge that an another have followed a policy of stern pression, in 1916, he sulked. and warfare against every other by sulking permitted California candidate. That

ve to go for Wilson and thereby good policy

provided defest Hughes. Against this lat successful enough to roll up a charge of sulking Jobson majority the first ballos friends believe that he has a good But lacking that degree of suc defence, but the net of his past cess, it is a poor polies, for it history and his present strength creates bitterness and arouses is that he is in a position not 50 nities which make delegates much to wing delegates in the and leaders dish lined to turn to convention as to demand agree- the aggressor. in the campaignlable treatment anebbe part of the so far Gen. Wed has lived to inchar. leaders. Undoubtedly. in the sword, and in the convention the negotiations which are bound be muss abode by the sword to go on within the convention Americanization may or may However. Frank Bitebroek liseli and in the smaller rooms now supposed to be angazed upon where leaders ment privately.sult of a movement just started a cumshe panding up of the there will be a disposition to take required number of second-choice Johnsa into the party counsels Idelegate. He a operating in great secrees. What surrass he he having none of us will be peri mitted to know until the con- vention opens.

HARDING HAS FOURTH

PLACE.

He promised that in a fe they would be quite as good. In six months time he would have He fulfilled half his promise. said it may be six months before opera in English is beard at Covent Garden 3310”--00: that it will be: which perhaps means that English will be beard during the Grand Season.

PAN- ERMANS BUSY.

PROPAGANDA PLANNED.

not receive a setback as the re-

in Germany. The Deutscher Stadentendienst, a society established in Germany only short while before the outbreak of the war, is planning to carry on a vigorous campaign in foreign countries by way of keeping the Sreat number of Germans who are planning to emigrate in touc

The society with the fatherland. bas issued an appeal which reads in pars as follows:

"The German Government and

Probably the Burth strongest LOWDEN'S CHANCES,

eudidate on the opening ballots will be Senator Harding of Chit Low, Lowden of Illinois con- and yet it is just possible that if inues, as heretofore, to be likely all, or nearly all, of New York's to have the second largest num- eighty-eight delegates cast their ber of delegates on the first ballot, est ballot for Nicholas Murray When it comes to getting addi- Butler it may happen that the tional delegates from

other latter will have more delegates the German people mus:do every candidates who drop out, or from than Harding. Regardless of the thing in their power to establish delegates who

change their actual number of delegates, ha newspapers and theatres and allegiance for on another, Governor Lowden is four, and Butler is not. These foreign countries, so that those reason or ever. Harding is among the first make preparations for schools, lectures and moving pictures in in a much better position than first four-Wood, Lowden, John. Gen. Wood. The feeling among son and Harding-are in a classol our people who are forced to} delegates and leaders alike is apart. These are the four who seek material fortune abroad may

to a

[generally friendly to him.

Senator Johnson of California convention

are expected to fight it out on the not jose their spiritual interest in

flor-either

the land that gave them birth. has the third largest number of finish or else to a deadlack of such In all foreign localities where delegates on the first ballot. In firmness and complexity that there are a considerable number the campaige he has had some they all eliminate themselves.

of Germans, arrangements shoold spectacular successes, and thesel All other candidates than these be made for concerts of German] bave given him credit for a four

music, excursions, meetings, and are classified as dark strength in the convention beyond horses.

so on, so that the feeling of com what be is likely actually to A fairly large number of land may find the least possible plete separation from the mother- develop. It is commonly said. Repablican leaders and delegates for example, that Senator Johnson are acting upon the theory that can prevent the nomination of the nomination will go to a dark only a part of the manifesto. K any one he doesn't like, and that horse. At least they are goiding be can swing his delegates this their own course of action on the

encouragement."

This sounds familiar. But it is

goes on:

"Of course, this work

way or that way. It is not true theory that it will be. This groun must be carried on in a perfectly | any large number of delegates some of the most powerful of the eventual political results. There

at

Tust be no ulterior squinting at that he can swing this way or that old-time Republican loaders. way. The number of delegates that Among them they have an

must be no hostility toward the

he can swing will not be so large aggregate of fully as many dele- country whose 'hospitality and

opportunities for private better-

Виррат.

as the number who will feel gates as Gen. Wood is likely to obliged to vote for him. For base, and more than any other ment the individual spjoys. It is example Johnson carried Mich candidate is likely to have. If question of maintaining our igan, every one of the thirty this group of leaders and dele- found to the end that they may traditions wherever Germans are delegates from that State must gates of whom I am now speaking vote for Johnson for at least as achieve cohesion, if ther dater not suffer from want of spiritual many ballots as will satisfy the mine to stand out for a dark rather vague requirement of the borse, and, most important of all, |Michigan primary law. Bat if they agree upon a dark horse among those thirty Michigan and bend all their united power delegates I think there is scarcely to bringing about the nomination The "Newspaper World'' states one who is friendly to Jobusoo of their choice-then this group that, in addition to twelve Sanday personally.

of delegates might vay well turn newspapers that are increasing Every one of them will out to be the dominant power in their price from three-halfpence welcome the chance to get from the convention. If things should to twopence, fifteen newspaper

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