The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-20
REPUBLICANS OF CONGRESS NAME WOOD
AS CHOICE FOR PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE
GENERAL PROVES FAvORITE WITH 1856 OUT OF eeO REPUBLICAN
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, WHO BELIEVE HE BEST PERSONIFIES
THE ~AMERICANEsM- IDEALS OF LATE THEODORE ROOSEVELT

commital. In order that the identity
of the members may not be divulged
the vote on Connecticut, Rhode Island
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
is here given en- bloc. Eleven rep
resentatiyes voted for Wood, two fol-
Lowden, one for Harding and one
was noncommital.
New York For Him Strong
Partly due to the Plattsburg move
ment for the national defense and
partly to the association of his name
with that of Theodore Roosevelt,
Wood has a great preponderance of
favorable opinion in the New York
delegation. Fifteen expressed a pref
erence for him, one is for Lowden,
one for Watson, one for Taft, one for
Pershing, and three were non-com-
initial.
In Pennsylvania is an even more
overwhelming sentiment for Wood.
Nineteen members of the House from
that state are convinced that he is
the n man to select. Lowden has
N supporter there, Harding has one,
Senator Knox has one, Governor
Sproul has one and one was non
commital.
The states of New Jersey, Maryland,
and Delaware line up with ten for
Wood and n for Harding.
Ten of the Michigan members are
for Wood, one is for Harding and
n was noncommital.
Harding has nine votes in Ohio,
with four for Wood and one noncom-
initial. In the Indiana delegation
twelve are for Watson and one is
for Lowden. In Wisconsin is mostly
Lowden sentiment. Five of the House
delegation expressed a preference for
him, while three voted for Wood and
n was noncommital Iowa is over
whelmingly for Lowden, who attended
the state university there. Nine are
for the Illinois governor, one is for
Wood and one is fol Johnson.
In the border states of Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee. Missouri and
Oaklahoma seven voted for Wood, two
for Lowden, one for Harding and one
was noncommital. West Virginia
members of the House stand four for
Harulng and one for Lowden.
West for the General
The West is also for Wood. This
is particularly true of the Southwest,
due largely to the fact that in the
Spanish War he was colonel in the
Rough Riders of which Theodore
Roosevelt was lieutenant colonel.
California, Oregon and Washington
voted six for Wood, five for Johnson,
one for Poindexter and one was nom
commital New Mexico, Idaho,
Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado
gave four for Wood, three for Lowden
and one for Pershing. Kansas,
Nebraska and North and South Da-
kota gave eight votes for Wood,
four for Harding, four for Lowden
and three were noncommital.
In the home state of every other
candidate Wood, so far as the prefer
ence of the members of the House is
concerned, is the second choice.
On the Senate side of the capitol
the Wood sentiment is no less pro-
nounced. Because Senators Borah,
Kellogg, Spencer, Edge, Poindexter,
Sutherland and Lenroot, as well as
Senators Johnson, Harding and Wat
son. are understood to be somewhat
receptive and have been prominently
mentioned in their own states at least,
they are placed in the poll as mod
estly admitting that one among their
numbe.' might make an excellent chief
executive of the United States.
A story is going the rounds of the
Senate that an old farmer was seen
to take a lightning rod and parade
up and down the road with it in face
of a ris:cg storm. Asked his purr, se,