The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-12
EIGHTH BALLOT
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the seventh ballot. The poll stood:
Johnson, 16; Wood, Is; Lowden, 1.
Wood, Harding and Lowden all made
small gains from New York on the
seventh ballot.
Michigan responded 80 for johnson,
according 10 instructions on the sew
I enth call, but another poll was de-
manded.
Ohio stood on the seventh the same
as on the sixth, 80 for Harding and
10 for Wood.
Pennsylvania continued to stand pat
or Sproul amid the cheering of her
delegates.
Neylan of California came to the
rostrum to talk to Medill Mccormick.
Neylan said he wanted a recess. Nc
Corm1ck suggested one more ballot
would be agreeable to a majority.
Neylan agreed on behalf of johnson
supporters.
Chairman Lodge then resumed tho
gavel
The row in the Florida delegation
( Whlch began in the seating contests,
! showed up in a poll demanded. The
vote stood for Wood and l for Low
den. Gains for the Wood forces in
Ohio caused another demonstration
| on the floor The word came up from
the various managers that they in
tended to stand pat and fight it out
little longer.
and Wood positions were scarcely
changed while Senator Harding made
all the gains, carrying him past the
/ hundred mark
Wyoming Switches to Harding.
! Wyoming cast her entire six votes
for Harding on the eighth. That took
three from Wood and three from Low
den.
| On the eighth ballot, Michigan broke
again and Lowden votes appeared. AT
/ the time Charles B. Warren, former
national committeeman from Michi-
gan. was comforting with the New
York delegation and Lowden acces-
sions were expected.
Sproul Boom Failed.
i Lowden, concluding yesterdays bal
= loting with 2S9, leaped to 303 on the
fifth, finishing the sixth with 81 Il
and the seventh with the same total.
On the final ballot, before recess, he
had SO7.
Senator Harding starting from a
terday, jumped to IS on the fifth, S9
on the sixth, los on the seventh and
1 133 on the. eighth.
The promised development of
strength by Governor Sproul after the
fourth ballot. did not materiaIize to-
day. Pennsylvania loyal delegate
stayed with their governor thru the
four ballots before recess. There was
an undercurrent of belief thruout the
! Coliseum that the Pennsylvania dele
cation would swing to Harding when
ever the senator approached close
: enough to the necessary 493 to push
him across.
Hiram johnson Slipped.
! Hiram Johnson's strength slipped
from a total of 1401z on yesterday s
last ballot to ST on the eighth today.
Michigan, where johnson won an ur-
expected primary victory, began drop
ping away from him on the sixth bat
lot today, and on the eighth, Wood
went into the lead in the Michigan
quota.
Many of the leaders went into con-
ference Immediately after the recess
was ordered.
A majority Of the big crowd left the
Coliseum with the delegates.
Nicholas Murray Butler released his
delegates today and a caucus of the
New York delegation showed this
way: Lowden Al, Wood "a. Harding
6. Coolidge 5, Butler 4, Hoover s.
johnson 3. Poindexter 1, and w
IL. Ward. the Westchester county
Expect Break on Eleventh.
Reports that Lowden and Wood
would combine to head off the Hard
ing trend were given color when Col
William c. Proctor and Theodore
Roosevelt. jr.. from the Wood camp
hurried to Lowden's private suite fol
a conference with A. T. Hert and
Louis L. Emerson, Lowden managers
this afternoon.
Wood supporters and Lowden sup
porters alike declared that the only
way to stop Harding is to combine
their forces. Delegates pledged tt
each stated privately that they were
ready to go to Harding the moment
they are released. Some said that thi.
would come probably about the eley-
enth ballot, when If Lowden and WOOD
: show no marked gain hope of break
ir,c The dead Hal will he slirht