Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-21
537 UNPLEDGED
At CHICAGO ARE
MAJORITY Of. a
Wood Leads for First
Ballot, but Winner Is to
Be Named by Division
of Free Delegates.

Chicago, May 2O-With the Republican
national convention only eighteen days
away and with So9 of the 9S4 dele
gates already elected, the situation fac
ing the Republican candidates Is that no
candidate will enter the convention with
enough votes pledged to him to give
him any decided advantage over his op-
ponents.
Forty-seven of the fifty-three states
and territories have chosen their delega-
tons and are sending to Chicago 537
uninstructed delegates. Al more than q
majority of all those who will sit in the
convention.
Wood Has l45 Pledged.
Major General Leonard Wood. on the
face Of returns to date, will show the
most strength on the first ballot, for
of those delegates who have been in
structed or who have expressed a pref
erence, 145 are pledged to him. In addi-
ton, he carried the preferential pri-
mary in Vermont, but that states eight
delegates have not yet been chosen by
the state convention.
Senator Hiram Johnson, of California,
who commands an even hundred votes,
is second. while Governor Frank O.
Lowden of Illinois, with rs votes pledg
ed to him, is third. Senator Warren j.
Harding. of Ohio, has 80 votes from his
home state.
iO4 Delegates Contested.
There are. however, contests pending
in II states aud in the District of Co
lumbia, involving 104 delegates. Thirty
five of the contests are on Wood dele
gates. six on Lowden men and 63
among uninstructed delegations. The
credentials committee win meet here
May 81 TO thresh out these contests.
Campaign managers at Chicago for
the various candidates agree that there
will be no nomination on the first bal
lot. The complimentary vote for the
large list of .'favorite sons" may, in
fact, they say, be so large that it will
destroy the usual significance of the
first ballot as an Indicator of the
strength of the various candidates.
Favorite Sons First.
Among the candidates who are ex-
pected to divide the uninstructed vote
on the first ballot, in many cases com
manding all or part of the delegates
from their home states, are Governor
Sproul Pennsylvania: Governor Cool
idge. Massachusetts; Senator Suther-
land, West Virginia; Senator Poindex-
Ter, Washington; Senator Lafollette,
Wisconsin; DIR. Nicholas Murray Butler.
New York: Herbert Hoover, California;
and Judge Pritchard, North Carolina.
Senator Poindexter has II instructed
votes from Washington; Judge Pritch-
ard II from North Carolina; Governor
Coolidge 33 from Massachusetts, and
the other candidates have, or expect to
have, varying numbers.
Claims of Nomination.
Campaign managers mere of three
candidates who are leading in delegates
actually instructed have made definite
claims as TO the vote they expect to
receive in the convention.
Major General Woods headquarters
has issued a statement claiming he will
have from 297 to 302 votes on the first
ballot; that he will gain from II to 20
on the second ballot, and that he will be
nominated on the third or fourth
The Johnson managers here say re-
ports from their workers throughout the
show they will have 335 votes
on the first ballot and that the senator
will be nominated on the third or fourth
Governor Lowden's managers give no
estimates of how many votes they expect
to have on the first ballot, but in
published statement have assured the
governor he will win the nomination
with 522 votes. They predict the break
IN his favor will come on the third bal
lot.
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