Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1920-06-25

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combination OF the Wood and Lowden
delegates who felt that their only
chance TO win lay in preventing further
conferences on the part OF the leaders.
Another effort to adjourn was made
after the second ballot and n roll call
OF the states demanded. II, too, was
voted down by the same combination
OF delegates. At the close OF the fourth
ballot Senator Smoot advanced to the
front OF tho speakers stand and moved
an adjournment. A roll call was again
demanded, but the demand was ignored
and an aye and no vote called for.
Both sides In the controversy exerted
all their lung power In an effort TO en-
force their will on the chairman, but
after a conference OF senate leaders
on the speakers stand, the chair ruled
an adjournment had been voted.
Back TO the council rooms went the
leaders, and to these rooms were sum
moned the men who were directing
the fights OF the candidates. Efforts
were made TO bring about some sort
OF n compromise that would result In
n nomination on saturday morning.
But threats. promises and appeals In
the interests Of party harmony were
all In vain. The three candidates,
Wood, Lowden and johnson. who
were leaders In the voting, refused to
give place to any one on whom the
senatorial leaders could agree. They
wanted to let the delegates fight II
out on the floor OF the convention and
continue the balloting until the dele
gates had expressed their choice for
the first place on the ticket without
any influence being exerted on the
part Of the party leaders, and tempo
rarlly they won.
When the first ballot was taken
at the session OF Saturday morning
It showed but little change from those
Of Friday night. Through the first
four ballots OF Saturday General Wood
and Governor Lowden were running
neck and neck and on one ballot were
tied with 3111k votes each.
Again there came a demand for adj
journment and again the Wood and
Lowden forces combined to prevent II,
but without result. After another
consultation at the back of the
speakers stand between half n dozen
senatorial leaders the session was adj
journed despite the protests Of n large
part Of the delegares.
Leaders Take Control.
Almost instantly there flashed
through the great building the rumor
that the leaders had decided on SEN
ator Harding as the man II they could
force his nomination. and they were
going to try.
Gould they do it7 Did the leaders
control enough delegates to name the
leader Of the party ticketf The gen.
eral verdict was that they could ;
that the unlnstructed delegates would
do their bidding. Senator Johnson
and General Wood refused TO release
their instructed delegates, and on the
ninth ballot the Illinois delegation
stayed with Governor Lowden, the
Pennsylvania delegation stayed with
Governor Sproul, and the New York
delegation continued TO split among
several candidates. At the end OF
that ballot Senator Harding lacked
100 votes OF enough 10 nominate him
and II was thought for n time the
leaders were going 70 fail, until Gov
ernor SprOul was known to have re-
leased the Pennsylvania delegation "a
Harding. and with that the effort
to climb into tine Harding wagon
started on the tenth and final ballot
In the end all instructed delegations
were released, but many OF them de
cllned to change their last registered
vote, and the final ballot was m
nounced as given at the head OF this
account. All through the b%allotlng "a
Wisconsin delegates had perslstently
registered their votes for Senator La
Toilette, and when, after the last bal
lot had been announced II was moved
TO make the nomination unanimous
these "a delegates voted against the
motion.
II took but a short time TO select
Governor Hardlng's running mate
Governor Coolidge, Senator Lenrool
OF Wisconsin, Senator Gronna Of
North Dakota, Governor Allen OF Kan
sas, and Colonel Anderson OF Rich
mond. Va, were named as candidates
for the place. There was but on,
ballot, Governor Coolidge receiving
076 votes. aud the ticket was coin
plete. The Republican convention o.
1920 was a thing OF the past.
One OF the features for which TN
convention just closed win long b.
remembered was the participation o
the women 1t is doubtful II they ha'