Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-29
WOOD LEADING
CO. P.FIELDFOR
DENOMINATION

CHICAGO, May 27.-Candidates
for the Republican nomination for
the presidency today opened their
final drive to capture the 493 votes
that spell victory in the convention
which opens here one week from
Tuesday.
The last of the 9S4 delegates who
will sit in the convention were Sc
lected yesterday, when Vermont Re-
publicans met and chose eight I'M
instructed delegates.
Major General Leonard Wood, re-
turns show, will enter the conven-
ton with more instructed votes than
any other candidate, but his total of
153 is less than one-third Of the
number necessary to win the nomi-
nation.
The division Of strength among
the large. field of "favorite sons"
practically precludes any possibility
of a nomination on the first ballot.
Even the most optimistic campaign
managers here are not claiming vic
tory before the third ballot, and the
more conservative party leaders pre-
dict the break will not come before
the fifth or sixth at the earliest.
One big factor which may upset
campaign managers predictions is
yet to be dealt with. One hundred
and forty-five contests have been or
will be filed, more than one-seVenth
of all the seats in the convention
being at stake, and the national COM
mittee which meets here Monday
to decide these contests and prepare
alter the prospects of several candi-
dates,
The principal contests are between
supports of Major General Wood and
Governor Frank o. Lowden. Senator
Johnson and other candidates are not
directly interested in these contests.
but may raise questions regarding
primary contests in South Dakota,
New Jersey, Indiana, Michigan, Ne
bras1la and other places.
Claims Of Candidates
In addition to the 145 contests,
fractional votes, have been chosen
from ter states, and the Republican
| national committees rules provide
| that their rights to seats shall also
be contested. The convention call
stated that mo oversize delegates
should be seated and no seats have
been provided for these sixty-four.
Senator Hiram Johnson and Sen
ator Howard Sutherland, of West Vir-
ginia, were. the principal gamers in
| primaries ana COnN6HJlOlS uClu III
| four states during the past week
Senator Johnson, returns indicate
will get nine of Oregon's ten votes
and Senator Sutherland sixteen from
West Virginia. Texas Republicans
split into two factions, each of which
elected an uniqstructed delegation
with % votes
Figures compiled here show the
following division of the vote:
! Major General Wood 1853; Senator
Hiram Johnson 100; Governor Low
den a; favorite sons and uninstruct-
In the favorite son list, Senator
Warren Harding has SO votes from
Ohio; Senator Sutherland 16 from
West Virginia; Senator Miles Poin-
dexter is expected to receive Wash,
ington's IA. and Judge Pritchard, OF
North Carolina, is expected to get
IL of his states % votes.
Campaign managers here Of the
three leading candidates all claim
victory in statements issued last
make definite predictions as to their
first ballot vote, the supporters OF
the, general claiming 3S5 votes, and
those of the senator 236, The Low
den forces. while processing theil
confidence, are not prepared to quote
Leonard Wood" says a statement
from his headquarters, has so in
creased his votes in the last week
that a first ballot prediction of 385
votes was made today at Wood head
quarters here. This is more thar
the combined instructed vote of al
other candidates. On the first ballot
he will be a big leader and his total
l will increase steadily until nomina'
tion is assured"
Hall to Be Ready
1.-THE Johnson headquarters, which
aI1r ,arrO Inl1
son, Jr., the senator's son, amour .
ed with equal positiveness:
Senator Hiram Johnson already
has 236 pledged delegates who will!
vote for him on the first ballot and
Will stick with him to the last ditch
His vote on the first ballot will be
equal, if not greater, than that 81
any other candidate and by the fifth
or sixth ballot, he will be nominal
ed"
We are going to win" said the
1--WE have had no time to sum up
and figures therefore are unavail.
able, but we are going to win, and
the situation looks even better than
it did last week"
: Work on the convention hall is
progressing rapidly, and Charles R
Eiall, superintendent of the Coliseum
has assured the convention commit
tee that the more than $4,000 seats
| Will be IN place "a hours DeIOre lne
convention is called to order. y ~
! Chairman Will Hays of the national
committee. -
Extra balconies are being erected
to provide nearly 1000 more seats
than were available at any previous
! convention.
The speakers platform and seats
for 1000 distinguished visitors have
already been erected. In the Coli
scum annex, offices of the conven-
ton committees and offices and the
room of the national committee
where the contests will be heard next
week, have been in readiness for
some time.
National committeeman began ar
irving early this week, and ma
jority Of the fifty-three members a-c
expected. to be on hand by Monday
Chairman Hays will arrive Sunday
Women Are Forging Ahead
Ar tho now iuSt1v famous Jackson