The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-28
NO NOMINATION ON
FIRST BALLOT Pos
SIBLE AT CHICAGO
General Wood Enters Convention
With Most Instructed Votes But
With Less Than Enough To
Win Nomination.

Chicago, May 2S. - Candidates for
Presidency Thursday opened their
final drive to capture the 493 votes that
spell victory in the convention which
opens here one week from next Tues
day.
The last of the 94S delegates who
will sit in the convention were select
ed Wednesday when Vermont Reppb-
licans met and chose eight uninstruct-
ed delegates.
Major General Leonard Wood, pres
ent returns show, will enter the con-
vcntion with more instructed votes
than any other candidate, but his to-
tai of 153 is less than one-third of the
number necessary to win the nomina-
tion.
The division of strength among the
| large field of favorite sons" practic-
| ally precludes any possibility of a
nomination on the first ballot. Even the
most optimistio campaign managers
here are not claiming victory before
the third ballot, and the more conserv-
ative party leaders predict the break
will not come before the fifth or sixth
at the earliest.
One big factor which may upset cam
paign 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 committee which meets
here Monday to decide these contests
and prepare the temporary roll may
materially alter the prospects of sew
eral candidates.
The principal contests are between
supporters of Major General Wood and
Governor Frank o. Lowden. Senator
Johnson and other candidates are not
directly interested in the contest but
may raise questions regarding primary
contests in South Dakota, New Jersey,
Indiana. Michigan, Nebraska and other
states.
In addition to the 145 contests, six
ty-four surplus delegates, with frac-
tional votes, have been chosen from
ten states and the Republican National
Committees rules provide that their
right to seat shall also be contested.
The convention call stated that no
oversize delegations should be seated
and no seats have been provided for
these sixty-four
Senator Hiram Johnson and Senator
Howard Sutherland, of West Virginia.
were the principal gamers in primar-
les and conventions held in four states
during the past week. Senator John
son, returns indicate will get nine of
Oregon's ten votes and Senator Suth-
erland sixteen from West Virginia
The official count has not been COM
pleted in Oregon and West Virginia
Texas Republicans, split in two fac
tions. each of which elected an unin-
structed delegation with twenty-three
votes.
Figures compiled here show the fol.
lowing division of the convention vote
Major General Leonard Wood, 15S
Senator Hiram Johnson, 109; Governor
Frank o. Lowden, "a; favorite sons
and uninstructed, 648.
In the favorite son list, Senator
Warren G. Harding has 80 votes from
Ohio; Senator Sutherland 16 from
West Virginia; Senator Miles Poindex
ter is expected to receive Washington
IA; and Judge Pritchard, of Nortl
Carolina, is expected to get II of his
states 22 votes.
Campaign managers here of tht
three leading candidates all claim vic
tory in statements issued Wednesda!
night The Wood and Johnson camps
make definite predictions as to theil
first ballot vote, the supporters of tn,
general claiming 1856 votes and thos,
of the senator 236.
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