The spectator., 1920-06-22
By WEIGHT 4. PATTERSON
For Presdent-Warren G. Harding Of Ohio.
 For Vice esident-Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts.

Convention Hall, Chicago.-The nomination for president was made on tho tenth ballot. The vote on that ballot for the men who had been the leading candidates was: Harding, CITE; Wood. 15712; Lowden, P; Johnson. so 4-5.
 After it is all over that is the news 1t took five strenuous days to produce That is all that the great mass of the public will remember. But for those who had a part in the contest it will be an experience to be remembered for a lifetime, and the convention of l920 will go down in the history of the Re publican party as one of the hardest waged battles of the party'S existence. It was n battle of which the audience saw but little that was spectacular, q show that did not measure up to the cXpectations of the thousands who had begged and fought for and purchased tickets, and who had damned them selves into the great building session after session. sWeltering and roasting. and always anticipating something worth while.
 The public did not see the real fight. as they were not admitted to the coun- ell rooms where the differences of con testing candidates were ironed out, or where the varying opinions of diff fernt factions were being reconciIed so that a platform that would fit all clements might he produced. The unusual conditions of the times had produced a wide range of ideas. Men differed radically on important points upon which the party must go to the public as a unit if 1t is to have chance of being successful in November, and 1t was not an easy task to find the common ground upon which all were willing to stand Every day of the five brought it's threat of bolt on the part of some faction, and these threats brought adjustment after adjustment, after sessions lasting from but few minutes to an hour or so, In order that new conferences might he held and new efforts might be made to sat iSlg pHpbNihS t'N'h'HN''
 League of Nations Fight.
 IL was the League of Nations plank that proved the greatest stumbling block. The irreconcilables of the sen ate. led by Senator Johnson, would not listen to anything that savored of an indorsement of the League of Ma tions. with or without reservations. Another element. led hy Nicholas Murray Butler of New York, insisted upon an indorsement of the League with the Lodge reservations, and on Wednesday morning 1t seemed that nothing could prevent a split on thls plank.
 It was at this time that the politi- cal genius of Elihu Root was called upon. The cables carried the troubles of the contestants to Europe where Root is assisting in the organization of an international court, and the cables brought back a solution that satisfied Senator Johnson and his fol lowers. and which the others were willing to accept in the interests of party harmony.
 There was difficulty again over the labor plank, and again compromise was resorted 10 to prevent split, Much the same thing was true of the plank on Mexico and plank on Ire land. In the end the Irish were over looked entirely. as nothing the leaders were willing to do was satisfactory to that element that was demanding strong resolution acknowledging the freedom of the Irish republic"
 Many Hours of Waiting.
 For hours the resolutions commit