New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-12
Conference in Downtown
Hotel Still in Session
at Midnight; L o d g e
and Crane Participate
Delegates Eager
To Complete Task
Borah Serves Notice He
Will Not Support Either
Low den or W. ood

COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June III
The Republican National Convention, in
ten-hour continuous session, to-day
listened to eleven nominating speeches,
more than twice as many seconding
speeches, and then took four ballots
nan unsuccessful effort to nominate
a candidate for the Presidency.
At midnight the maneuvering and
comforting among the convention lead
ers was at its height and centered in
conference at one of the downtown
hotels, where Senators Lodge, Smoot,
Watson, former Senator w. Murray
Crane, Senator Borah and others
pesent.
Other conferences were going on at
other hotels and various clubs. The
Wood headquarters expressed satisfac-
ton with the situation, Lowden head
quarters was predicting sufficient ac-
cessions tomorrow to start the Gov
ernor toward the necessary majority,
and it was known that compromise Of
fehs of various sorts were being carried
to johnson headquarters.
Borah Balks on Lowden
Senator Borah, of Idaho, one of SEN
ator Johnson's most ardent supporters,
announced tonight that he would not
accept either Lowden or Wood
eff either of them is nominated," he
declared, "the issue before the American
people will not be on the platform of
the party-it will be on the issue of the
corruption of the American people"
Senator Borah expressed his views at
a public meeting Of Johnson delegates.
eve have reached time when it is
necessary to talk frankly, not only with
reference to the situation here" Sen
ator Borah said, "but also with refer
ence to what the situation will be when
we leave here with a candidate nom-
mated and our platform in our pocket.
Pm not here to crafty personal feeling
for or against any candidate.
From my standpoint the interests Of
the Republican party and of this coun-
try are superior to the right of the
individual to hold office. Our first OBJ
ject is to nominate Hiram Johnson, be-
cause he holds the confidence of the
American people.
IL do not pretend to say that there
are not other men who could be elected
if nominated by the convention to-mor-
row. l do say with all sincerity that
either of the two candidates now lead
ing before the convention will not re-
celve, If nominated, hundreds of thou
sands Of Republican votes.
1t was the first Republican conven-
tion in many years which had gone
past the third ballot before finding a
Presidential nominee. For nearly ten
straight hours the delegates sat in the
convention hall in broiling weather
and without rest or refreshment.
When the convention adjourned soon
after 7 o'clock, Chicago time, no one
in it had eaten since breakfast, and
the adjournment of the session only
marked the beginning of Il series Of
all-night conferences and vancouver
ing, which the chiefs of the various
forces believe will bring accessions to
their forces for the reopening Of the
balloting tomorrow morning.
Delegates Eager to Finish Job
ture inside the convention hall, the
delegates began to pile into their
placaes a full half hour before to-day's
session was to begin. They all We're
| eager to have it over with, and the
possibility that the nominations might
be made day and the convention
ended seemed to take some of the edge
off their distress from the heat. 1t
gave promise of being the hottest day
OF the convention IN all respects. The
sun got to work with vigor exceed
ing even the feverish efforts of candi-
dates managers in their eleventh
hour efforts to line up a winning COM
| bination.
| Most of those on the convention floor
and in the galleries came with fans
and many of the delegates stripped off
their coats before they took their seats.
| For the time being, at least, the hot
weather was the big feature in the con-
vention picture.
At $50. however, when the conven-
ton should have been called to order,
there still were great patches of empty
seats in the delegates section and the
platform was almost empty. The crowd
sent up an ever growing rumble of
conversation while it waited for the
party leaders to get through with their
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