The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-06-17
HARDING, COOLIDGE
6. 0 ?. nominees
on.Tenth Ballot ohioan Named
to Head Ticket, Lowden and
Sproul Having Released
Their Delegates.

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Chicago. June M-warrenS q,
Harding. United States senator from
OHIO was norntnnted for the presidency
Saturday by the republican national
convention after a deadlock which
lasted for nine ballots and finally
forced out of the running all tho
original favorites.
AS his running mate. the
Ton named Gov. Calvin Coolidge, Of
Massachusetts,, upsetting a plan of
q combination of the Harding back
ers 20 t~ncminate for the place Senator
Irvine L. Lenroot, of Wisconsin.
lowoen Helps Harding.
The collapse of tic forces of Gov.
Frank O. Lowdsa and their transfer
IN large paSt TO Senator Harding put
the Il candidate over.
Genera Wood lost heavily however
when LIE Harding drift began and
Senator johnson, the third Of the trio
OF le:siers on the early b~alloting yes
.erday, also vent: steadily down hill.
entering the convention four days
6 as a candidate distinctly of the
dark horse" class, Senator Harding
BOT only 81 votes on the first ballot
yesterday and on the second he
dropped to Sc. When tho convention
adjourned last night at the end Of
the fourth ballot he had 81,
Harding Pushes Tota! 10 1873.
In all night conferences among the
party chiefs, however, HI was men,
toned many times as the most likely
to break the nomination deadlock
Should neither Wood. LCwden nor
johnson take o, commanding lead to-
day.
They all failed to do so. Wood and
Lowden running a neck and neck
race Tor leadership on four ballots.
while the strength of the California
candidate dwindled steadily.
Meanwhile Harding pushed his
total to 1873. individual delegates from
many states swinging to him from
the columns ii the leaders and Of
various favorite sons. The Johnson
managers, fearing a landslide was
impending, then made a last play to
save the fortunes of their candidate.
They moved to recess for a couple
of hours in order to take an inventory
and seek a new combination. The
Wood and Lowden forces, 10th virtu-
ally at the peak Of their strength, but
disheartened at the long string Of
ballots without material gains fell III
with the recess plan and the conven-
ton adopted it.
In the dramatic succession of con-
ferences that followed the fate of the
candidates virtually was sealed. Some
Of the Wood and Lowden managers
tried Intellectually for an agreement
which would hold their delegates in
line and kill the Harding boom.
Some tried to get a Wood-Lowden-
Johnson agreement to adjourn till
Monday without making a nominal
ton. There also was a conference
between johnson and Harding sup
porters in which the Ohioan's sup
porters tried without success to have
the remaining Johnson strength
swung to Harding.
It was the parley between the
Harding and Lowden men, however.
which apparently bore the most fruit
when the balloting began again, for
Governor Lowden came to the con-
vention during the ninth roll call and,
reversing a previous plan to go be-
fore the convention itself, issued in
%structions from behind the scenes
releasing his instructed delegates.
Senator Harding also was in the e
of the Coliseum platform during the
voting and conferred with Chairman
Hays.
Almost as soon as the alphabetical
cali OF states began after the recess,
the groundswell for Harding demon
strated that it could o be fore
stalled. Connecticut, when her name
was called, took thirteen of her four
tee votes from Lowden and gave
them to Harding. In Florida he got
from Wood, and then Ken
lucky, almost from the first a solid
Lowden state, Topped completely into,
the Harding column.
Amid scenes Of rising enthusiasm
other blocks of Lowden delegates fol-
lowed suit, while many of the routed
Wood supporters also went into the
Harding camp. By h end of the
roll call Senator Harding had rolled
up a total Of 374, putting him far into
the lead and several score of votes
neare the nomination than any can
didate had been before.
Lowden at the end Of the ninth had
only 121 votes left out Of the 30S with
which he ended the eighth and Gen
eral Woods strength had fallen from
299 on the eighth to 249 on the ninth.
AS the tenth roll call began dele
gates quit Lowden, Wood and John
son right and left and the big hall
was in almost continuous applause as
state after state announced accession
to the Harding standard. 1t was re-
served for Pennsylvania to add the
browning touch of enthusiasm. When
the keystone state was reached the
Ohio senator needed thirty-two votes
to nominate him and Pennsylvania
gave him sixty.
1t was Governor Sproul, himself,
the candidate of his state on every
preceding ballot and mentioned man
times as a possible dark horse to
break the deadlock, who announced
the big Pennsylvania vote for Hard
ing. Entering the Coliseum floor for
the first time since the balloting be-
gan he made his way to the Pennsyl-
vania standard and, amid cheers, re-
leased, the delegates from longer sup
porting him. Then he took a. poll, got