Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-14

resisted all attempts OF the NCou anu
Lowlen people to check 1t II they had a
disposition to do So
Until the tenth ballot the Maryland
delegation stood by General Wood to n
man, but on the deciding ballot the dele
CATION, divided, giving FIVE to Harding
and the rest to Wood West Virginia
giving in with her is for the Ohio senator.
Virginia fell into line with II for Harding
and one for Wood and the Dlstric CT Of
Columbia switched its two from Wood 70
Harding
DELAWARE FOR HARDING.
The Delaware delegation, seeing how
the wind was blowing, began 10 wsver on
the seventh ballot, when Harding, who
was already SAID to he a favorlte Of Senat-
or Pall, got two votes
Harding got one more vote from Della
ware in the eighth, the other three still
gong to Cen r. O. du POnt On the
ninth ballot. du Pont was dropped. Della
ware giving three to Harding and three to
SproUl On the tenth and deciding ballot
and before the trick was turned, all Of
Delaware ; Slx votes were cast for Harding
spRoUL Turns THE TRICK.
When the result was communicated 10
hlm by Charles b. Warren. Of Michigan.
Senator Harding left for his hotel with
Mrs Harding, and announced that he
would have no statement 70 make at this
time
1t was Just about the moment that
/ Governor Sproul in person in his scat on the
floor was casting the go votes from Penn
syIvania which ran Harding total over
5l0l. and gave him the nomination
Az the convention realized that nom
4 nation had been made hcdlam cut loose
and there was an unrcstralncd demon
stration for several minutes When quiet
4 was restored the calling Of the roll was
4 continued Contrary 70 expectations
many of tho remaining states hold their
I original formations giving complimentary
0r farewell votes to favorltc sons or men
whom they had been supporting
La Toilette held his "A votes from Wis
cousin To the last ballot and the conven-
rion and galleries Kissed their delivery as
I usual
The Philippines renamed faithful 70
Wood to the last On IN unofficial total
Harding got 645 40 votes.
Then came a landslide Of changes in
votes in which most Of the delegations
wanted to climb on the band wagon and
+ threw in their entire delegations for
Harding
In all the acCessiOns made by Harding,
Wood lost less than half q hundred
While the votes were tumbllng 10 Harding
/ word reached the convention hall that
( Governor Lowden was on his way there
+ and pro- ably would speak 4 minute later
! word came from the governor that re re-
leased his friends and Immediately Chair
man Hert. Of the Kentucky delegation
one OF the Lowden managers turned over
the whole delegation To Harding There
were roars Of cheers and wells as other
votes tumbled into the Harding column
AIeanwhile senator Harding also ar
rived al the convention hall and went into
+ d conference with Governor Lowdcn anC
/ Chairman Hays IN the latters office Mr.
/ Havs came 10 the platform. with the in
/ tention, ii was reported, Of stopping tht
ball0tinC but the roll call had started anC
could not he interrupted. Later FREQ
i Upham national treasurer and Lowden
I close friend said
1t 5 Harding Lowden will go on th'
floor That all the program there is.
The balloting and slide to Harding dis
proved entirely the earlier story tha
johnson Wood and Lowden forces wer,
working together 10 force an adlournmen
at once.
T A recess OF two hours, between tn,
eighth and ninth ballots evidently de
cided the result.