Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-06-19
the chair ruled an adjournment had

fights of the candidates. Efforts were
made to bring about some sort OF
compromise that would result in a
threats, promises and appeals In the
interests of party harmony were all
in vain. The three candidates, Wood,
Lowden and Johnson, who were lead
ers in the voting, refused to give place
to any one on whom the senatorial
leaders could agree. They wanted to
let the delegates fight it out on the
floor of the convention and continue
the baloting until the delegates had
expressed their choice for the first
place oD the ticket without any influ-
ence being exerted on the part of the
party leaders, and temporarily won.
When the first. ballot was taken at
the session of Saturday morning 1t
showed but little change from those
of Friday night Through the first
four ballots of Saturday, General
Wood and Governor Lowden were rum
ming neck and neck and on one ballot
were tied with 81 " votes each.
Again there came demand for adj
journment and again the Wood and
! Lowden forces combined TO prevent Ii,
but without result. After another an
other consultation at the back of the
speakers stand between half a dozen
senatorial leaders the session was adj
journed despite the protests of large
part of the delegates.
Almost instantly there flashed
through the great building the rumor
that the leaders had decided on Sem
ator Harding as the man if they could
force his nomination, and they were
going to try
Could they do it? Did the leaders
control enough delegates to name the
leader of the party ticket? The gem
eral verdict was that they could, that
the unrestricted delegates would do
their bidding. Senator Johnson and
General Wood refused to release their
instructed delegates, and on the ninth
ballot the Illinois delegation stayed
with Governor Lowden, the Pennsyl-
vania delegation stayed with Governor
Spr0ul, and the New York delegation
continued to split among several can
didates. At the end of that ballot
Senator Harding lacked 100 votes of
enough to nominate him and it was
thought for a time the leaders were
going to fail, until Governor SprOul
was known to have released the Penn
sylvania delegation to Harding, and
with that the effort to climb into the
Harding wagon started, on the tenth
and final ballot. In the end all in
structed delegations were released, but
many of them declined to change their
last registered vote, and the final ball
lot was announced as given at the
head of this account. All through the
balloting "a Wisconsin delegates had
persistently registered their votes for
Senator LaFollette, and when,. after
the last ballot had been announced
it was moved to make the nomination
unanimous these "a delegates voted
against the motion.
1t took but a short time to select
Governor Hardings running mate.
Governor Coolidge, Senator Lenroot of
Wisconsin, Senator Gronna of North
Dakota, Governor Allen of Kansas,
and Colonel Anderson of Richmond
Va, were named as candidates for the
place. There was but one ballot,
Governor Coolidge receiving 676 votes
and the ticket was complete. The Re-
publican convention of 1920 was
thing of the past.
One of the features for which the
convention just closed will long be re-
membered was the participation of the
women. 1t is doubtful if they had any
decisive part in the actual naming of
the candidate, other than the. few
who were present as delegates. But
women figured prominently on the
minor committees, and they figured
prominently in the oratorical efforts,
and very much to their credit. At
least one woman seconded the nom-
nation of each of the candidates for
the nomination for the presidency,
and their speeches appealed to the
audience because they were short and
to the point. Women We're active as
workers around the headquarters of
every candidate They gave out red,
blue and green feathers for General
Wood, badges and pennants for Gov
ernor Lowden, served tea and cakes
for Herbert Hoover, and did some
thing of like service for each of the
candidates.
At General Woods Headquarters
Mrs. Wood and her daughter had a
handshake and a gracious word for
every caller, but they refused at all
times to talk politics. On the other
hand the daughter of Nicholas Murray
Butler was the real manager of her
fathers campaign.
Herbert Hoover at no time showed
any strength in the balloting. For the
| first nine ballots his total vote was
from four to six, and on the tenth
ballot he polled nine votes. When his