New-York tribune., 1920-02-28
Wood Has Long
Lead i'm Poll Of
1000 Votes
General Gets 4,738 Bal.
lots, While His Near.
est Rival, Hiram John.
son, Receives Only 1881
Milwaukee for Hoover
College Professors Also
Lean Toward the Former
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The Eastern Leonard Wood campaign
headquarters yesterday announced the
insult of polls taken in eighteen widely
separated cities in ten states, show
ing General Wood ahead of every other
Republican and Democratic candidate
for the Presidential nomination.
Of 1900 votes cast in the various
polls, conducted by Republican and
Democratic newspapers and weeklies.
General Wood has nearly half of ali
the votes, with a tota, of 4,73s. Near
est to him is Hiram Johnson, with
about one-fourth as many supporters,
1881 in all. President Wilson is third,
with l,102; Governor Coolidge of Mas
sachusetts is fourth, with 673, and
Governor Lowden of Illinois trailing
him, with an even 600.
The poll was taken in the following
cities: Aberdeen, S. D., St. Paul.
Mimi. Marion, Ind, Kokomo, Ind. Lin
coin, Neb.. Bloomington, Ind, Wichita
Falls, Tex, Evansville, Ind, Connors-
vile, Ind. Milwaukee, Wis, Cambridge,
Mass. Watertown, S. D., Colorado
Springs. Col. Butte, Mont, Annapolis,
Nd, Jefferson, Mo-, and Marquette,
Mich.
The figures also include those of
THE Leslie's Weekly" national poll.
Hoover Leads in Milwaukee
Wood took first place in every poll
except Milwaukee, where Hoover is
ahead by four votes. Here are the
complete figures: Wood, 4.73s; John
sou, 1881; Wilson, 1,1O2; Coolidge.
673; Lowden, 600; McAdoo, $50;
Hughes, 49S; Hoover, 457; Watson.
3ST; Taft, 245; Harding, 1872; BRYAN.
SO; Pershng, 90; Lodge, 65; Clark. Ga;
Palmer, 81; Lansing, 2.
The Wood people yesterday received
a report upon the situation in Indiana
favorable to General Wood. Harry
Hogan is the state manager for the
WOOD cs'-palgn committee, and or
ganization has been completed in all
OF the ninetytwo counties. The re-
port indicates that throughout the
state Wood will get plurality, but
probably not a majority, because of
the three other prominent candidates.
Harding, Lowden and johnson, who are
entering the contest in that state.
Representative Norman j. Gould, the
Eastern campaign manager for Wood,
issued the following statement in Bos-
ton yesterdays:
much as Governor Coolidge has an
nourced that he is not a candidate, the
majority OF the delegates at-large in
Massachusetts, are in favor of General
v Cd, and as majority sentiment of
the voters of the state is undoubtedly
foE Wood l have reason to believe
TIT they will support General Wood
st Chicago"
Fight to Gust King
nee the retirement of John T.
n. naoional Committeeman for Con-
nect.cut, from the Wood campaign the
a. king men in the Nutmeg State
have been busy with their plans to
GUS Mr. King from the National Com
mittee. Mr.. King now is in Florida,
watching the progress of the Wood
BON ard other booms from long dis
tance. The anti Wood men assert that
Co.onel Isaac Ullman, of New Haven,
WI supplant King as national COM
mitteeman, and the state leaders are
planaing to embarrass King further by
picking Representative Schuyler Mer-
rltt Of Kings district, for Governor
1t is believed that Mr.. King will be
back repairing his political fences
within the next week.
college professor concerned with
the trend of sentiment among the pro-
fessors of the colleges of the country
yesterday cheered the Hoover boomers
Wood among the pedagogues as
choice for the Republican nom. nee for
Pres dent, so far canvassed. Yester-
day was the second day of his can
vass, and the replies thus fsr received
are largely from Eastern professors.
The tally up to date follows:
Hoover, ga; Wood, 83; Lowden, 20;
Butler. "a; Johns on, 16; Harding, l;
Poindexter, 0.
The Western colleges are yet to be
heard from.
The Hiram W. Johnson-for- President
headquarters yesterday in formal
statement confirmed the reports that
the Johnson men have asked Will H.
Hays, chairman of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, for light concern
ing Colonel William Boyce Thompson's
relation with the national committee.
1T is true" said one of the Johnson
managers yesterday, that Mr.. Nc
Sween has sent to Chairman VIII H.
Hays, of the national committee, a
letter regarding William Boyce Thomp-