The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-06-17
OHlAN HEADS THE TICKEI
HARDING NAMED BY REPUBLIC
ANS FOR PRESIDENCY. 4

Governor Coolidge, of Massachusetts
| His Running Mate-Nomination
Came on 10th BaIIot-North Car
oFina Goes to Harding Band
Wagon-Nominee Practical
Printer and Newspaper Man
| Chicago, June 12.-Warren G. Hard
ing, United States senator from Ohio,
was nominated for the presidency TO-
day by the Republican national eo4=
vention after deadlock which 1ead
for nine ballots and which finally
forced out of the running all the orig.
final favorites. I
AS III stunning mate the convention
named Governor Calvin Coolidge, Of
Massachusetts, upsetting a plan of a
combination of the Harding backefK
to nominate for the place Senatd
Iryine L. Lenroot, of Wisconsin
The collapse of the forces of Cod
ernoE Frank o. Lowden and theF
transfer in large part to Senator Hard
ing put the Ohio candidate over.
General Wood lost heavily, how
ever, when the Harding drift begah
and Senator Johnson, the third of the
trio OF leaders on the early bal1oting
yesterday also went steadily doWp
hill. -
Entering the convention four dafe
ago as candidate distinctly of tie
dark horse" class, Senator Hardifg
got only "a votes on the first ba1lat,
yesterday and on the second he drU{r
ped to Sc. &
When the convention adjourned
last night at the end of the fourth
ballot he had 81 ~~s
In all night conferences among the
party chiefs, however, he was men
toned many times as the most likely
to break the nomination deadlock
should neither Wood, Lowden nor
Johnson take a commanding lead To-
day. They all failed to- do so, Wood
and Lowden running neck and neck
race for leadership on four more bal
lots while the strength of the Cali
fornia candidate dwindled steadily.
Meantime Harding pushed his total
to 133, individual delegates from many
states swinging to him from the COL
umns of the leaders and of various
favorite sons. The Johnson man
ayers, fearing a landslide was i'm
pending, then made last play to save
the fortunes of their candidate They
moved to recess for couple of hours
in order to take, an inventory pnd
seek new combination The Wood
and LOwden forces, both virtually at
the peak Of their strength, but both
disheartened at the long string of
ballots without material gains, fell in
with the recess plan, and the conven-
tion 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 off the Harding BOOM
Some tried to get Wood-Lowden-
Johnson agreement to adjourn until
Monday without making a nomination
There also was a conference between
Johnson and Harding supporters in
which the OhiOan's supporters tried
without success to have the remaining
strength swung to Harding.
1t was the parleys between the
men, however, which
apparently bore the most fruit when
the ballOting began again, for Gov
ernOr LOWden came to the convention
during the ninth roll call and, re-
previous plan to go before
the convention itself, issued instruc-
tiOns from behind the scenes releas- !
ing his instructed delegates. Senator |
Harding also was in eue rear of the !
coliseum platform during the voting
and conferred with Chairman Hays.
The End in Sight.
Almost as soon as the alphabetical |
call of states began after the recess,
the ground swell for Harding demon
strated that it could not be forestalled |
Connecticut, when her name was call
ed, took 13 of her IA votes from Low
len and gave them to Harding. In
Florida he got seven from Wood, and
then Kentucky, almost from the first
solid Lowden state, Topped COM
plete into the Harding column.
Amid scenes of rising enthusiasm
other blocks of Lowden delegates fol-
owed suit while many of the routed .
Wood supporters also went into for
he Harding camp. By the end of the
roll call Senator Harding had rolled
Up total of 374, putting him far into
he lead and several score of votes
learer the nomination :-an any can
lida1e had been before. Lowdan, at
he end of the ninth had only 121
votes left out of the 3O7 with which
ne ended the eighth, and General r
Woods strength had fallen from 299
IN the eighth to 249 on the ninth
Tohnson's dropped from 81. TO so.
To Harding PeII Nell.
AS the tenth roll call began, dele
gates quit Lowden, Wood and John
son right and left and the big hall was
n almost continuous applause as state
after state announced accession to the
standard. It was, reserved =
or Pennsylvania to add the crowning