The Washington herald., 1920-06-12


tensive cultivation" of promising
trading possibilities by the managers
Of the Wood and Lowden camps.
Thus far, the vote has justified their
pre-balloting claims. Hitchcock, in
charge of Woods fortunes and
Emerson, superintendent of Lowden's
interests, both have persistently con-
tended that their candidates strength
would be augmented from ballot to
ballot from the falling off of the
"favorite son" vote. Both, too, have
maintained that their peak strength
would not be reached until the fifth
ballot % thereabouts. We shall b. at
hat pivotal scene of the great Coli
scum drama tomorrow.
Move to Knox Predicted.
From Chicago conning-towers
where political wise men are look
ing at the situation tonight with
analytical eyes comes the intima-
tion to keep close watch on Knox.
The Pennsylvania Senator appeared
with a lone vote from his own
delegation on the second ballot. On
the third ballot he received 2 votes
and 2 again on the fourth The
vote for Governor Sproul. of Penn
sylvania, has not yet demonstrated
any sensational flush. The COVER
nor entered the race with Pennsyl-
vania's solid rs votes behind him
and II. cast for him in a number
of other States. He sank to 7SL
on the second ballot, absorbed an
other vote on the third and re-
mained stationary at 1914 on the
nights final tabulation.
There is a suggestion, which can
not. be verified as yet. that IL the
governors candidacy does not de-
velop greater powers of attraction
than it has thus far revealed. a
break" to Knox is on the cards.
New York, it has been thought,
might be found bestowing some of
/ its big vote on Senator Knox. But
the indications are that State Sem
dtOT Iully, OF lne Empire state
delegation-as ] have foreshadowed
earlier in the WEEKS more likely
to lead the vote into the Lowden
column when the grand disintegra-
tion sets in.
Neither the Harding nor the
Coolidge candidacy, each of which
we have been warned during the
past twenty-four hours to observe
ct ha triU 70 dof 70
assume noteworthy dimensions.
Senator Harding ended up the
night with siXty-one and one-half
| votes, a net loss of three from his
first ballot total. Gov. Coolidge
started with twenty-nine. but with
twenty-five at the finish is seven
short of his third ballot maximum
of thirty-two.
Believe johnson Has Failed.
The balloting fortunes of Senator
Johnson are in accord with general
expectations. He is universally be-
lieved to have shot his bolt. The
California delegation is resolutely
obeying its masters will-said to
be expressed from Johnson's rooms
in the Blackstone Hotel by tele-
i'phone direct to the delegation
leadership on the convention floor.
There has been no break away yet
from Johnson's solid delegation
strength of twenty-siX votes.
Michigan, which Johnson captured
at the primary election. also re-
mains loyal to him thus far. voting
it's thirty delegates for him stead
fastly, ballot after ballot. Mayor
Thompson, of Chicago, in inveter-
ate hatred of Gov. Lowden. also
continues to drive his faithful sew
enteen. Cook County votes into the
breach for Johnson with each sue
ceeding ballot. California, Michi-
gan and Illinois thus constitute the
kernel of the Johnson strength.
supplemented by. ten faithful votes
from Nebraska and eleevn appsr-
emily immovable ovtes from New
Jersey
Herbert Hoover's strength in the
convention, If It exists in any sub
stantial degree, has yet ITO emerge.
1t showed seven svotes in the first
ballot, 5h each in the second and
third and closed with five.
New York contains three Hoover
delegates; Maine one and Wisconsin
one.
Perhaps the one noteworthy as
pect of the opening ballots upon
which I have not yet touched is one
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