Arizona republican., 1920-06-12
TAXES LEAD AT. DEVELOPS
 GREAT STRENGTH
Shifting Votes Expected to
 Determine Issue at Early Hour Today - Four Bal- lots Taken Before Ad- journment--To Renew the Fight at 10 A. M. Today
[RepubIIean A. 2. Leasea WIrel

IRepublican A. p. Leased Wirel
 CHICAGO. June 11.-Four ballots in the Republican national convention today failed to unite the necessary ma jority on a nominee.
 It was the first time since 1888 that more than three ballots found The par ty without a choice and the seventh time since the nomination of Lincoln l. that more than one ballot had been required.
 Wood and Lowden were at their high water mark when the convention, after the fourth ballot. adjourned until 70 o'clock tomorrow morning.
 Johnson had received on the fourth ballot seven and one-half votes less than he received on the third.
 The contest then stood. Wood, 3141s; Lowden, 2S9; Johnson, 1401z, Hoover, ,; Harding. 611a: Sproul, 795a Coolidge. 25; Butler, 20; Knox, Poindexter, Is; Sutherland. g; Borah, l; Du Pont. 2; La Toilette. 22: Wat
 Fight Still Among Big Three
 At the adjournment hour it still re- mained a three -cornered fight between Wood. Lowden and Johnson. for the remaining 12 contestants held only 2An scattering votes among them. and most of them had been losing steadily since the first ballot. some one of the big three making accessions at their ex- pense.
 With these scattering votes, Hiram Johnson still was holding the balance of power. His 40 votes alone. even if cast for Wood or Lowden. would not be sufficient to nominate either. and there was not the slightst indica- tion of Johnson delegates deserting their nominee.
 The four ballots followed various en nd rf.u rsrf ra rTa-- clining Of the favorite son and com. plimentary votes. The vote for Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of New York steadily dwindled until on the closing ballot il stood at 20. Lowdcn forcet took most of the accessions from New York.
 Twentv-four votes from Wisconsin cast for La Toilette on three successive ballots amid misses and cat calls fell to 22 at the closing. if was the first convention in years at which La Fol- Ietfe himself had not appeared as candidate. Herbert Hoover's maximum strength of the day was seven votesi Philander Knox maximum was two,
 Adjournment Unexpected
 It was difficult to understand the sudden adjournment after four ballots had been taken. At the end Of the third ballot Johnson forces moved am adjournment and insisted upon 8 roll call after the motion had been defeated by a viva voce vote. The roll call showed the delegates voting over whelmingly to continue the ballotiug Toward the close of the fourth bal- lot it was seen that Wood and Low den both had made small gains and that the Johnson vote would show it's first loss.
 Senator Borah rushed 10 the plat form and urged that an adjournment be taken. Some of the Lowden people la1 lad fr3 BvrT TaFnrrnf n rfa sincerely wished 10 avoid the hardship of an all-night session and they con- scented not to oppose an adjournment motion. There is nothing to indicate that the Johnson and LoWden forces were working together by design. but adjournment was obtained through their joint efforts. The Wood forces were bitterly disappointed, as they be- lisved they could continue to gain until their total would climb over the 400 mark, if an adjournment could be avoided. They hoped that then would come a landslide or band wagon movement from the tired delegates Wood Leaders Confess Bad Strategy
 The Wood forces are saying tonight that there were more negative votes than affirmative. but they admitted that the latter made more noise and that MT Lodge probably was justified in ruling that adjournment had been ordered. They are also saying tonight that they showed bad strategy in not insisting on a roll call.
 The adjournment of the convention only transferred the battle from the floor of the Coliseum to the quiet Of conference rooms downtown where the leaders worked all night reforming their battle fronts hoping to bring about realignment of forces and turn the tide in a definite direction at the session tomorrow.
 Unless their efforts fail, the nominee is being actually made tonight, bus whether it will be decided to put over one of the three leaders or stage deadlock must await the decision. It the latter. the general opinion seems to favor the selection of a conservative dark horse
 In a grueIling 10-hour session. con ducted in intense summer heat and without interruption for recess or re- freshment. the convention buckied down to the job of attempting to put itse1f on schedule and heard, in sue cessiou nominating and secondlng speeches for II candidates. and then turned to the bauoting, votes being east for the II and numerous others.