The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-20
None of G.. o. p. Candidates Has
Sure Thing.
Less Than 100 Delegates Yet To
Be Picked.
MAJORITY is UNRESTRICTED
Gen. Wood Has 145 Delegates
Pledged to Him.
No Choice on First Ballot
Many Eavorite Sons.

Chicago. May 2o.-With the Re-
publican national convention only
eighteen days away. and 500 of the
9S4 delegates already elected the stu
alton facing the Republican eandi-
dates is that no candidate will enter
the convention with enough votes
pledged to him to give any decided
advantage Over his opponents.
Forty-seven of the fifty-three states
cations and are sending to Chicago
5S7 uninstrueted delegates, forty-four
more than majority of all those who
will sit in the convention.
Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood. on the
face of returns to date. will show the
most strength on the first ballot, for
of those delegates who have been in
structed or who have expressed a pref
erence, 145 are pledged to him. In
addition he carried the preferential
primary in Vermont. but that states
eight delegates have not yet been
chosen by the state convention.
Are Thirteen Contests.
Woods nearest competitor in the
delegations already pledged is Senator
Hiram Johnson of California, who
commands an even hundred votes.
Governor Frank o. Lowden of Illi-
nois. with IS votes pledged to him, is
third. while Senator Warren ]. Hard
ing of Ohio has 80 votes from his
home state.
There are. however, contests pend
ing in twelve states and the District
of Columbia, involving 104 delegates.
Thirty-five of the contests are on
Wood delegates; six on Lowden and
SO among uninstructed delegations.
The credentials committee will meet
here May 81 tothresh out these con-
tests.
Many Favorite Sons
Campaign managers at Chicago for
the various candidates agree that
there will be no nomination on the
first ballot. The complimentary vote
for the large list of "favorite sons
may. in fact, they say, be so large that
it will destroy the usual significance of
the first ballot as an indicator of the
strength of the various candidates.
Among those candidates who are ex-
pected to divide the uninstructed vote
on the first ballot, in many cases
commanding all or part of the dele
gates from their home states are Gov
ernol Sproul, Pennsylva mia; Governor
Coolidge, Massachusetts,; Senator Sun
derland, West Virginia; Senator Pom
dexter Washington; Senator La Fol-
lette, Wisconsin; DR.. Murray Nicholas
Butler, New York; Herbert Hoover,
California; and Judge Pritchard,
North Carolina. Senator Poindexter
has fourteen instructed votes from
Washington; Judge Pritchard, sew
enteen from North Carolina; Governor
Coolidge, thirty-three from Massa
chusetts, and the other candidates
have, or expect to have, varying num-
hbers.
Campaign managers here of the
three candidates who are leading in
delegates actually instructed have
made definite claims as to the vote
they expect to receive in the conven-
ton Major General Woods head
quarters has issued a statement de-
claring he will have from 29T to 302
votes on the first ballot; that he will
sain from 12 to 20 on the second bal
let and that he will be nominated on
the third or fourth.
johnson Claims 335 Votes.
The Johnson managers here say re-
ports from their workers turnout the
country shoH they will have S35 votes
IN the first ballot and that the sena-
or will be nominated on the third or
-ourth.
Governor Lowden's managers give
no estimate of how many votes they
cxpect to have on the first ballot, but
IL a published statement have assured
the governor he will win the nomina-
,ion with 522 votes. They predict the
break in his favor will come after the
third ballot