Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-28
No REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATE HAS
MAJORITY VOTE
No Choice On First Ballot Is
Possible: Wood Is Lead
ing But Is Far From Hav-
ing Prize CinChed.

Chicago, May 27.-Candidates
for the republican nomination for
the presidency today opened their
final drive 10 capture the 493 votes
that spell victory in the convention
which opens here one week from
next Tuesday. The last of the 9S4
delegates who will sit in the con-
ventlon were selected yesterday,
when Vermont republicans chose
eight delegates.
Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood pres
ent returns show, will enter the
convention with more instructed
votes than any other candidate but
his total of 1873 is less than one
third of the number necessary to
win the nomination.
The division of strength among
the large field of "favorite sons
practically precludes any POSSIBLE
ity of nomination on the first
ballot, Even the most optimistic
campaign managers here are not
claiming victory before the third
ballot, and the more conservative
party leaders predict the break will
not come before the fifth or sixth
at the earliest.
Many Contests Filed.
One big factor which may up
set campaign managers predictions
is yet to be dealt with. one hun
dred and forty-five contests have
been or will be filed. More than
one-seventh of all the seats in the
convention being at stake, and the
national committee which meets
here Monday to decide these con
tests and prepare the temporary
roll may materially alter the pros
poets of several candidates.
The principal contests are be-
tween supporters of Major Cen
eral Wood and Governor Frank O. |
Lowdon senator Johnson and 9TH
er candidates are not directly in |
terested in these contests. but may |
raise questions regarding primary |
contests in south Dakota, New Jer-
sey, Indiana, Michigan Nebraska |
and other states.
In addition to the las contests, |
surplus delegates, with |
fractional votes. have been chosen |
from ten states. and the republican |
committees rules provide |
a. IL, E,rh -, 90 oh nj
be contested. The convention call |
stated that no oversize delegation |
should be seated and no seats have |
been provided for these siXty-fou9.
Senator Hiram Johnson and SEN
ator Howard Sutherland Of West |
Virginia were the principal gamers
in primaries and conventions held |
in four states during the past week.
Senator Johnson, returns indicate
will get nine of Oregon's ten votes
and Senator Sutherland sixteen
from West Virginia. The official
count has not been completed In
Oregon and West Virginia. Texas
'epubicans split into two factions,
each of which elected an unin-
,tructed delegation with twenty
hree votes.
Division of Vote.
Figures were compiled here
the following division Of
he convention vote:
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, 1853,
Senator Johnson, 1903.
Governor Lowden, "A.
Favorite sons and uninstructed,
AS.
In the favorite sons list, Sena-
or Warren G. Harding has 80
'otes from Ohio; Senator Suth-
16 from West Virginia;
senator Miles Poindexter is ex-
,ected to receive Washington's IA:
nd Judge Pritchard of North Car
lima is expected to get II of his
tate's 90 votes.
Campaign managers here of the
hree leading candidates all claim
ictory in statements issued last
light. The Wood and Johnson
amps make definite predictions as
, their first ballot vote, the sup
orters of the general claiming 1856
otes and those of the senator 236.
he Lowden forces, while profess
lg their confidence, are not pre-
AIRED to quote exact figures.