Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-06
JOHNSON LEADS IN
CALIFORNIA; WOOD
AHEAD IN INDIANA
Governor Cox Has Big Ma
jority of Delegates in Ken
tucky-Hoover's Manager
Comedies Defeat

SAN FRANCISCO, May 5.-Returns
tabuIated early today from yester-
days presidential preferential election
showed Senator Hiram Johnson, OF
San Francisco, leading his rival, Her
bert c. Hoover, of Palo Alto, Cal, by
wide margin.
Incomplete returns from fifty-four
Of the states fifty-eight counties and
representing 1859 Of a total of 5,729
precincts, showed the following vote
on the group of twenty-six delegates
pledged to support Senator johnson
at the national convention and rival
group Of tWenty-six pledged to Mr..
Hoover:
Johnson group 2S3,4S7.
Hoover group 155,765.
At ten o'clock last night Ralph P.
Merritt, campaign manager of the
| Hoover Republican Club of California,
conceded the election of the Johnson
delegates. but declared the issues rep
resented by Mr.. Hoover would con-
tinue to command the attention of
the country and eventually at the Re-
| publican convention Hoover will be
nominated for the presidency"
In addition to delegates to the Re-
publican convention, an uninstructed
Democratic delegation and prohibit
ton party delegation, pledged to
Henry Clay Needham, of Los Angeles,
| for the party presidential nomination,
were chosen.
| In all but three counties Senator
Johnson had lead. In Los Angeles
county the Hoover ticket led the
Johnson ticket by a vote of 39,709 to
3O,52S
In San Francisco city and county
with only two of the 3S1 precincts
missing, Johnson's vote was 6S,777,
and Hoover's 25,016.
MOST OF KENTUCKY'S
DELEGATES FOR COX
| LOUISVILLE, KY, May 5.-Only
Kentucky's delegates from the state
at-large were instructed last night
| by the Democratic state convention
to vote for Governor James Cox, of
Ohio, los long as his name remains
before the national convention" no
mention being made Of the twenty
two district delegates. Governor
Cox, however, will have twenty of
| the states tWenty-SiX votes, sixteen
of the delegates having been ordered
| by their districts to do so. The
other six are uninstructed.
When the instructions were read
just before adjournment Of the con-
vention at 1870 O'Clock this morn
! ing, many delegates misunderstood
them because of noise, and this led
to the erroneous belief that the en-
tire delegation had been instructed
| for Governor Cox.
Johnson N Camden, Versailles,
former United States senator, was
elected national committeeman after
fight on the floor that plunged
| the convention into an uproar just
before adjournment. He defeated
Marion L. Taylor. Louisville. by a
vote of 1884 to 96S.
For the first time in history, Ken
lucky women attended a Democratic
state convention. Three of them and
five men. all with half vote each,
were elected delegates to
the national convention.
The report Of the resolutions COM
mittee was unanimously adopted. It
denounced what it termed obstruc-
tive tactics used by Republicans in
congress toward constructive legis-
| lation; Endorsed without reserve the
administration Of President Wilson
and called attention to his "war
achievements" AS regards the
peace treaty the report Endorsed the
administrations stand and approved
| placing the issue before the coun-
fry