The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-12

actly 100 votes since the first ballot
yesterday.
Eighth Ballot.
Illinois: 58 votes; II to Johnson;
Al, Lowden.
Indiana: Lowden, 4; Harding, IL:
Wood, IS. .# 81.
Harding had been making steady
small gains throughout the fifth and
sixth ballots and word had come up
from delegates that leaders were 60
ing to fight it out little longer be-
fore the expected break.
Michigan Breaks to Wood.
Michigan with 80 for Johnson was
the first state to change in today's
balloting giving votes to General
Wood
Ohio also gave some Harding votes
to Wood but the Harding men said
they would return to the Harding
column with accessions expected from
New York.
With tie score between the leaders
at the end of the sixth ballot and
everybody expecting a jump one way
or the other on the seventh, conven.
tion gave itself up to 10 minutes of
uproar before it proceeded.
The floor leaders of the forces took
advantage of the pandem monium which
gave them time to do to do some hur
ried comforting and laying of lines for
the seventh ballot.
Ohio Has First Split.
The lineup of the Ohio delegation
broke on a poll during the sixth ballot,
some of the Harding strength going to
Wood Wood gained four. The vote
was: Harding 35, Wood 13.
Wood stood on the seventh the same
as on the sixth, 35 for Harding, and 13
a, for Wood.
Pennsylvania continued to stand pat
| on Sproul, amid the cheering of her
| delegation.
On the eighth ballot the official
! Indiana count was II to Wood; five to
! LOwden and eight to Harding.
Harding got a gain of another two
| from Alabama on the eighth ballot
He also got a gain of three from In
diana.
| On the eighth ballot Michigan broke
again and Lowden votes appeared. At
| the same time Charles E. Warren,
former national committeeman from
Michigan was comforting with the New
| York delegation and Lowden acces-
sions were expected.
The Michigan ballot as 1t stood on
/ the eighth was 10 for Johnson, 13 for
Wood, and seven for Lowden.
OF Indiana's 80 votes, five Harding;
two Johnson; seven Lowden; 16 Wood.
See Harding as Solution.
| Harding, Of Ohio. emerged early
from all night conferences of Repub-
lican chieftains as the man to break
the imminent deadlock on the presi-
dental nomination. On him they
planned to concentrate their strength
should the convention fail to break
i through the blockade established yes
terdaY by four ballots.
! Senator Harding participated In the
iconferences. He also saw Senator
Johnson in the latter's private apart.
ments, but the California Senator des.
cribed the visit as convention CALI"
Details Of the meeting were not dis.
closed, 1t gained significance because
hackers of the Harding movement are
looking to Johnson supporters for aid
pr their plans materialize.
| Plan to Make Strength
The tentative plan of originators OF
the new Harding boom was contingent
upon failure OF early votes today tc
result in nomination of Wood, Lowder
Tor Johnson.
Among those with whom Senator
Harding conferred during the nigh,
were Senators Wadsworth and Calder
New York; Brandegee, Connecticut
Smoot, Utah, William Barnes Jr, and
Ogden Mills, New York.
Participants in these conferences
and floor managers for Wood, Lowder