The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-03
BOTH PARTIES WILL
 SELECT DELEGATES
 DURING THE WEEK
Indiana, With Thirty Dele gates to Each Convention, Will Hold Primaries on
 May 12 and IS
By Associated Press

New York. May 2.-Fifty-four
 delegates to the republican na-
 tionaI convention and sixty-eight
 delegates to the democratic ma
 tionaI convention will be selected
 in primaries and state conventions
 to he held this week.
 In addition Indiana, which sends thirty delegates to each national con- vention, will hold a preferential presi- dential primary, preparatory to the re- publican and democratic state conven- tions May 12 and May IS. respectively, at which the delegates are. elected.
 Utah republicans hold state con- vention at ogden tom orrow, at which eight delegates are chosen, four dis trict delegates and four at large. Sen ator Hiram Johnson, Governor Low den and General Wood each have con- ducted a campaign in the state.
 Sixteen delegates to each national convention will be elected at the presi- dential preference primary in Mary land tomorrow. Senator Johnson and General Wood are the principal re- publican presidential contest stants, elec- tors also having the opportunity to vote for uninstructed delegates The name of no candidates for the demo- cratic presidential nomination appear on the ballot.
 CONVENTION IN KENTUCKY
 Kentucky elects twenty-six dele gates to the democratic national con svention at a state convention in Louis ville Tuesday. The principal contest will be between delegates wishing to go to the national convention unin- structed and those pledged to Governor Cox of Ohio.
 California holds a statewide pri- mary Tuesday to choose twenty-six delegates each to the republican. demo- cratic and prohibition national con- ventions. Chief interest there centers in the fight between group of publican candidates for delegates pldeged to Senator Johnson and an- other group pledged to Herbert Hoover.
 On the democratic ticket of Califor- mia, Henry H. Childers of Los Angeles, who favors a liberal interpretation of the national prohibition amendment, is running as lone candidate against a group of twenty-six unpledged can- didates. There is no contest in the pro- hibition party, the twenty-six candi- dates being pledged to the candidacy of Henry Clay Needham of Los An geles.
 There are four republican candidates in the preferential presidential pri- mary in Indiana on Tuesday. They are Governor Lowden, General Wood, Sem .,tar Harding Of Ohio and Senator Johnson The delegates to be chosen at the state conventins later will be instructed for the presidential candi- date receiving a majority vote in the primary. If no candidate received Q ma ajority, the state convention may either instruct It's delegates for any one candidate or allow them to go to the convention uninstructed.
 RELIEF IN ADVANCE
 The names of no candidates for the democratic presidential nomination will appear on the ballot in Indiana, although voters have the privilege of writing in names of candidates of they so desire.
 The name of w C. Webster of New York appears on the ballot as a can didate for the republican nomination for vice president.
 The republican state conevntion in Michigan, to be held Wednesday,, win
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