The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-04-29
RESUL Ts IN Ne VI
JERSEY AND OHIO
NOT DECISIVE.
In Neither State Was the Victory
Very Emphatic
BOTH DELEGATIONS SPLIT
Wood Showed Unexpected Strength
in Ohio But Weaker Than Fig
ured in New Jersey.
BOTH DELEGATIONS SPLIT

| washington, April Io'-~ItspuDii-
can leaders here were unusually re-
luctant today to draw definite con-
clusions from the rather complicated
results OF the Presidential preference
primaries in New Jersey, Ohio and
Massachusetts yesterday They agreed
for the most part, however, on this
summary of the situation.
Major-Gen Wood has suffered
some loss cf prestige from his failure
to win complete and emphatic vic
tory in New Jersey, which is to some
degree offset by the close race he
gave Senator Harding (Ohio) in the
latter's home State.
Senator Harding has been weak
ened by the result in his home State
because his failure to secure a so id
delegation raises the question whet.
her he could be relied on to carry that
important State in the November
election
Senator Johnson tCal) increases
his Importance in the race by Tea-
son of getting a split in New Jer.
sey's delegation and running Gen.
Wood neck and neck in that Sta.e's
preference vote, although the organi-
zation was all against him.
The rapid disintegration Of sen.
timent for the peace trea.y and the
League OF Nations is indicated by the
great vote fer Senator Johnson lin
New Jersey and the big ma. gin by
which Senator Lodge (Mass.), Repub-
lican leader of the Senate, headed
lother candidates for delegates at
large in Massachusetts.
| Cleveland, April 2S-With only 100
precincts missing ont OF total OF
5,SS2. Ohio gives Senator Warren G.
Harding plurality of 1888 votes
over Major Cen Leona.d Wood. The
vote was: Harding 121,4S5: Wood
Il07652. About the same precincts
gave Senator Hiram Johnson (Cal)
1909. His name was written in
The use of stickers has been held IL
legal in Ohio. Hoover ran slightly
behind Johnson on available returns
OF twenty-five Congressional dis
tricts, Wood certainly has ca ried two
the Twelfth and the Twenty.second
The former comprises the city CT Co
lumbus, and the latter, part of Cleve
land and two rural counties. Two
other districts may be classed as
doubtful
New York, April 29.-W.h only
eightyeight out Of zoos election dis
tricts missing, Major Gen. Leonard
Wood is returned victor ever Sena
tor Hiram W. Johnson for the Repub
lican Presidential preference ol
New Je. sey by 4S5 votes.
The Wood managers said that thi,
cannot be overcome in later returns
but William P. Verdon, Jersey ClD
Johnson leader, charged last nigh
that Johnson had been counted cut II
Essex, Camden and Morris counties
The big Four" will consist o
United States Senators Walter e
Edge and Joseph S. Frelinghuysen
pledged to support the primar,
| choice e. C. Stokes, chairman of thl
( State Committee, the original Woor
+ man in Jersey, and William N. Run
: yon, formerly Governor and dry advo
cate. The latter defeated Thoma.
: J.. Raymond, wet and for Wood, an,
9 NJ. Il. Ballard, Johnson pledged candi
r date by only a small margin
J. The Johnson forces claim to hay,
= elected eleven pledged delegates
: They are Five in the Tenth. II ey
, enth and Twelfth Hudson County dis
= triots, two in the Thi d or Ocean dis
!. trict, two in the Passac district ant
{. two who ran unpledged in the scmer
: set district. They were unpledged
but are claimed because Johnson cal
: ried the district in the preference