The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-05-19
REGULAR SLATE
PROBABLY Wins
In Primary Election for All
Parties in Pennsylvania.
Penrose UnoppoSed.
NAME M'AD00 WRIT

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Philadelphia, May 19.--RetuI Z pm
yesterdays primary election 8 all
parties In Pennsylvania were :. In
complete early today. but : snt
figures were received that ID ! to
indicate the probable winners ! ose
returns showed all but one of IN ~ I've
slated candidates OF the regulaI : ib-
lican state organization for di.s es-
at-large were leading. There we're fif-
teen candidates. or those not on the
regular slate W. Freeland Kendrick,
who was supported by the Ware wing
Of. the republican party in Philadel-
phia, ran strong in eastern counties.
Organization leaders predicted that the
slated twelve. Those on the regular
slate were Senators Penrose and Knox,
Governor Sproul, Mayor Babcock OF
Pittsburgh, and Mayor Moore OF Phila-
delphia, State Attorney-General w, l.
Schaffer, w. w. Atterbury. James FL
drew w. Mellon, Asher Minor and J.
Leonard Replogle. Returns. from l,6dS
districts out OF Ills In the state showed
the following for the candidates, whose
vote was tabulated in the early returns;
Babcoex ssstl; Charles & Il siddls, sSs. sss
sPenrose, S4,916; Sproul. 106,707.
The res ular state organisation
claimed the election of nearly all its
sixty-four district delegates.
Palmer and McAdoo.
Presidential preferences did not figure
directly in the voting for delegates-at-
large, the contests being largely to
settle factional differences and per-
sonnel OF the delegation.
While the election laws provided Tor q
preferential primary, only one name,
that of II. r. Wood, a retired Phila-
delphia business man, appeared on the
republican ballot, and received light
vote, There were scattering votes Tor
other candidates written In the ballot,
but few figures were reported on these
In the early returns.
Attorney General Palmer was the
only candidate for president whose
name appeared In the democratic pref
erentiai ballot. At the eleventh hour
in the campaign the Bonniwell faction
urged its followers to write the name
and considerable number OF demo-
Gratis followed the suggestion. An In
teresting contest was that for member
of the democratic national committee
from Pennsylvania. Returns from LOO
districts out of the 7,l1S showed Joseph
II. Guffey of Pittsburgh, supported by
the attorney-general, to be leading
Eugene Bonniwell. who is heading the
opposing faction, by S29 The vote so
far in was: Guffey, 1887; BonniwelL
1883.
United States Senator Penrose had no
opposition for denomination to the sem
ate, On the returns 80 far received
the Palmer leaders claimed that vir-
tually all their seventy-six national
delegates were successful, and that
their entire state ticket was nominated
over that placed in the held by the
Bonniwel group. They also claimed
.tlaAAwstlaa laaasatie estaaewso9nainittoe
would be controlled by Mr. Palmer and
his friends.
The ballot was the longest In the his
tory OF Pennsylvania statewide pri-
mary elections, and slowed. up the
count everywhere. The returns were
so slow Iii arriving that the various
state political headquarters closed UP
early last night, leaders declaring 1t
was useless to wait for incomplete
figures.