Arizona republican., 1920-06-13
10 Ballots Required To Break Deadlock In Favor of Dark Horse Vice Presidency
 Goes To Bay State Man On First Ballot
Arizona Solid for Wood Throughout, Switching Only After Sen. Harding s Nomination Assured
IRepubIican A. P. Leased wIrel

CHICAGO, June 12-Warren C. Harding. United States senator from Ohio. was~nominated for the presidency today by the Republican national con vention after a deadlock which lasted for nine ballots and which finally forced out of the running all the orl6 inal favorites
 As his running mate, the convention named Governor Calvin Coolidge or Massachusetts, upsetting plan Of a combination of the Harding packers 10 nominate for the place Senator Irwin IL. Lenroot of Wisconsin.
 Lowden Collapse Deciding Turn
 The collapse of the forces of Gov ernor Frank O Lowden and their trans fer. in large part, to Senator Harding put the Ohio candidate over.
 General Wood lost heavily, however. when the Harding drift began. and Senator Johnson. the third of the trio of leaders on the early balloting yester- day, also went steadily down hill. Entering the convention four days ago as d candidate distinctly of the dark horse class, Senator Harding got only 64 votes on the first ballot ! yesterday and on the second he dropped i to 56.
 When the convention adjourned last l night at the end Of the fourth ballot he had 61.
 i In all night conferences among the party chiefs, however, Senator Hard l ing was mentioned many times as the most likely to break the nomination deadlock should neither Wood, LoWder nor Johnson take commanding lea@ 1 today
 They all failed to do so. Wood and 1 I.owden running a neck and neck race
 for leadership on four ballots, Wnlie
 the strength O. the California canoi-
 date dwindled steadily
 Johnson Strategy Fails
 lsrtr~ HnnHe her
 to I23. individual delegates from many
 states swinging to him from the co't
 urnns of the leaders and of their flaw
 orite sons. Johnson managers, learns 1 a landslide was impending, then mace ! a last rlay to stay the fortunes Of thcii
 candidate. They moved to recess doi
 a couple of hours in order to take ar ! inventory and form a new combina e tion The Wood and Lowden torcc-
 both virtually at the peak or thei n strength, but disheartened at the ioni I string of ballots without material gam D feIl in with the recess plan and th'
 convention adopted it.
 < In the dramatic succession or coh z ferences that followed. the fate cf m - ! candidates virtually was sealed. som of the Wood and Lowden manager
 tried Intellectually for an aEreemen z which would hold their delegates ii z line and kill off the Harding boom a Some tried to get Wood -Lo4Tdcn. Johnson agreement to adjourn lii
 Monday without making a nomination e There also was a conference betweeI A Johnson and Harding supporters ii ' which the Ohioan's supporters triet !. without success to have the remaining Y Johnson strength swung to Harding
 II was the parleys between the Hard - ing and I.owden men. however, Whict < apparently bore the most fruit whcI
 the balioting began again. for Governo
 bowden came to the convention durins r the ninth roll call and, reversing
 previous plan to go before the conven- a tfon itself. issued instructions from IF behind the scenes releasing his in- : structed delegates. Senator Harding n also was in the rear of the Coliseum : platform during the voting and con q ferred with Chairman Hays = Harding Not to Be Denied ,e Almost as soon as the alphabettca t call of states began after the recess tn d ground swell for Harding demon $ strated that it could not be fore 1 stalled. Connecticut, whep her nam Il was called. took 13 Of her l4 vote e from Lowden and gave them to Hard
 ing In Florida he got from Wood
 and then Kentucky, almost from th