The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-05-07
NUMBER IS
WOOD VICTORIOUS
in H0OSIER STATE
Margin Over Johnson Small
Lowden And Harding
Trailing


Leonard Wood continued to make
Slight gains over Senator Hiram John
son, OF California, his nearest oppo-
nent for the Indiana presidential
preference vote in yesterdays State
wide primary, as returns continued
to be tabulated here today.
At 1 o'clock, with $500 precincts
out of 1887 in the State reported.
Wood was leading by plurality of g.
663. The vote stood; Wood 64,SSS;
Johnson, 59,225; Gov. Frank o. Low
den, of Illinois, S0,014; Senator w. c..
Harding, of Ohio, 1868.
A majority vote would make the
primary binding on the State conven-
tion under the State law.
Warren T. McCray, of KentIand,
continued to pile up his early major
ity in the Republican contests for the
nomination for governor, and when
tabulation of 2,15S precincts had
been made McCray had 1880 to 49,
026 for James w. Fesles of Indiana
polls and 26,77S for E. C. Toner, of
Anderson.
With fewer precincts-1, 200
heard from DR.. Charlton B. McCul-
loch, of Indianapolis was running
away from the field in the Democratic
gubernatorial contest, and politicians
early today predicted that he would
win by good-sized majority If he
continued his present gains. Mason
]. Niblack, of Vincennes was running
second, with. John Isenbarger of
North Manchester a close third and
J. X. Risk, of Lafayette fourth. The
vote was McCulloch, 1901; Niblack,
1899; Isenbarger, 7,725; and Risk,
5,S34.
Candidate for Congress Dies
Despite the spirited campaign wag-
ed in the contests for the Republican
presidential preference vote and for
the gubernatorial nomination on both
the Democratic and Republican
tickets, there were very few reports
of trouble in any section of the State.
Fair, warm weather which prevailed
cut down the vote, say political ex-
perts, who added that the ruling of
the State Election Commissioners
that writing in of names of candidates
on a ticket invalidated the entire bal
lot also tended to lessen the total
vote cast. The vote itself was con-
sidered puzzle by the experts who
gave up trying to account for the
trend in various counties.
In Harrison County election day
was married by the sudden death of
j. L. O'Bannon, the candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Congress
in the Third District.
Republicans Are Winners.
Races for congressional nominal
tions served to enliven the primary
election contests in a number of In
diana districts. In the main the Re-
publican incumbents were nominated
without opposition, but the Demo-
Gratis staged some strenuous compe-
titions, particularly in Southern In
diana.
Early returns indicated that there
would be no change in the list of
Republican candidates, with the Sew
enth District doubtful, and represen-
tative Benham having defeated his
Republican opponent in the only 9TH
er G. o. P. primary fight in the
Fourth District.
Representatives Luhrig, of the
First District, Bland of the Second,
Dunbar of the Third, Sanders of the
Fifth, Elliott, of the Sixth. Vestal OF
the Eighth, Purnell of the Ninth.
Wood of the Tenth, Kraus of the
Eleventh. Fairfield of the Twelfth
and Hickey of the Thirteenth were
without the necessity OF
with fellow Republicans.