Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-27
WOOD VS.. JOHNSON
CHIEF FEATURE OF
PRIMARIES TODAY
Massachusetts to Go to Coolidge
is Best Guess Of the Political
Sages.
..lRAH TO WIN IDAHO,
%oOINDEXTER WASHINGTN
y, s,c,a,ed Press TO Every Evening

Nv Associated Press 10 Every Evening
New York. April 2T.--Five States today
will Jolt or Jump the hopes OF five Re
m,blican Presidential candidates. Chef
interest centers in the New Jersey fight,
where Wood and Johnson will lock horns
for the first time In any of the I'm portant
Eastern States.
After all of the eleventh-hour harangulng
had been concluded and the last-mnute
forecasts of the various campaign man
aqers had been feverishly pounded oil the
typewriters, the result was expected
TODAY to he something like this:
In the New Jersey Primary .'enerai
Wood narrowly beating Senator Johnson
In the preferential vote on their respective
selves. with Wood delegates espredominatihg
bv a considerable margin IN the list oi
IS selected.
In the Ohio primary-Senator Harding
winning the preference vote over General
Mood with Wood obtaining handful oi
the 4s delegates elected and johnson
running ss second choice ON both the
Harding and Wood states.
In the Massachusetts Primary ne
R;y-Fmlr slate pledged 10 Coolidge,
winning over the two Wood candidates
and the one Hoover candidate opposing
The organization. Election OF from 10
10 of the district delegates running as
n1t-and-out Wood men against the slate
ticket Thirtv-five delegates to be elect
ed. \ Coolidge delegation marks ms
official entrance into the race.
In the Washington primary, Senator
poindexter, winning the delegation OF ~,
made his first bag OF pledged support.
In the Idaho convention, Borah con
trolling the eight delegates to bc selected
assuring their delivery TO Johnson,
There appears to be only one chs1hee
Of upsetting the dope and that Is IA
New Jersey. ,Iohnsons managers, on the
eve OF the vote, declared their ansoiule
confidence that johnson would carry
tba State bv 1000 TO 6.OoO. They base
this conviction on the heavy labor vote
in Jersey and the showing of their candi-
late in recent primaries. On the latter
basis Wood s managers say Wood will WIN.
Asa matter of fact in the seven states
where primaries have been held so rs 10
permit Of a line on the leading candidates,
the following votes were polled according
10 the latest official figures:
In Minnesota Wood pollcd the most
votes. with 1882; Johnson, 5 5lf; Hoo
yer. i.i3i. and Lowden, 1910.
In South Dakota. Wood .polled the
most votes, with 1862; Lowden, 25''oi (;
johnson, 23,594.
In Michigan Johnson polled the most
votes. with l59, ,939; Wood,7 SOC; Lowden
den, 62.413: Hoover, 52,503, and Pom
dexter, 2,662. =,
In Wisconsin LaFollette polled The
most votes. with 1889; Wood. = loo;
Hoover, 1,6l2; Johnson, 9ll, and Lowden:
32d.
In Illinois, Lowden polled the most
votes. with 222, ,15s; Wood loc' ioi'
and johnson, 45,5S}.
In Nebraska johnson polled the most
votes. according to the account which IS
not complete rs here presented getting
a 7,SSS; Wood, 33,641, and fershlng' IL
In Montana the incomplete figures to
date show Johnson winning, with 7l64;
Mood. I.776: Hoover, l,503, and Lowdcn,
40.