Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-04
MARYLAND FOR WOOD
REJECTS JOHNSON BY
MAJORITY OF 7,841
Military Candidate Carries All
But Two Counties and Gets
All State Delegates.
DEMOCRATS RENOMINATE
SMITH AS u. s. SENATOR
ny Associated Press to Every Evening

Baltimore, May Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood defeated Senator Hiram w. john
son Of California, in an unusually light
vote yesterday in the primaries for Mary
lands preference for the Republican nom
nation for President, by a majority Of
7.s41, according to practically complete
returns today, the few missing precincts
are scattered and are not expeetrd 10
alter the result materially.
The vote was: Wood 1890; Johnson
$3.50 General Wood carried all four
legislative districts IN Baltimore and all
but two Of the % counties AlleganY
in the mining district, and Washington.
Johns majority was S0l i'm Allegany and
fifty in Washington.
According To the returns General Wood
will have 1i6 Of the 129 delegates to the
state convention which viii name sixteen.
delegates 20 the national convention
These will be instructed, in accordance
with the state election laws 20 vote as a
unit for Wood as lorg as IN their con
scient,osn judgment" ne has q reasonable
chance of winning the nomination.
The Congressional primaries resulted
as follows by districts--lin dlcating re-
nominations:
First-T. Alan Goldsborough, Dem
ocrat; (x) W. " Andrews Republican.
Second--fx) Carville ID. Benson, Dem
ocrat; A. A. Blakeney, Republican.
Third-(x) Charles p Coady, Democrat
John Phillip Hill, Republican.
Fourth, (xl ]. G.. Linthicum, Democrat;
w. O. Oatwood, Republican.
Fifth Thomas n klinger, Democrat,
fx) SYDNEY f. Mudd, Republican.
Sixth-Frank w. Mish, Democrat;
XXI Fred ". Zihlman, Republican.
United States Senator John Walter
smith, Democrat, was unopposed for
denomination. His Republican opponent
is Ovington E. Weller, of Baltimore
county.
There was no democratic contest for
presidential nomination and the state
delegation will go to San Francisco un-
instructed.
On the Eastern Shore. long eonsid cred
the dry citadel of Maryland, Hutton W.
Robertson, unknown in most of the dis
trict until this campaign, running as a
wet for the Democratic nomination,
gave T. Alan Goldsborough, prominent
lawyer of Caroline county, backed by
most of the organization and antl-orga-
ization forces a hard fight.
Robertson carried Cecil, Kent and
Dorchester counties. Goldsborough car
ried his home county, Caroline and
Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot and Wor-
cester His majority on the returns in IS
over 500. Wicomico, where Robertson
lives, is out, but be hardly can get enough
there TO overcome Goldsborough's lead
and he may lose the county, according
to some estimate.
Election workers reported that many
of the voters were asking for the wet
ballot and the inquiry came from Re-
publicans and Democrats alike. Many
urged TO vote declined TO do so, declar-
ing that as the recent State General AS
sembly had failed to DO anything on the
liquor question, they would now do moth
ing for the politicians. However, one
set of delegates continued to promise
for with list headed by August Gerecht
the former police magistrate ID the Eastern
district, was a card stating that vote 70 r
this list insured a delegation TO the San,
Francisco convention that would sup
port only wet" Presidential candidate.
This was stamped as coming from the
headquarters of Governor Edwards. y
Still the voters wouldn't vote.