Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-06-12
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY q. GOULD LINCOLN.
CHICAGO. June 12.-Heat. hunger
and the leaders forced an adjournment
Of the republican national convention
last night. without a candidate for presi-
dent having been named
The convention had been in session
for nine sweltering hours. with no
chance to feed itself. The delegates
were intent upon getting through with
Their work. but some Of the leaders de-
sired recess to reform their lines. par
ticularly the men who are fighting for
q dark horse" probably Gov. Sproul OF
Pennsylvania
IL was In the main the field against
WOOD. with the leaders using Lowden as
siedgehammer to bump the general
When adjournment had been taken
nnally. after the delegates had twice
refused to quit. johnson and Lowden
| leaders both professed the belief that
wood 10 now out Of it" But there
seemed to be plenty of kick left In
the general and his friends. notwith-
standing
AS was expected. Gen. Wood took
me iead on the first ballot. He gained
steadily during the next three ballots.
| reaching final total of 314a votes
! 1t takes 4s3 to nominate.
LoWden made his greatest gain on
the second ballot and gained to q less
extent on the third. On the fourth
ne picked up only Z votes. The tally
| showed him 2891a votes at the close.
Johnson actually sustained a loss on
the fourth ballot. receding from 14s
| to 14Oh.
New combinations were suggested
Hoover's Ovation.
One Of the most remarkable events
OF the long day In the Coliseum was
the ovation given the nomination of
Herbert Hoover. It was confined al
most entirely to the galleries, and in
me volume OF noise compared very
eavorably with the demonstration of
the Wood and Lowden forces.
inc former food administrator has
pienty or friends. but no delegates AT
the close of the fourth ballot he had
oniv votes. though on an earlier
oallot votes were counted for him
Inc dark horses did not do very
WseH in the warming-np gallop.
sproui went as high as san on the
Pennsylvania. with her rs votes. was
al mat gave the governor a look-in.
Coolidge of Massachusetts,, another
governor. began to drop his strength,
some OF his delegates going to Wood,
as expected.
The name of La Toilette was pre-
sented each time the Wisconsin dele
cation was called, and the crowd
missed every time. The war record Of
the Wisconsin senator has not been
forgotten here.
johnson Leaders Mistake.
Inc johnson demonstration was
distinctly failure, as compared with
,nose previously staged by the fol-
lowers Of Gen. Wood and Gov Low.
den: The speaker nominating him, c.
y. wheeler. made the mistake Of at
tempting to cast reflections upon
Wood and Lowden, though without
using their names. When the crowd
came back at him he lost his head
ana MS temper. His speech dragged
out, and he was apparently without
terminal facilities.
Instead of nominating johnson.
wheeler wrote his epitaph," was the
comment OF one delegate. The John
resentative Schall Of Minnesota; as
one of his seconders
The best speech of the day was
made by Mrs. Douglas Roosevelt Rob-
inson.- sister Of the late Col. Theo-
core Honsevelt. who seconded Gen.
her famous brother and caught the
crowd INN ediately
FRANK Willis. one-time Governor of
ONO. made rafting good stump
speech in nominating Senator Harding
ana mad the audience with him.
The speakers continued while the
galleries and the convention buzzed
with conversation
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler of New
York was nominated by State SEN
ator Ogden Mills. chairman of the
republican platform advisory COM
were writing another platform, when
1T could be heard at all
Former Senator Marion Butler of
North Carolina struggled valiantly
but unsuccessfully against the noise
when he nominated Judge Pritchard
only one in the building who could
hear much of what he was saying.
Mayor J. Hampton Moore OF Phila-
delphia did not have much better
luck with his speech nominating Col.
Sproul.
HoOver's Nomination Surprise.
Judge Miller OF the New York dele
cation broke away from Butler to
nominate Herbert Hoover. The nomi- |
nation came as surprise, for it had |
been believed that Hoovers sup
porters would wait for a deadlock. |
Apparently they decided it was better
to let the convention see how their |
man stood with the crowds in the gal
leries. Judge Miller was long winded |
and finally one of the delegates
shouted: How did he run in Cali
formal" which caused some laughter
If Hoover got no delegates, his /
friends got plenty of tickets to the
galleries.
There was intense interest when the
balloting actually began. Cheers fire.
quently interrupted the call Of the
roll as this or that delegation voted |
for a favorite
Four Ballots without Result.
CHICAGO. June IL (by the Associ-
ated Press).-Four ballots in the re-
publican national convention yester-
day failed to unite the necessary ma
Jority on a nominee.
1t was the first time since 1888 that
more than three ballots found the
party without a choice, and the sew
enth time since the nomination of Lin
coin that more than one ballot had
been required.
The big three-Wood. Lowden and /
J ohnson-were at their high-water
marks when the convention, after the |,
fourth ballot. adjourned until 10
o'clock this morning.
The contest then stood: Wood 314k;
Lowden. 2S9: Johnson. 140h; Hoover.
s. Harding. 611a; Sproul. 79h: Cool
idge, IS; Butler. 20: Knox. 2: Poin-
dexter, Is; Sutherland. 8; Borah, / /,