Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-05-14
news review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
State Preferential Primaries
Fail to Settle Presidential
Nominations.
WOOD HAS MOST DELEGATES
Johnson's Popular Vote the largest
Knox, Whose Peace Resolution Is
Up In Senate, Talked of as
Compromise Candidate
Poles Defeat BoIsheviki.
Bv EDWARD w. PIcKARp.

The state presidential primaries
have nearly all been held; the fever
ish race for delegates is about over
And now every one is free to guess
who will be the nominees of the ma
tional conventions, and there is not
much more to base guesses on than
there was before.
On the Republican side two devel-
opments stand out: Maj. Gen. Leon
ed delegates than any one else, and
Senator Hiram Johnson has been ac-
corded the largest popular vote. Run
ming a fairly strong third in both par
ticulars is Governor Lowden of Illi-
nois. But the deliberate plan Of the
party managers has been carried out
and no candidate will go to the Chi
cago convention with anywhere near
enough votes pledged to nominate.
The result in the Coliseum will be
brought about by skillful dickering,
unless the convention can be
stampeded, which is improbable.
The two most important primaries
| of the past week were in California
and Indiana. In the former johnson
won a sweeping victory, his majority
over Herbert Hoover, his only COM
petitor, being something like 10000
Mr.. Hoover expressed himself as sur
prised by the showing he made, con-
sidering the inadequacy of his cam
paign arrangements. His supporters
On the coast charged that deal was
made with the Phelan machine in San
Francisco to deliver the Democratic
vote to Johnson.
Indiana's primary law requires that
candidate must secure a majority
Of all votes cast in order to gain com
plete control Of the states delegation
This General Wood failed to do
though his plurality over johnson was
about 5000. Woods managers sale
they would insist that the state con
vention instruct the solid delegation
for the general but this aroused bit
ter opposition in the other camps. Or
the face of practically complete re
turns the Wood people claimed 20 O
the district delegates and the fou
delegates-at-large. The steel workers
In the Calumet region piled up biz
majority for Johnson and he also car
ried Evansville, but Wood won in In
1ianapolis and other cities. Lowdel
who was strong in the rural districts
got about half as many votes as John
son, and Harding about half as man.
as the Illinois governor. The result
In Indiana really were not satisfac
tory to any one of the candidates. bu
they quite suited the political mana
gers of the state, who plan to hav
Indiana hold the balance of power il
the convention.
Maryland Republicans turned GU
in small numbers and gave Wood tn
states preference by vote of abou
two to one over Johnson.
The johnson managers felt that tn
Michigan state convention did no
give the senator the full fruits of hi
victory in the primary. 1t instructe
the delegation to vote for him as Ion
as he has a chance of winning tn
nomination. but refused ironclad il
, structions, leaving it to the delegate
to decide when to switch to anothe
candidate. Of the big four elected
: two are Johnson men and two ar
said to favor Wood.