The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-06-23
BEGINNING WITH THE FIFTH
BALLOT VICTORY is GAINED
BY OHIO SENATOR ON
TENTH BALLOT
L0WCEN AND WOOD
LOSE IN LANDSLIDE
Senator Harding Entered Convention
Four Days Ago AS A Candidate
Distinctly Of The Dark
Horse Glass.

GHICAGO.-Warren G. Harding,
~ United States senator from Ohio
was nominated for the presidency by
the Republican national convention,
which lasted for nine ballots and gen
erally forced out of the running all
the original favorites.
AS his running mate the convention
named Gov. Calvin Coolidge of Mas
sachusetts, upsetting plan of COM
bination of the Harding hackers to
nominate for the place Senator IT.
vine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin.
The collapse of the force of Frank
o. Lowden and their transfer in large
part to Harding put the Ohio candi-
date over.
General Wood lost heavily, however,
when the Harding drift began, and
Senator Johnson, the third of the trio
OF leaders on the early balloting, also
went steadily down hill.
OF Dark Horse Glass
Entering the convention four days
ago as candidate distinctly of the
dark horse class. Senator Harding
got only 81 votes on the first ballot,
and on the second he dropped to Sc.
When the convention adjourned at the
end of the fourth ballot he had 81.
In all night conferences among the
party chiefs, however, he was men
toned many times as the most likely
to break the nomination deadlock
should neither Wood, Lowden nor
Johnson take commanding lead. All
failed to do SO, Wood and Lowden run
ming a neck-and-neck race for leader
ship on four more ballots, while the
strength of the California candidate
dwindled steadily.
Meantime, Harding pushed his total
to 1873, individual delegates from many
states swinging to him from the col
umns of the leaders and of various ia
vorite sons. The Johnson managers.
fearing landslide was impending,
then made test play to save the for
tunes of their candidate. They moved
to recess for couple of hours in order
to take an inventory and seek new
combination. The Wood and Lowden
forces, both virtually at the peak of
their strength, but both disheartened
at the long string of ballots without
material gains, agreed to the recess
plan and the convention adopted it.
In the dramatic succession of confer
ences that followed the fate of the
candidates virtually was sealed. Some
of the Wood and Lowden managers
tried Intellectually for an agreement
which would hold their delegates in
line and kill off the Harding boom.
Some tried to gete a Wood -Lowden-
Johnson agreement to adjourn until
the 14th without making a nomina.
ton.
lowden Releases Delegates
1t was the parleys between the Har-
ding and Lowden men, however, which
apparently bore the most fruit when
the balloting began again, Governor
Lowden came to the convention dur
ing the ninth roll call, and, reversing
previous plan to go before the con-
vention itself, issued instructions from
behind the scenes, releasing his in
structed delegates. Senator Harding
also was in the rear of the Coliseum
platform during the voting and con-
ferred with Chairman Hays.
AS the tenth roll call began dele
gates quit Lowden, Wood and johnson
right and left, and the big hall was
in almost continuous applause as state
after state announced accession to the
Harding standard. 1t was reserved
for Pennsylvania to add the browning
touch of enthusiasm. When the Key
stone State was reported the Ohio SEN
Mexic Mission Is Coming To U. S.
Washington.-Reports have reached
the state department through unof.
fetal channels that the new Mexican
government is about to send to the
United States a mission to discuss
the relations between the two coun
tries in an entirely informal way. Mig
uel Covorubias, the dean of Mexican
diplomats, and Fernando Igelsias Cal
deron, a historian of note, are men
toned as heading the mission.
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