Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-06
WOOD HAS 9124
LEAD IN INDIANA
0uestion OF lnstructing Dele
gates for Him Now Botherine
@. o. p. Leaders
STATE CONVENTION TO ACT
BY the Associated Press

fndian8poiis, May 8.-Maior Cen.
esl Leonard Wood. with total of
i,Df4 votes, apparently Is assured of
plurality of almost II, 300 over Sen
pr Hiram W. Johnson. Of California.
VINO has ~ ,432. 90 the face Of unoffi
. c,al returns from 31S3 precincts out Of
1861 In Indiana in Tuesdays prcsiden
~. ~. preference primary election. The
<V4 missing precincts are in fourteen
Matered counties of the ninpty-twa in
tne state. Governor Frank q. I.owden
Z ot Illinois, with total Of ~ 6So votes.
continues In third place. while Senator
warren q. Harding, Of Ohio. is fourth
with 1928. ~
~ General Wood. on the face Of tho rc
X Turns. has carried nine Of the thirteen
gougressional districts in the state and
mas plurality in fifty three counties
( where unofficial reports are complete
Senator johnson won four congressional
oistrlcts ana twenty four counties Gov
ernor Lowden carried three counties nud
Senator Harding oncs Ohio county.
fourteen counties are in doubt.
Marion county Gndianapolisl com.
pIete, gave Wood . plurality over John.
son OF 1909, while lake county in the
talumet' region has given .Tohnson
plurality Of 594S over Wood in sew
enty one out Of ninety nine precincts
reporting: In Lake county johnson
~
The total of his three opponents.
Interest already has begun to shift,
from the primary 10 tho RppubIicap
state convention next Wednesday and
Thursday. The question of vh,thor
Indiana 5 twenty-si delegates 10 tho
national convention at Chicago shall 90
Instructed for General Wood because cf
his plurality or uniustructpd trnnsccnds
all other conversation now at the no
Hticol headquarters. The state Iav
provides that only n majority of the
votes cast is binding on the delegate tes.
William Grant Webster. of New York
candidate for the Republican nomina
ton for vice president was unopposed
IN the primary. The same was true Of
senator James r. Watson. RushviIlc
'Repubican), who is candidate for
denomination. aud former senator
Thomas Taggart. French Lick Demo
sraD. who also is a candidate for tho
United States Senate.
Warren T. McCray. Of KPntland. has
clear majority Of 2799 over his two
opponents in 3O4" precincts reported in
The Republican gtibernatorial contest
q The vote now stands: McCray. "a .SS3 /:
James W. Fesler. indianapolis, $3.50.
and Edward c. Toner, Anderson.
3S.515.
In the Democratic gubernatorial race
Or. Carlton Il. McCuIloch. Of Indian
apolis. has n big lead over his nearest
opponent on the face OF returns from
2350 precincts. but he still lacks ma
iority. Tho vote now stands: McCul-
loch. sc, ,S2I: Mason J. Niblack Vim
cennes, 1866: John Iscubarger. North
Manchester. 14.341, and James X. Risk
Lafayette, II, ,46G.
San Francisco. Calf. May 6.-(By
81 D.ta Al H.
presidential preference election today
had increased to 1876 500 the lead of the
Senator Hiram w. Johnson group of
delegates over the Herbert G. Hoover
ticket.
With all but Col Of the 1924 pre-
cincts in the state heard from the vote
stood:
For, johnson delegates. $50. .525: for
Hoover delegates, 1913 ,626.
a The returns were from fifty seven Of
the(fifty- eight counties in the state. The
Hqbver ticket continued to lead in Los
Angeles and two other smaller southern
talifornia counties.
Pueblo, Colo. May 6.-(By 4. p
The Republican state convention. to
name four delegates at large and alter
notes to the national convention AT
Chicago will convene here at o'clock
this afternoon. Many of the 939 dele
gates had arrived last night, filing the
Iccal hotels to capacity.
Kansas City, Mo-. May Cry 4.
P.t-The Republican state convention
reconvened here today prepared to rc-
ceive reports from ITS committee. perfect
permanent organization and proceed to
the transaction of business held up yes
terday while the committee on creden-
tials considered the claims of contesting
delegations from Jackson and Buchanan
counties.
I The program called for the election of
. delegates at large to the national con
veption, the naming of presidential
electors and the adoption of resolutions.
Under an arrangement agreed upon by
convention leaders two of eight dele
gates at large with one half a vote each
and two of eight alternates to be elected
will be wnmPn