Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-21
NO ONE TO ENTER
 6. 0.P. CONVENTION
 WITH WINNING VOTE
Scores of Contests to be Set tied on Opening
 Day

Chicago, May 20.--With the repub- lican national convention only eight cen days away and S99 of the 9S4 delegates already elected, the situa- tion facing the republican candidates 1 is that no man will enter the conven- ton with enough votes to give any decided advantage over his opponents Forty-seven of the fifty-three states and territories have chosen their dele gations and are sendig to Chicago 537 uninstructed delegates, forty-four more than majority of all those who will sit in the convention.
 Maj. General Leonard Wood, on the face of returns to date will show the most strength on the first ballot, .for of those delegates who have been instructed or who have expressed a preference 145 are pledged to him. In addition he carried the preferential primary in Vermont, but that state eight delegates have not yet been chosen by the state convention.
 Woods nearest competitor, in the delegations already pledged, is Sena- tor Hiram Johnson of California, who ommands an even hundred votes. Gov. Frank o. Lowden of Illinois with 7s votes pledged to him, is third, while Senator Warren J. Harding of Ohio, has 39 votes from his home state.
 There are, however, contests pend- 1 ing in twelve states and the District of Columbia, involving 104 delegates Thirty-five of the contests are on Wood delegates; six on Lowden men and 63 among uninstructed delegates. The credentials committee will met here May 31st to thresh out these con- tests.
 Campaign managers at Chicago for the various candidates agree that there will be no nomination on the first ballot. In fact they say it may be so large it will destroy the usual significance of the first ballot as an indicator of the strength of the va rious candidates.
 Among those candidates who are expected to divide the uninstructted vote on first ballot, commanding all ol part of the delegates from their home states, are Gov. Sproul, Pennsylvania Gov. Collidge, Massachusetts, Sena- tor Sunderland, West Virginia; Sena. tor Poindexter, Washington; Senator LaFollette, Wisconsin; Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, New York; Herber . Hoover, California, and Judge Pritch ard, North Carolina.
 Senator Poindexter has fourteen in
 structed votets from Washington
 Judge Pritchard seventeen from Nortl Carolina; Gov. Collidge thirtythre' from Massachusetts, and the othe candidates have or expect to have varying numbers.
 : Campaign managers here of tn three candidates who are leading il delegates actually instructed hay 3 definite claims as to the vote the g expect to receive in the convention = Maj. Gen. Woods headquarters ha : issued statement claiming he vii t have 297 to BOP votes on the frs
 ballot, that he will gain from 12 to ?
 on the second ballot, and that he vii
 be nominated on the third or fourt
 ballot.
 Q The Johnson managers here say re s ports from their workers throughou r the country show they will have 33
 votes on the first ballot and that tn
 senator will be nominated on the thir <. or fourth.
 Gov. Lowden's managers give no es ,. innate of how many votes they ex pect to have on the first ballot, bu
 in a published statement have assure,
 the governor he will win the nomina
 tion with 522 votes. They predict tn break in his favor will come after tn , third ballot