The Washington times., 1920-04-13
ALL POLITICAL EYES
TURNED ON ILLINOIS
Result Of Primary Today Will
Have Important Bearing on
G. o. p. Candidates..
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS,
UsteraationsI News servtce.)

tistern~uonsi News SesvseeD
Within the next two weeks more |
than half the delegates TO the ma
tional conventions. Democratic and
Republican, will have been chosen,
yet political Headquarters here con-
fess they are more sea than at any
time since the campaign began.
Campaign Chaotic.
A month ago, they say, national
politics seemed TO have a kind OF
trend" Now. party leaders bemoan.
there is only chaos. Herbert Hoover
played bull in the Republican china
shop. and In the havoc he was more
than a little helped by the lighting
Westerners. Hiram Johnson and Will
liam f. Borah, with their charges OF
too much money spent
At the same time Attorney General
Palmer raised the cry that enemies
Of the President within the Demo-
cratic party were attempting to gain
control OF the San Francisco Conyen-
tion to repudiate the Administration
there.
Thus faction fighting inside both
parties has grown so acute that the
outcome is more doubtful now eight
weeks before the opening OF the con-
vention season. than 1t was last
Christmas.
All Eyes On Illinois.
All eyes are now on Illinois. To-
day a total OF 116 delegates--hfty-
eight Democratic and fifty-eights Re-
publican-will be chosen in the Pres
idential primaries In that State.
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to careful opinion will sweep the
state, and were 1t not that politicians
hope to learn something from the
showing made by the aiso-rans. the
Illinois race would be devoid OF ex-
citement. :,
A recent poll taken among the edi-
tors of daily newspapers throughout
the State. showed the following re-
suits:
Thirty editors. OF all shades Of po-
litical opinion. responded. or these,
twenty mine gave II as their oeneI
that Governor Lowden would be. the
arst choice of the State. The thirtieth
editor voted blank. -Four of them not
only voted for Lowden as their hrst
choice candidate, but as their second
and third as well. Ia
GER. Leonard Wood ran second with
twenty-one votes as second rchoice
candidate and Senator warren u
Harding, third, with three second
choice votes to his credit. Tne iat'er
receiving, however. eight -vons
third choice against Generai "oo'
two. -g.g a..-o
Taft and Poindexter received stray
votes as second or third choice NOM
inees.
Mr.. McAdoo Leads Democrats-
Tn the Democratic column William
G.. McAdoo ran first, with totai Oh
eight votes, four of these being as
the hrst choice, and four as second
covernor Edward I. Edwards. OF New
Jersey. came second. with seven Votes;
four as first and three as thiru
choice. Attorney General Paiher ran
third. with five votes: Presioen' VIZ W..
son and Herbert Hoover lour'n, W.
tour votes each, while Bryan cover
nor Cox, Champ Clark ana >ioe
dent Marshal trailed.
Immediately after the ABOVE strM
vote was taken, however, two thihss
so.e ,nad. Hoover spurned the
lDemocratic party in favor OF the W.
n ana Senators Johnson ana borah
threw their bombs filled with accuse
tions against the Wood. Lowoeh anu
other campaign managers spehu'"s
| too much money ,,e,ence To-
days voting. , ,.,.ootes of
hoth narties have already been Sc
Iected, By April 27. two weeks iron
todav the fourth will have become
one.half. The Republicans VIII nav
oho.n, A5s out of the 9S4 delegates
- will he present at Chicago, whlie
the Democrats will have selected oto
or the total of 1,092 officially compos'
Ing the San Francisco delegation.
| beginning with llihois touas'
Georgia, Nebraska, Missouri Kansas,
Montana. Massachusetts,, New Jersey
nd Ohio will hold conventions or
nrimaries within the next two weeks.
| The outcome of the Democratic
nrimaries in Georgia will be or un-
nsual interest, for the reason that IL
| was in that state that the eHort OF
tho Presidents enemies to gain con-
troll of the San Francisco convention
as charged by Palmer. seemed TO cen
ter. IL not originate The Attorney
General has just returned to Wash-
ington after making several speeches
in Georgia against senator Hoke
Smith, leader of the anti-adminstra-
tion Democrats in that part OF the
| country. 1t is, therefore, felt here
that the outcome Of the primaries
will be significant.
ohio Is considered one of the doubt
rul States. and a great fight Is on
there.
Politicians are vaguely hoping the
next fortnight will throw little
light on the situation. They admit
all Is darkness and uncertainty now.
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