New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-07
Wood Leaders
Take Michigan
Defeat as Jolt
Everything Broke Right
for Johnson" They Saw.
Admitting the Senator
is Serious Contender
Will Work All Harder.
Californian. Jubilant Over
His Victory. Voice $
"Overfiowing Gratitude"

''Overhowing Gratitude"
A. the Leonard Wood Eastern cam
paiSn headquarters yesterday the
primary election IN Michigan on Mon
day wss accepted as a setback for the
Wood forces and no effort was made 10
bel,ttie me Johnson victory
Everything broke right for Senator
johnson. was the way one of the Wood
Neutanants put K IN the absence OF
Representative Norman j. Gould and
Colonel Thomas " Miller. the East
ern m-Gagers. First of all, was the
Newberry conviction on account OF
Illegal campa gn expenditures Public
sentiment all over Michigan was ready
- rehuke lavish money spending in
campais ns.
Senators Johnson and Borah told
The people n all the large towns that
General Wood 5 campal gn was being
run en- money. and many OF them ap-
parently believed il and voted accord
ineiy Next was the weather. which
blocked the country roads in the viii
LACE and farming sections of the state,
bu. id not materially deter voters in
Detroit.
viii Work Harder
Then again. Michigan has felt IL
censed for long time over the way
in which Michigan soldiers were al
lowed TO remain in Siberia while other
troops returned home. Senator J Ohm
son capitalized this and made the vot-
ers think that he and he alone IS the
soldiers friend
We are not kicking. We got
thrash;Dg. II Johnson had lost he
would have oeen out Of the race. If
re can beat Hoover IN California as
soundly as he defeated his opponents
in Michigan he viii be lively con-
tender al Chicago: but after all IS said
and done General Wood is the leading
candidate with nearly 200 votes either
instructed. pledged or IN sight Inc
= pod men VIII work all the harder
Ire Mood headquarters received a
telegram from Chicago telling Of a
mock national convention or Monday
night a the Chicago Yale Club, at
which General Wood was nominated,
with 142 votes out OF the $50 cast.
Hoover was next. with IS; Lowden
third, with 81, and Harding fourth, with
5. The convention was held in regular
nent chairman. Henry S. Hooker nom
mated General Wood Lowden was
nominated by Charles H. Hammill.
Hoover was nominated by Robert Taft,
3 son OF former President Taft. Hard
ing was nominated by Dudley :. Bios
som
Mrs. Elizabeth Carr. Of Indiana.
president OF the War Mothers Of
America. yesterday came out for Wood
II the following statement: Il an for
General Wood because he IS military
man He viii prepare for peace by
putting our nation in such state Of
Is
see me sign Hands off, and govern
itself accordingly.
Being a soldier. he viii understand
the needs OF the soldier and be able to
enter sympathetically into the prob
lens which confront ex-service men
ard their families at this critical
me"
Johnson Is Jubilant
Perhaps the most jubilant politician
IL Old New York yesterday was Senator
Hiram " Johnson, Of California Ii
was the opinion OF politicians generally
mat the Johnson victory IN Mich gar
makes the California Senator for
nidable contender FOR the Republican
domination a the Chicago convention
although MS string CT instructed dele
gates is limited for the time 20 me
thirty from Michigan.
Il IS : marvellous victory" SAID Sen
a-or Johnson a the Hotel Belmont
yesterday afternoon. before leaving fol
Trenton. where ne spoke last night
4 am more tnan grateful 70 the gooc
reop.e o. Mich gan. We met there
as II other places, organized politics
and organized exploited wealth IT
polrics, and we nave demonstrated that
ar American. with no other attributes
.naa -nose Cod gave him. car meet the
Z -.r1
toned % conrrc. politics and win be
FORE trse people.
The Michigan agh- was the first rea
est o. popular strength. We have Woi
there overwhelming l am simpl.
oTerTowing with gratitude to the PEG
PIE Of that great com monwealtn.
! regret very much that there IS
preferential primary III SO few states
shall DO ali can from this time for
ward . make the preferential primar,
applicable II all the states OF n
lnlol. Nv experience in the Mime
so-a and South Dakota primaries con
Tlaces ne that the preferential prlrar
q g-ea-.y needed there and in fac
everywhere throughout the country.
Angus McSween, Eastern manager o.
Tt Johnson campaig On, said:
The Michigan primary shows th'
baEeless exaggeration Of the sta rement'
MADE - the Y God and other managers
~ are confident that wherever there
Z A. opportunity for the people 70 ex
pres Themselves the results Will be tn
sane
Our iavessig atoms show that there
IS 70 more bass for me claims made
70 New Jersey, Indiana, Nebraska anc
al tae otner primary states than there
Wa tor me III justified assertions mace
respecting me Wood and Lowden sentl