The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-05-20
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
ONLY Is DAYS AWAY. S99
OF 9Si DELEGATES Al
READY ELECTED
MORE THAN HALF OF
DELEGATES UNRESTRICTED
GENERAL WOOD ON FACE
OF RETURNS HAS MOST
fST BALLOT STRENGTH,
JOHNSON OF CALIFOR-
MA FEARED BN CON
SERNATlNES

Chicago. May "a. With the repuh
,ican national convention only i
DAYS away and Sss of the 9Ss dele
gates already. elected the situation
facing the republican candidates is
that no candidate viii enter the con
vention with enough votes pledged "a
him to give any decided advantage
over his opponents,
Forty-seven OF the 50 states anf
territories have chosen their delega-
iions and are sending 10 Chicago 5s1
uninstrucied delegates, "a more than
a majority OF all those who viii SIT
In the convention.
Major General Leonard Wood. on
the face Of returns to date, will show
the most strength in the first bsllo.
for of those delegates who have be sn
Instructed or have expressed pre-
ference, 145 are pledged to him. In
addition he carried the presidential
primary in Vermont. but that state s
eight delegates have not yet beer
chosen by the state convention.
Woods nearest competitors in the
delegations already pledged, is Sena
tor Hiram Johnson of California.
who commands an even hundred
votes Governor Frank O. Lowden
OF Illinois. with 70 votes pledged 20
him. is third. while senator warron
G. Harding OF Ohio, has 80 votes from
his home state.
There are. however, contests pend
Ing in twelve states and the Distries
OF Columbia, involving l04 delegates
Thirty-fsy of the contests are on
Wood delegates. six on Lowden men
and e3 among uninstructed delega
tons. The credentials committee win
meet here May 81 10 thresh out these
contests.
Campaign managers al Chicago for
the various candidates agree that
there will be no nomination on the
first ballot. The complimentary vote
for the large list OF @favorite sons
may in fact. they say. be so large
that il will destroy the usual signific-
ance OF the first ballot as An ind.-
Gator OF the strength OF the various
candidate.
Among the candidates who are *
pected 10 divide the nninstruc.ed vote
on the first ballot In many cases com
manding all or part OF the delegates
from their home states. are Governor
Sproul, Pennsylvania: Governor Cool
sdge, Massachusetts, Senator sunder.
land, West Virginia; Senator Poln-
dexter. Washington: Senator La Fol-
lette, Wisconson. Or Nicholas Muir
ray Butler. New York: Herber,
Hoover. California. and Judge Pritcn-
ar North Carolina.
Senator Poindex'er has IA Instruct
ed votes from wa1hinpton: Judge
Pritchard seventeen from North Car.
olina: Governor Coolidge thirty three
from Massachusetts,. and the other
candidates have. or expect TO nave.
varying numbers.
Campaign managers hera OF three
candidates who are leading in dele
dates actually instructed have made
oeiinite claims as TO the vote the,
expect TO receive I'm the convention
Major General Woods headquarters
fas issued statement claiming he
VIII have 2s7 TO e02 votes on the first
ballot, that he will gain from tweiys
TO twenty on the second ballot. and
that he will be nominated on the
third or fourth.
The Johnson managers here sav
reports from their workers through
cut the country show they will have
80 votes on the first ballot and thai
the senator win be nominated on tie
third or fourth.
Governor Lowden's managers give
no estimate OF how many votes they
expect 10 have on the first ballot
fut In published statement have as
sared the governor he will win the
nomination with 522 votes. Thes
predict that. the break in his favor
will come after the third ballot