The Washington herald., 1920-06-12
Lowden and Harding Carry.
OF Greatest Applause Of
All Candidates Presented.

AuCandldates Presented.
Coliseum, Chicago, June II.-Af-
ter four unsuccessful ballots had
been taken without a choice for
the Republican Presidential nomi-
nation being made the Republi-
can national convention ad-
journed at 7:Io tonight to meet
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
The voting in the first three
ballots ran relatively close to the
early predictions. Gen. Wood led
the large field Of candidates in
each of the four ballots cast.
Adjournment came only after q
fight among some OF the delegates
for an all-night session. After en-
during the nominating speeches and
demonstrations in the hot audi
torium, many of the leaders were
eager to go ahead with the bal
loting.
Fourteen thousand delegates and
spectators sweltered in the Coli
scum and heard the candidates put
in nomination in the first four
hours of Its session. The names
first presented were those of Mai.
Gen. Leonard Wood. Frank o.
Lowden and Senator Hiram John
son.
Lowden Cheered A Minutes.
Lowden received the greatest
ovation of the first three men. He
was cheered for AZ minutes, Wood
3S minutes, while Johnson's lasted
but 2S minutes. Charles S. Wheel
er, of San Francisco. made the
nominating speech for johnson and
encountered aggressive hostility
when he criticised the alleged n
nancial support of other candidates.
The crowd hissed and booed and
Wheeler was forced to stop several
times while order was being re-
stored.
With all the preliminary business
out of the way and the stage set
for the nominating speeches and
the first balloting on candidates,
the convention met at $3.50. The
sun came out blazing and hot, rails
ing the temperature of. the Coli
scum to an almost insufferable de-
gree.
After the prayer. J. Hampton
Moore. mayor of Philadelphia, Of
la.ef a.
regret of the convention over the
death of Theodore Roosevelt II
was adopted unanimously.
Governor Allen presented Woods.
case like a man engaged in a Wig
orous argument with an invisible
opponent. There vas enthusiasm in
his every gesture and he cut right
into the applause. not waiting for
IL to aubside in his eagerness TO tell
the delegates why Wood should be
the Republican nominee. He held
his glasses in his right hand, his
manuscript in his left and gesticu-
lated with both.
The first mention OF Gen. Woods
name PASSED almost Innoticed in the
text CT a letter prf,ising him. 1t was
menti oned br Allen twice more in
the next minute and each time there
was a burst of applause. each lit
tie louder than tho cne before.
some silent Amid Cheering.
AS Allen read RoosevGlt's praise
of Wood, cheering broke out and
continued until he motiCned for si-
lence. The cheering seemed to be
pretty we'll distributed among the
delegates. but IL did not involve all
of them. Many sat silent.
Tho perspiration streamed down
Aliens face. his voice grew husky.
but he became more enthusiastic as
he talked.
Allen clinched his glasses in his
fist. which he shook out over the
crowd as he pounded his points for
Wood.
Some object to HIM because of
his uniform" be Said. "Ah, ah, ah.
when did the Uniform become an
emblem of disqualification in this
country"
The delegates grew ncsier as AL.
len talked and it seemed as II most
pf the noise was coming from the
fioOr. Cries Of good" and a long
blast on a tin horn resulted when
Allen defended Wood against those
who called him e militaIist.
Wood, Allen said, dominated the
trouble labor situation at Gary,
Ind. with justice and brought back
to men their faith in government"
Allen was hot and perspiring.
There were cries for Wood" in
the rear of the Coliseum but Allen
forged right ahead.
As he told of how Wood was re-
llevcd from command of his divi-
sion On the eve of his sailing for
France a gust of cheer and a pat
ter of hand claLping swept across
the hall. and this time several OF
the rasal voiced hcrns honked in the
midst of it. 1t appeared that they
were scattered throughout the
crowd.
Governor Calvin Coolidga, of
Massachusetts,, was placed in NOM
ination by Speaker Gillett.
Up to the time the first three
candidates had been placed in NOM
ination the oratorical honors were
easily held by Mrs. Corrina Roose-
welt Robinson, who seconded the
nomination of Wood.
California Woman Speaks.
Mrs. Catherin p. Edison. of Cali
fornia, on behalf OF Johnson's own
state. seconded the senator's nomi-
nation. Clad all in white, Mrs. Ed
son, in a voice that shook a little
with nervousness at brst. told how
California had adopted woman sur
frage and passed progressive indus
trial legislation while johnson was
governor. She asked that Johnson
be nominated as a man who under
stands the great humanitarian