The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-19
PRIMARY CHOICE {
OvERTHROWN BY
PARTY MACHINES
Georgia Democrats in Conyen.
tion Defeat Palmer.
Pennsylvania Republicans De-
eide Against Gen. Wood.
MICHIGAN MAY DROP HOOVER
Delegates Pledged by Primary
Unpledged by Convention.
One Republican and Three
Democratic COnclayes Today.
Georgia Democrats in COnyen.
ton Defeat Palmer.
Pennsylvania Republicans De-
eide Against Gen. Wood.
MICHIGAN MAY DROP HOOVER
BY HAROLD d. JACoBs.

New York, May 19-while Repub-
licans were still trying TO determine
Just what happened in yesterdays
Pennsylvania primary. Democrats
We're holding three important state
conventions today.
The most interesting was in Michi-
gan. Democrats of that state gave
herbert Hoover a plurality in a pref
erental primary early last month.
hoover has since repudiated the
democratic party, but the thirty dele-
gates have been credited to him new
ertheless. giving him second place
among Democratic candidates on the
basis of instructed delegates
Undo Work of Primary.
Today's convention was expected to
undo the work of the primary so far
as Hoover is concerned, William G.
McAdoo was second in the preferen-
tial vote but the growing boom of Cow
ernor Cox of Ohio has it's home in an
adjacent state and was believed 10 have
an important bearing on the action OF
the convention.
politicians also were watching the
convention in Indiana. as they fore
saw launching there OF definite
drive against the candidacy of VIII
liam G. McAdoo.
Virginia Strong for McAdoo.
Virginia. believed to be a strong
McAdoo state, was choosing twenty-
1our delegates at a convention TODAY.
The sole Republican activity today
was state convention in Alabama
where fourteen delegates were to be
selected
The situation in PENNSYLVANIA. fol-
lowing yesterdays Republican pri-
mary, was as obscure as anticfpated
Lack of a real preferential vote made
n appear certain the states second
cholce candidate would not be known
positively until the balloting started at
IChfcago. Governor Sproul is expected
| to be first choice of the rs delegates.
AS result of the Democratic pri-
mary, Pennsylvania's seventy-six dele
gates are expected to support Attorney
General Palmer. "favorite SON"
Pennsylvania Machine Wins.
Philadelphia. May le.-Returns
from yesterdays primary election for
all parties in Pennsylvania were still
incomplete early today. but sufficient
figures were received that tended to
| show all but one of the twelve slated
candidates of the regular Republican
state organiza ton for delegates at
large leading.
Those on the regular slate were
United States Senators Penrose and
Knox, Gov. W. c. Sproul. Mayor Bah
cock of Pittsburgh. and Mayor Moore
| of Philadelphia: State Attorney Gen
eral W. /. Schaffer, w w. Atterbury.
James Elverson. tr.. Percy M. Chan
dler. Andrew w. Mellon. Asher Miner
and ]. Leonard Replogle.
| The regular state organization
claimed the election of nearly all lis
sixty-four delegates Presidential
| preferences did not figure directly in
| the voting for delegates at large, the
| contests being largely to settle fac
| tional differences and personnel OF the
| delegation. While the election laws
! provided for preferential primary.
only one name. that OF f. r. Wood
q retired Philadelphia business man,
appeared on the Republican ballot and
received a light vote. There were
scattering votes for other Candidates
written on the ballot.
! Palmer leads Democrats.
| Attorney General A. Mitchell Pal
Iner was the only candidate for pre- si-
dent whose name appeared on the
| Democratic preferential ballot. AT the
eleventh hour in the campaign the
Bonniwell faction urged it's followers
| to write in the name of VIM. G. Nc
Adoo on the ballot and a considera Bile
number Of Democrats followed the
suggestion.
! On the returns so far received the
/ Palmer leaders claimed that virtually
all OF their seventy-six national dele
| gates were successful and that their
| entire state ticket was nominated.
| They also claimed that the Democrats
/
| by Mr.. Palmer and his friends
| Vermont Goes to Wood.
| Montpelier Vt. May 19-Incom-
plete returns early today from Ver-
/ Inonts presidential preference primary
Yesterday gave Mai Gen. Leonard
/ Wood approximately 20 per cent OF
| the Republican vote. the total of
which was about one-twentieth Of
normal. The Democratic vote was
negligible.
| Senator Hiram wv Johnson. Ca1ifor-
mia. and Herbert G. Hoover were I'm a
close race for second place on the Re-
publican ballot. Gov. Calvin Coolidge
of Massachusetts and William Grant
Webster. an attorney Of New York,
were contesting the next position.
General Wood ran better in the coun-
try towns than in the cities. His name
and Webster's were the only ones
printed on the Republican ballot and
cratic ticket. The result OF the ballot
ing is not binding on the delegates 70
the party national conventions.
/ Indiana Democrats Meet.
/ indianapolis. May ls-Democratie
TODAY preparatory to an advance on
the fall elections.
Party chiefs from all parts of the
state assembled for the state conven-
4 ton which was to elect delegates to
the national convention.
Michigan Demos Stand Pat.
Grand Rapids. Mich. May 19.-Ths
dominant note in the Michigan Dem
ocratic convention here today to elect
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