Milford chronicle., 1920-06-11
SPROUL WILL
Get BIG VOTE
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Second Ballot.
BETTING ODDS ON HIM DROP
Heads of Half a dozen State DeIega-
tions Visit the eovernor-Burke Re-
wives Knox Boom.

wives NupN DpOins
Chicago, June 10.-Delegations are
knocking at the door of Pennsylva-
/ mia.
After all night conferences, leaders
/ Of the boom of Governor Sproul for
the Republican presidential nomina-
ton said Sproul stock was soaring.
Indications Of the impression the
candidacy Of the Pennsylvania govern
or is making is the betting.
Odds of twenty to one were given on
the governor when his name as
presidential possibility first was
hroached. They have dropped five
to one.
Governor Sproul received heads Of
half a dozen state delegations at his
suite in the Blackstone Hotel before
he left for the Coliseum.
The governor was in a jovial mood.
Everything is going fine" hH said.
reports l receive are very encOur-
aging.'
Leaders of the SprOul campaign pre-
dict the real strength of the Pennsyl-
vanian will begin to develop on the
second ballot. A vote of at least 100
on the first ballot is confidently looked
for and it is expected to jump TO POO
on the second ballot.
Interests which leaned to the candi-
dacy of Samuel NJ Vauclain, president
of the Baldwin Locomotive Works,
have transferred their affections to
the Knox balloon.
The object is TO create the impress
sion the Pennsylvania delegation OF
seventy-slx is not solidly supporting
Governor SprOul.
Congressman James Francis Burke, /
Of Pittsburgh. heads a group of Pitts I
burgh men who are advocating Knox. !
Burke previously had pronounced (
benediction over the Knox boomlet,
bat he liberated a Knox smoke screen /
in front of the Sproul candidacy
Governor Spruul accompanied his .
wife and daughter to the convention /
haH and after escorting them to their
seats, took his chair at the head OF /
the Pennsylvania delegation.
The governor was warmly received .
by members of the delegations seated .
nearby. The governors sturdy figure
was a target of many hundreds OF
ewes. The governor was kept busy a
few minutes shaking hands. Samuel
NJ. Vauclain sat in the same row with
the governor, as he did the day pre-
vious
A swarm of delegates flocked about /
Governor Sproul as soon as the CON
vention adjourned. With Senator
Lodge permanent chairman, and VIII
Havs. chairman of the national com
mittee istcrestedly overlooking him a
few minutes, the governor held re-
ception.
The majority Of the Missouri dele
CATION walked past the governor, each
man shaking his hand.
"I want TO shake hands with the
man who will get my vote for the
said one of the represen-
tatives from the "shOw me" state.
As an awakener of curiosity Gov
ernor Sproul eclipses all other figures
on the floor. One Chicago newspaper
calls the governor "the handsomest
man in the Coliseum"
The feeling seems to grow thai
Sproul is going to start something and
scOuts of the other candidates have
their eyes riveted on the Pennsylva-
MIA delegation in anticipation of a
move that will start a demonstration
for the governor.
Governors of eleven states are sup
porting Sproul.
A host of influential men, represen-
tatives both of big business interests
and labor, are hacking him. There are
sufficient forces greasing his candi-
dacy to make the Pennsylvania Gov
ernor the most formidable candidate in
the field.
Vauclain formally swOre in for the
governor. Mr. Vauclain mas lost his
boom in the shuttle.