Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-29
PRESIDENTIAL RACE
ASITL LOOKS TODAY
Wood Has Most Instructed Dele
Z gates, With Johnson a
Close Second
PALMER LEADS DEMOCRATS

3 All the delegates to the Republican
national convention. which will assem-
bic at Chicago week from Tuesday
next, June 3, have been elected. In
some instances they have been elected
twice that is to say. contesting bodies
will present their claims before the Re
publican national committee. which Will
meet in Chicago during the coming
{ week, and from the rulings of this COM
mittee will be made up the convention
roll of 937 delegates, representing forty
eight states, four territories ana the
District of Columbia.
The contests are unusually numerous,
comprising no fewer than III. including
thirty five delegates instructed for Cen
eral Leonard Wood. who are opposed by
an equal number ''uninstructed the
p other eighty two being divided among
representatives of Governor Lowden
I and Senator johnson. With seventeen
from North Carolina. instructed for
Mr.. Pritchard of that state. and n
corresponding number uninstructed.
Fourteen of the fifty eight delegates
from Illinois are uninstructed. but con
trplled by Mayor Thompson. of Chicago.
the remainder, with one exception. VINO
is for johnson. being in Lowden camp:
A recent tabulation shows total Oh
153 delegates instructed for Wood. IN
Guiding those contested: T3 for Lowden;
11O for johnson 80 for Senator Hard
ing: IA for Senator Poindexter; 10 Tor
General John j. Pershing. Those com
prised in the lists for the three last
named are unchallenged, so far as
known.
The total number Of uninstructed
delegates is $50, these figures including
the districts where contests have been
announced.
Palmer Leads Democratic Roll
In the Democratic camp the contests
are not nearly as numerous as In tnat
of the Republicans. the only one Isted
SO far being from Georgia. where
twenty three delegates claimed tor AT
torpey General Palmer are challenged
BY an equal number representing a
/. faction of the party led by nited
States Senator Hoke Smith and Thomas
E Watson. The entire list of Demo-
cratic delegates has not been com
pleted. the national convention OF that
PARTY being scheduled to meet at San
Francisco on June %, twenty days after
the Republican convention.
OF the S66 Democratic delegates
already chosen, 61S are uninstruCted.
Presidential candidates who have in
structed support are Palmer, who leads
with 1O4 Qncluding Pennsylvania S 20
and Georgia's %, of whom 23 are sub,
jeet to dispute) Governor Cox oil
state and 20 from Kansas, total OF
IA; Governor Edwards, of New Jersey,
who has that states %, and former
Ambassador Gerard, for which South
Dakota instructed the 10 delegates.
n.rast,c DaH
A presidential poll" by postcard
that has been in progress for the last
several weeks, conducted by the
Literary Digest, of New York, is thus
summarized by that periodical in its
issue of this week
Z General Wood, Senator Johnson
and Mr.. Hoover stand head and
shoulders above all other candidates
practically every authority, from
the editorial stats of the country's
newspapers to the well informed man
ON the street" says the Digest. admits
that the poll is accurate in revealing the
three men named as the candidates
overwhelmingly preferred by the Ameri-
can people at large. The air is full OF
rnmors in Washington and in various
other headquarters throughout the
country that not one of these three men
will be permitted to go before the peo-
ple as the presidential nominee. The
experts and professional prophets are
often wrong, but this situation may
have points of lively interest to the
average citizen. who has the privilege
of voting for whoever is nominated. 1t
must be said at the same time, of
course, that none of these candidates
has anything like q majority of the total
Wood has less than third of the total,
johnson less than a fourth and Hoover
less than sixth.
It is pointed out that, contrary to
many predictions, Hoover continues, as
from the first, to draw almost as many
votes from Democratic as from Repub-
lican sources. despite his ayowcd Re
publican preferences. In declared
Democratic votes he leads the foremost
Democratic candidate, MCAdoO, by
nearly 5000, with total of 81 ,i45 as
against SO ,6l5 for McAdoo.
Considering the returns on the thirty
one leading candidates, 5l3, LA ballots
have been cast by declared Democratic
yoters. as against T45, ,5O6 by declared
Republicans. The total vote received
for these candidates is ,090, 131 TO Re
publicans and only 81 $40 to Demo
Gratis.
The Totals as They Stand
The Literary Digest sums up the total
vote polled for the leading candidates
In It's postcard canvass:
Republican-WOOd 21O,92S; John
son, $50 ,992 Hoover, 233 ,52S; Low
den, llS.2lO; Hughes, 53,5S7
Democratic-McAdoo, 9S, SOP; Presi-
dent Wilson, SO, 430; Edwards, 80,
500; Bryan. "A 800; Cox, 81 ,5S3.
Senator Arthur Capper, of Kansas,
says the Digest, continues TO show by
far the greatest strenth of the minor
candidates, not listed in the table, with
a total vote of 22 524. General Per
shing is next with l3, APO. Senator La
Toilette is credited with l0,25O, and
senator Knox has 4470. Senator Poin-
dexter follows with 1852, Nicholas
Murray Butler with $3.50, Senator Cum
Minis with 1892, and Governor Allen,
of Kansas, with 1868. Among the un-
listed Democrats, Senator Hitchcock has
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