The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1920-05-06
WOOD FINISHES
With LEAD OF
ALMOST 10000
Army Officer Increases His
Plurality as Late Farm Re-
turns Come in-Attention is
Turned to Convention.
INSTRUCT DELEGATION?
tRy Associated Press)

fBy Associated Press)
INDIANAPOLIS, May 6.-Major-
General Leonard Wood, with a total
of S1.574 votes, apparently is assured
of plurality of almost 10000 over
Senator Hiram w. Johnson, of Cali
| fornia, who has 72,432 on the face Of
| unofficial returns from 3,1S3 precincts
| out of 1887 in Indiana in Tuesdays
| presidential preference primary cleo
! ton. The 204 missing precincts are
, in IA scattered counties of the 80 in
| the state.
Governor Frank o. Lowden of Illi-
nois, with total of 36,6S2 votes, con-
tinues in third place. while Senator
Warren G. Harding of Ohio is fourth
| with 1926.
| General Wood, on the face of the re-
turns, has carried nine of the 13 con-
| gressional districts in the state and
has plurality in SO counties, whose
unofficial reports are complete. Sen
ator Johnson won four congressional
districts and "a counties.
| Governor Lowden carried three
counties and Senator Harding one,
/ Ohio county. Fourteen counties are
in doubt with the general leading in
| seven of them; the Californian in
|
ernor Lowden in two each.
Rolls it up in Marion
| Marion county Undianapolis) COM
plete gave Wood a plurality over
Johnson of 1909. while Lake county,
in the Calumet region, has given
| Johnson A plurality of 5e48 over
Wood in Il out of SO precincts report
ing. In Lake county Johnson has
polled more than 250 per cent more
votes than the total of his three op-
ponents and final returns are ex-
| pected on this basis to balance Woods
gain in the seven incomplete counties
in which he is now leading.
Interest already has begun to shift
| from the primary to the Republican
state convention next Wednesday and
Thursday. The question of whether
Indiana's &c delegates to the national
convention at Chicago shall be in
structed for General Wood because of
his plurality or uninstructed trans
i cends all other conversation now at
the political headquarters.
The state law provides that only
majority of the votes cast is binding
on the delegates and it is certain that
Wood cannot get a majority.
Warren T. McCray. of kentland,
two opponents in 3,043 precincts re-
ported in the Republican gubernatorial
contests. The vote now stands: Nc
Cray, 1883; James w. Fesler, Indi-
annapolis, $3.50, Edward c. Toner, An
derson. 1877. Mr. Fesler carried
Marion county, his home, by only 131
votes.
i Or. Mcculloch Easy Winner.
In the Democratic gubernatorial
race DR.. Carlton B. McCulloch of Indi-
annapolis, has a big lead over his near
est opponent on the face of returns
from $3.50 precincts, but he still lacks
a majority. The vote now stands: Nc
Culloch. 36,S27; Mason ]. Niblack, Vim.
| cennes, 1856; John Isenbarger. North
Manchester, 14,347; James X. Risk.
Lafayette. 11,466. Mr.. Risk is an
avowed prohibitionist and was given
the full support of William Jennings
Bryan during the primary campaign.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, May g.
Belated returns from Tuesdays preei-
Dental preference election early to-
day had increased to 156.ss9 the lead
of the Senator Hiram w. Johnson
group of delegates over the Herbert
C. Hoover ticket.
With all but 691 of the 5,724 pre-
cincts in the state heard from, the
vote stood: For Johnson delegates,
350,525; for Hoover delegates. 193,626.
The returns were from 81 of the So
counties in the state.
NEWHAVEN, Conn, May 6.-Con-
necticut Democrats assembled in
state convention here this morning to
name fourteen delegates to the ma
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The state central committee of the
party recommended yesterday that
, the delegation be uninstructed, but
J that it act as unit.
Homer S. Cummings, chairman of
the Democratic national committee,
: in his keynote speech last night, crit.
icized the Republican party for the
failure to ratify the peace treaty.
PUEBLO, Colo, May 6-The Repub
: lican state convention to name four
delegates at large and alternates to
the national convention at Chicago,
will convene here at 2 p. N. today.
Many of the 939 delegates had ar
rived last night. filling the local
hotels to capacity.
ALBANY. n Y, May 6-New York
states delegates and alternatives to
) the Democratic national convention at
San Francisco were gathered here to-
day for two days conference to be
opened tonight at the call of William
w. Farley. chairman of the Democratic
) state committee.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-. May 6tThe
Republican state convention recon
vened here today, prepared to receive
reports from its committee, perfecting
permanent organization and proceed
to the transaction of business held up
1 yesterday while the committee on Gre
3 dentials considered the claims OF con-
testing delegations from Jackson and
: Buchanan counties.