Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-12
DELEGATES TIRE
OF SUPPORTING
'IMPOSSIBLES'
RumorS of Dark Horses Big
Feature of All-Night
Conferences.
LEADERS STAND FIRM

COLISEUM, Chicago, June 12.-For the
avowed purpose of nominating a ticket
and doing it quickly, the delegates to
the republican national convention wend-
ed their way early to the convention hall
today
They did not know whom they would
nominate either for president or vice
president, but they did know that the
breaking up Of the miniature deadlock
that existed Friday would come early,
perhaps on the first ballot, and they were
glad to see the end.
Not one of the three leaders-Wood,
Lowden or Johnson-would concede any
lost strength as a result of a night Of
pickering. but the general impression was
that all three were ont of the running un-
less the old guard succeeded in putting
over" Lowden on the first ballot today.
WOOD AND LoWDEN
FAILED TO GAIN
4 series OF all-night conferences. some
OF which did not end till a redhot dawn
broke over the lake front. failed to de-
velop anything definite so far could
be learned early today. Every conceivable
proposition, bearing on the Wood, Lowd-
en-. Johnson, Sproul and Harding candi-
dacies, we're broached by their support
ers during these overnight conferences
They resulted in a plethora Of rumors
and reports OF agreements, out Of which
II appeared that Lowden and Wood are
deadlocked in the lead, each still shy
than $50 votes.
Gen. Wood with 314I5 votes and Gov.
Lowden with 2s9 both failed 10 make
any material gains over night. 1t is un'
derstood, and IL was the generally ex
pressed opinion of party leaders today
that they will so to the post In t~day's
balloting with their situations relatively
unchanged.
As q result of this weakness mani
tested by both the leaders. the atten-
tion turned today more and more to
the runners s-up-particularly to Senator
Harding of Ohio, who quit the balloting
with 6th votes and Gov. Sproul Of Penn
sylvania. who had 1914 ballots when the
adjournment came.
Both men are reported to have been
o. K'd by Boies Penrose, the old guard
leader. who lies sick in Philadelphia
and who by private telephone wires
keeps in as close touch with the situa
tion rs though he were beside the plat
form.
Whether either Of these men can take
away sufficient strength from Wood and
Lowden. or from Hiram Johnson. with
his 14055 votes, remains TO be seen in
todays developments.
Senator Harding fled an eleventh hour
notice last night OF his candidacy for
the United States senate. This started
reports that the Ohio senator had viewed
the situation as hopeless and withdrawn
from the race. IL had been generally
understood that Senator Harding's with
drawal from the presidential race was
mandatory under Ohio law II he iled
/ for a senatorship
| This. however, was denied at Hard
| ing's headquarters and by the senator
/ himself
The situation is unchanged; I have
/ not withdrawn" he said.
| UNABLE TO MUSTER
/ EASTERN DELEGATES.
| New York with eighty eight votes,
| Pennsylvania with seventy-six and Ohio
with forty-eight. "uuld put over eiiher
Wood or Lowden f they could ba mus
! tered together. This however. is held
| 20 be an almos. hopeless ar rbitiDn. New
/ York is bady SIT, her Eighty eight
/ votes being divided among se,en can
/ . oates on the + rtb ballot.
Helen Varick Boswell, a New York del
/ egate who supported and seconded the
/ nomina ton Of Nicholas Murray Butler,
declared early today that all of New
| York's strength would be thrown behind
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