New-York tribune., 1920-03-25
Wood Carries
North Dakota,
Returns Show
Generate Manager Claims
8,Il2 Majority Over the
Johnson Slate, Which Was
Supported by Townley
Has 58 Pledged Votes
End Of the Present Week
Will See 100 Instructed
Delegates, 1t Is Asserted

General Wood won in the North Da
.ots primaries, on March 16, agains
senator Hiram w. Johnson, who wa
supported by the Nonpartisan Leagus
Colonel William c. Proctor, chairma
of the Wood National Campaign Con
mittee. telegraphed from Chicago yes
t.rday that Wood would have at leas
sieht of the ten delegates from Mort
Dskota. 1t was quite generally be
i;eved that Senator Johnson had woi
there because of his having been sup
A.rted by the Townley organization
The final result from North Dakots
was delayed because of a blizzard
which made it impossible to get tn,
returns from the various sections .
the state. The telegram from the Chi
csro headquarters follows:
"Colonel Proctor to-day lays CLAIM
to the ten delegates from North Da-
kota. Not only does he claim then
showing that the regular Republican
delegation of the state defeated the
Johnson slate by majority of SIP
votes, with FIVE districts missing. Eight
Of the ten members of the regular Re-
publican delegation are supporting
Wood"
5S Now Pledged to Wood
The victory in North Dakota gives
the Wood men at least SO instructed
or pledged delegates. This total in
cudes 10 from Minnesota, positively
instructed for Wood, but does not in
clude ii more from that state unin-
s:ructed, but practically certain to be
L
every county of the state. The list is
as follows:
Arizona, 6; Minnesota, 10: New
homa, g; South Dakota, ION Tennessee
20; Philippines, ,. Total, SO. Com
menting or the progress of the Wood
Campaign, Colonel Proctor, in Chicago,
said yesterdays:
"By the end of the present wee
General Wood will show we'll over 1O0
delegates elected for him either un-
der instructions or by affirmative dec
laration Of the delegates themselves -
Reports from Maine yesterday indi-
Gated that the state convention at
Bangor to-day will name IL unin-
strueted delegates. following which q
resolution indorsing General Wood
will be offered and probably adopted
Z. c. Doheny. head OF the Mexican
Petroleum Company, whose name was
listed by the leading Hoover organ as
a contributor to the Wood campaign
fund, issued statement in Los
Angeles yesterday denying that he had
ever contributed one cent for the pro-
motion of General Woods political in
terests.
Woods Speaking Dates
General Wood is scheduled to speak
today noon at Flint, Mich, and to-
night in Saginaw. Tomorrow noon he
will speak at Pontiac and at night in
Bay City. Saturday noon he will speak
AI'a and at night at Muskegon. He
will leturn to Chicago Sunday and
resume campaigning in Michigan on
Manda! The Michigan primaries will
take place April 5.
Alexandria Carlisle, of Cambridge,
Mass, wired The Tribune last night
that her name had been placed on the
ballot of the 9th Congressional District
and that she is the only woman run
ming for delegates in the Republican
party in Massachusetts.
Enited States Senator Joseph ".
Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, yester-
day fled his petition to be one of the
Republican big four in the Chicago
convention. The Senator says in his
petition: II will support New Jerseys
choice as expressed in the primarie :"
complete General Wood ticket Of
delegates was filed with the New Jersey
Secretary of State yesterday for the
oth Congressional District