Evening star., 1936-04-12
Borah.Knox

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Many of the States district conven-
tions earlier had Endorsed or in
structed" for Landon.
If Senator Borah should surprise
the world and defeat Col Knox in the
Illinois primary, the Idaho Senator
would give the Republican politicians
something to think about. Despite
Borah's victory last Tuesday in the
Wisconsin primary, the Republican
leaders continued to discount his
chances of winning the nomination.
But if Borah should win in Illinois,
regarded as one of the pivotal States
in a presidential election, they might
have to revise their estimates. BY
the same token, Borah victory in
Illinois would pour bucket of cold
water on the Knox candidacy Knox
has with him the New Hampshire del
egation and is expected to have most
of the delegates from the other New
England States-he is Massachusetts,
man by birth. But if the primary
went against him in Illinois, Knox's
goose would be cooked
AS the Landon bandwagon is roll
ing now, it looks as though it could
not be stopped. Many of his sup
porters count the Kansas Governor
as a sure nominee for President
in Cleveland next June They do
not figure that Borah and Knox, the
two principal and open contenders
whom Landon faces in the race for
the nomination, can together control
enough delegates to tie up the con-
vention and thereby force the selec-
ton Of a compromise" candidate
say, Vandenberg of Michigan or Dick
inson of Iowa. They admit there will
be large bloc of "urinstructed" del
egates-they put in this class the
Ohio delegates, who may be instruct-
ed for favorite-son candidate, Rob-
ert A. Taft, son of the late Presi-
dent. But they do not expect these
uninstructed delegates to help tie
up the convention They expect them
to swing to Landon. New York,
Pennsylvania, Indiana and many of
the delegations from the Southern
States will be uninstructed.
sol Votes Necessary.
1t will take SOL delegate votes to
nominate presidential candidate in
the Republican National Convention
whose total membership will be 1,001.
The Republicans nominate by major
ity vote. The Landon followers say
they do not expect Landon to 90
across on the first ballot in the con-
vention-but they do expect him
to win on the second ballot. They
insist that Landon could be nominated
on the first ballot. but that it is be-
lieved to be the better policy not to
seek q first-ballot nomination, on
the theory that it might leave sores
among the Republicans supporting
other candidates. The Landonites, it
is said, and in this the Governor is
believed to concur, will not urge any
delegates to violate any pledges or
instructions on the first ballot.
The Landon candidacy has been
built up throughout the country judi
ciouSly, through newspaper publicity.
To the great mass of persons in many
parts Of the country, Landon is only
a name. He has been pictured as a
Calvin Coolidge of the West. He has
made two speeches. one in Topeka
and the other in Lincoln, Nebr. Other
wise he stuck to his knitting in Kan
sas. Many Republican leaders from
the East, the South and the North
have gone to Topeka to visit him.
They have come away satisfied with
the man and with his record. The
are this kind of cam
paign will be continued by Landon
until the opening of the Republican
convention. It is doubtful that he will
make any more speeches until after
the convention, although there has
been talk of an address to the Repub-
lican editors in Indiana.
Landon is entered in only two pri-
both without having given
his consent The first is in
California, where slate of Landon
delegate candidates has been put for
ward by Landon supporters, among
them William Randolph Hearst and
Gov. Merriam. It Is Landon against
the field there. for he runs against an
"uninstructed" slate of delegates,
backed by many groups of Repub-
licans and former President Hoover.
The other primary in which his name
is entered is that of New Jersey. It