The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-05
LAND0N LEADS
F0RV0TESIN
PRIMARIES
Favorite Sons to Run
One Ballot; Hoover
Active in South
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES
International News Service


The Republican National Con-
vention opens in Cleveland five
weeks from today with Gov. ALI M.
Landon's chances for nomination
on an early ballot growing In
creasingly brighter.
More than 100 of the thousand
delegates are being selected this
week, and the expectation Of politi-
cal observers Is that the Kansas
governor will eventually fall heir
to q considerable portion Of them.
Maryland selected delegates to
the State convention yesterday,
who probably will be instructed to
support Gov. Harry w. Nice on the
first ballot and then take stock Of
the situation. The Marylanders,
however, concede their governor
has no chance for the presidential
nomination, and there Is a strong
disposition to switch to .L,andon
after the complimentary vote for
Nice. Friends Of the Maryland
executive are really shooting at the
vice presidential nomination for
him.
Four Holding Primary
Four States are today selecting
% delegates in primary elections.
California Is electing a, Indiana
20, Alabama Is. and South Dakota
eight.
Landon supporters claim both
California and Indiana support
for the KanSan at an early stage
in the balloting. There Is q keen
contest in California, however, be-
tween an out-and-out Landon slate
and q slate Of uninStructed dele
gates that the friends Of Herbert
Hoover are credited with control.
ling. Whichever slate is selected,
however, the Landon forces believe
eventually CALIFORNIA; A will be
tailed in the Landon column.
In South Dakota, Senator Will
liam E. Borah'S name alone ap.
pears on the ballot. and the ex.
pectation Is that he will have those
eight delegates as far as he goes.
Landon Is understood to be the
secondary choice Of the South
DakotanS.
There Is considerable curiosity
in political quarters over vino will
show up at Cleveland in control
Of the Alabama and other South
ern delegations. Republican or
ganiZation in the States Of the
deep South has been almost non
existent since the Democratic land
slide Of 1892, and nobody processes
to know where the SouthernerS
are going. II they follow the prece-
dent Of other years, they probably
will leap for the nearest band
wagon, which at this moment ap-
pears to be Landon's.
Hoover Il Active
It has been reported recently,
however, that friends Of Ex.Presi-
dent Hoover have been active in
the South. rounding up the organl.
cation leaders to 60 to Cleveland
and be guided by his wishes. Most
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South States will be former office
holders in the Coolidge and Hoover
administrations. They have had
lean days since 1882.
On the Democratic side. what
opposition there promised to be to
President RooSevelt's nomination
Is steadily fading out. Col. Henry
Breckinridge's protest" candidacy
was showed under in Pennsylvania
by about Is to l. In Maryland
yesterday, the colonel was buried
by about 6 to /.
If the Breckenridge candidacy
could do no better than that in
Maryland, long cool to the New
Deal and still, to some extent,
under the influence Of the late Al
bert c. Ritchie's hostility to it,
then political observers were
agreed that it won't cut much ice
anywhere.
Elenere Meherin. beloved author Of