UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16857, 10 June 1920, Page 7

UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY.

♦ REPUBLICAN 1 NATIONAL CONVENTION. (By Cablo—Press Association—Copyri&lit.) (Reuter's Telegrams^ NEW YORK, June 8. Senator Hiram Johnson continues to be the favourite Republican nomination for President. Other possibilities include Mr Charles Evans Hughes, General Leonard Wood, Governor Lowden, of Illinois, Senators Philander C. Knox, M. Poindexter, Butler, and W. G.Harding. The Democrats will hold their Convention at San Francisco. . Mr McAdoo is an undeniable favourite, though. Mr Hoover may prove a dark horse. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received June 9th, 7.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, .June 8. • The Republican National Convention for the selection of a Presidential candidate, has opened at Chicago in unique circumstances, in that it is impossible to who is likely to be chosen, j Senator Hiram Johnson, Governor F. j O. Lowden, of Illinois, and General | Leonard Wood are "probables." Owing! to the absence of the party bosses, j which is due to a desire to place un- I restricted power in the delegates' hands to select their own nominees, the Con- | vention is apparently at a complete loss ! to make its selection. - j Senator Lodge, chairman of tho Convention, was loudly applauded when he; criticised President Wilson for proceed- j ■ ing to the Peace Conference he was unable to trust anyone else." j .Senator I«cdge denounced the Armenian mandadte- proposal and the Government's futile policy towards Mexico. .