PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Southland Times, Issue 18848, 14 June 1920, Page 5

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. FIRST FOUR BALLOTS GENERAL WOOD LEADING. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable -Association.) WASHINGTON. June 11. (Received June 13, 0.0 p.m. l The presidential nominations of the Republican Convention are General Wood, Senator Johnson and Governor Lowden, of Illinois. There were wild scenes throughout. .Convention’s Hall is filled with turkey feathers as General Wood’s advertisement. There is the usual perspiring procession of hands and cheering and flag-waving lasting for hours. The first ballot showed that. General Wood was leading. Governor Lo'.vden being second and Senator Johnson third. The Convention is still balloting. The ballot figures are incomplete--Wood 303, Lowden 282. Johnson 148. The successful candidate requires 493. The fourth ballot resulted: —Wood 314. Lowden 289, Johnson 140. The final balloting will take place on Saturday. Additional nominations include Governor Coolidge, of Massachussetts; Mr Nicholas Murray Butler, of New York; Judge Pritchard, of North Carolina and Mr Herbert Hoover. Mr Hoover’s support is obviously small. An additional nomination was that of Governor Spoule. Senator Poindexter and other relatively unimportant candidates were nominated. The contest is expected really to involve Governor Lowden. General Wood and Senator Johnson. The latter is embarrassed by Mr W. R. Hcarst’s support. Suffragettes picketed the Republican Convention as they are dissatisfied with the suffrage plank adopted by the Republicans. Prominent suffragettes stated that unless ihe Republicans induce a thirty-sixth State to ratify the suffrage amendment they will trail the Republican, presidential nominee on his speaking tour, picketing every meeting. A SURPRISING RESULT. SENATOR HARDING NOMINATED. UNPRECEDENTED EXCITEMENT. NEW YORK, June 12. (Received June 13, 11.5 p.rn.i At the Chicago Convention Mr Warren G. Harding, a Senator from Ohio, secured the Republican nomination for the Presidency with 520 votes. The balloting was conducted amidst wild excitement unprecedented in the history of .American conventions. The city lay under a torrid heat wave, the delegates sitting in their shirt sleeves. Women seconded a number of nominations for the first time in history. There is much disappointment among de Valera’s supporters owing to the rejection from the Republican platform of any mention of Irish aspirations. The Labour party, comprising a section that has broken away from the American Federation of Labour, is meeting at Chicago. It is incensed at the endorsement of compulsory arbitration, and threatens to turn its full support to the Democrats.

THE BALLOTING. ALL RECORDS BEATEN. NEW YORK, June 12. (Received June 14, 1.0 a.m.l The balloting at Chic ago heat all records. The eighth ballot showed Wood 20!), Lowden 307, Harding 133. It was then generally conceded that Senator Harding was certain to win the nomination. He continued to gain in successive ballots. Governor Lowden and General Wood remaining almost unchanged in their positions. When Senator Harding’s selection appeared imminent, supporters of Senator Johnson attempted to induce him to accept the Vice-Presidency, for which Mr Coolidge later secured the Republican nomination. A SPLIT AVERTED. WASHINGTON, June in. Mr Root’s compromise, whereby approval is expressed of some general action for the future world’s peace and also of the Senate’s rejection of the Versailles Treaty, is believed to have averted a Republican split. A subcommittee unanimously agreed on a resolution to this effect. Senator Hodge's iid'uenee carried the day against the I .vague of Nations. LABOUR'S ATTITUDE. THE REPUBLICANS CONDEMNED. MONTREAL. June 12. (Received June 13, 11.40 p.m.i The American Federation of Labour meeting here unanimously condemned the Republican Convention as reactionary towards Labour’s legitimate claims. It was derided to present Labour’s ease to the Democratic Convention.