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Show JOHNSON LEADS N NEBRASKA PRIMARY ! cQi 9 5 S O & : ' But Country Vote May Bring Up Commoner's Total Considerably WOOD IS SECOND AND PERSHING THIRD A. Mitchell Palmer Ahead in Results Totaled in Georgia 1 Election ! j OMAHA, Neb.. April 21. Senator j T-IIram Johnson continued to .maintain a lead as the ballots in Tuesday's pres- idential primary wero slowly being tallied tal-lied today. With '132 precincts out of 1S19 heard from he had polled 15,bl8 voles to 12,762 for Leonard Wood and 7300 for General John J. Pershing. The contest for delegate at large on the Democratic ticket furnished the most interest in Nebraska this morn-i morn-i mg. While one of William J. Bryan's delegates was running third in the field of eight, Bryan dropped back to seventh position when 408 precincts I had been counted. Political observers call attention to the fact, however, that while Bryan lost Douglas county he was running second outside of the county and the race promises to be I close. The vote of 40S precincts stood : Hitchcock delegates, Neville 1 2,252; Shallenberg 12.035; Neble 9819; Mc-Neny Mc-Neny 93SS; Dryan delegates, Stephens 10.0S5; Berg 9351; Bryan 9313; 'l nomas nom-as S559.' J , - Governor In Le5"d.' 1 " Governor.McKeh'ic continued to lead Adam McMuHeri in the Republican gubernatorial gu-bernatorial contest when 424 precincts iiad been heard from. The vote: Mc-Kelvio Mc-Kelvio 935S; McMullen S251. ! The Democratic raco for governor was not as close. With 404 precincts tabulated Moreland had 7309 and Clark, his nearest opponent, 3544. For national committeemen on ,the Republican eide, R. B. Howell led Mc-Cloud Mc-Cloud with 3B5 precincts heard from, 17.S84 to 12,637. Howell carried Douglas county (Omaha) by 579o votes with 145 precincts pre-cincts out of 1G8 heard from. Rnce To Be Close. Arthur Mullen is leading Thompson for Democratic national committeeman but this race likewise promises to be close as Mullen's lead was established in Douglas county while Thompson was leading in the state outside of Douglas. Few votes had been counted on the Republican delegate-at-large vote, but in the few that have been counted, the Wood delegates are leading, although nil of thorn, with one exception have pledged to vote for the preferential choice. Of the 145 precincts that have reported re-ported in Douglas county, Wood led by almost 300 votes over Johnson, with Pershing tihrd. McMullen carried Omaha over Mc-Kelvie Mc-Kelvie by 900 with the same number of precincts heard from, but the governor gov-ernor overcame this lead with a heavy v- c from out in the state. Moreland carried both the oulstate and the city or Omaha by about two to one over Selkirk, his nearest opponent. The returns are being gathered and compiled by the Nebraska election bureau, bu-reau, an organization of two Omaha and one Lincoln morning paper. RESULT IN GEORGIA. ATLANTA, Ga., April 21 Latest unofficial un-official returns from yesterday's Democratic Demo-cratic preference primary gave Attorney Attor-ney General A. Mitchell Palmer 48 counties with 140 votes in the state convention; Thomas E. Watson 50 counties with 120 votes, and Senator Hoke Smith, 42 counties with 100 voles. There are a total of 3S4 convention" votes in the 155 counties of tho state, laving 15 counties with 21 votes yet to be reported. I The Democratic state convention at which the delegates will vote will be held here May 28. ' oo |