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Show Stormy Democrat Convention H in Texas Finally Endorses Wilson's Conduct JH CHICAGO, May 26. Two orators H who will make nominating speeches at the Republican national convention had been announced today and tho ' others will be chosen by next week when the national committeemen as semble, according lo reports from Re- -M publican headquarters. Charles S. .M Wheeler, an alternate delegate from California-, haB been chosen to present the name of Senator Hiram W. John son. Former Governor Frank B. Wll-lis, Wll-lis, of Ohio, will nominate Senator i Warren G. Harding, of Ohio. It is ex- H pected that the nominating speeches will tako about ten hours on Thursday, June 10, tho third day of the conven- tfM Texas Calms Down. ' DALLAS, Tex., May 26 Texas i H Democratic politics which for months had ' been at boiling point over ques- ' Hons of endorsement or repudiation of the administration of Presidont Wll-son Wll-son and other national Issues, reverted today to state questions with the clos- lng of the state Democratic convon- H tion, which unanimously approved tho H actions of the Wilson admlnstratiqn. H Thirty-six delegates with ono vote IH each Including three women and six- J H teen delegates at large with one-fourth, j IH vote each, and of whom four are wo- men, were elected to represent Texas H at the national Democratic convention 91 at San Francisco Juno 28. These forty jjlH votes go uninstructcd, although the H convention adopted a resolution highly IH commending William G. McAdoo as a H presidential possibility. The delegates H will vote as a unit on all questions. IH Postmaster-General A. S. Burleson was IH elected as delegate from his homo 'H (tenth) district H The state's delegates were instruct- H ed to oppose any platform at San H Francisco which proposes any change H in tho present prohibition law. H Sutherland Leads VV. Va. H WHEELING, W. Va., May 26. Re- H turns from yesterday's state wide pri- H mary election in Virginia, being com- H piled here by the Intelligencer, showed H early today that Senator Howard Suth- H erland continued to lead Major-General Leonard Wood for the Republican H presidential preference. Only 443 pre- H cine Is out of' 1.8G0 in the state had been tabulated. The vote wds: H Wood, G.S41; Sutherland, 9,751; Wil- liam G. Webster, New York, -17. H No names were printed on the bal- lot for the Democratic presidential H preference and while voterB had the privilege of writing In the name of any H candidate they favored, not a single H vote for the offico was reported from the 4-13 precincts. H Dr. Randolph J, Horsey, campaign H manager for Senator Sutherland, is- II sued a statement in which he claimed JH the state for Sutherland by fifteen II thousand, basing it, he said, on returns !H he had received from rural and mining H districts, M |