Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-04-14 | Page 5 | Wood Holds Lead, despite Result in Illinois

WOOD HOLDS HOLP LEAD I DESPITE RESULT IN ILLINOIS I Instructed Delegations Are Art i Small Part of Total Vote However Harold D. D Jacobs United Pre Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK TORK April 14 H. Despite Frank FrankO O. O Lowden's victory in the Illinois primary mary Major General Leonard Wood apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap continued d to lead today In the theraCe therace therace race for th the Republican presidential nomination Assuming that thirty-five thirty of S nUno delegates will vote for Lowden fourteen for Wood and one for Cor or Senator Hiram Johnson the standing on instructed dele delegates gates today would be I Wood 61 Lowden 47 Johnson 41 Eight additional delegates will be chosen in Illinois ls at the state convention later On the basis of claims of support of ed delegates delegates figuring figuring that Hansas' Hansas Kansas Kansas' Kansas Kansas' Kan Han sas' sas twenty would go to Wood and Wisconsin's Wis Wis- twenty twenty six six to Johnson after atter the early ballots for Governor Henry Allen and Senator Robert M. M Lafollette re respectively re- re the the standing would be e Wood Lowden Nicholas Murray Mur Murray ray Butler of ot New York 88 Johnson 67 Judge J. J C. C Pritchard of at North Carolina 22 JO JOHNSON JOINSON VOTE SURPRISING To political observers the real surprise of ot the Illinois Republican primary was the for large number of In written ballots Johnson Joonson The only names printed on the ballots were those of Lowden and Wood but Incomplete returns returns' showed that Johnson who had made no campaign in I Illinois had polled about votes At Johnsons Johnson's Eastern heal headquarters quarters here yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- it was stated he might possibly get written in ballots The name of Herbert Herbert- Hoover also was written Inon in inon inon on some Republican ballots None of ot the Democratic candidates was entered in the Illinois primary and that states state's fifty-eight fifty delegates Joined the already large number of uninstructed delegations TENNESSEE MEETING Tennessee Republicans were holding a a. state convention In Chattanooga There Ther were twenty delegates at stake there of ot which the Wood organization claims at least six went t to the convention convention conven conven- tion pledged to him The rhe he next primaries are those of NebraSka Nebraska Nebraska Ne Ne- braska bra and Georgia which will be held April 20 Supporters Support rs or Gen General ral John J J. Pershing claim he will wili win the Nebraska Republican n Indorsement Johnson Is now campaigning there The Hoover for tor or President President President Pres Pres- ident union recently formed there as a nonpartisan organization has announced plans for circulating petitions to obtain signatures of men and women pledging their votes to Hoover