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Show the chair ruled an adjournment hul been voted. Back to the council rooms went the leaders, nnd to these rooms were summoned sum-moned the men who wore dir?eting the fights of the candidates. Efforts were made to bring about some sort of a compromise that would result In a nomination on Saturday morning. But threats, promises and appeals In the interests of party harmony were all Harding Nominated By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON. For President: Warren G. Harding, of Ohio. For Vice-President: Calvin Coolidge, of Massachusetts Convention Hull, Chicago. The nomination nom-ination for president was made on the tenth ballot. The vole on that ballot for the men who had been the leading candidates was: Harding, 647; Wood, ISTVss ; Eowden, 12; Johnson, 80 4-5. After it is all over, that is the news it took five strenuous days to produce; pro-duce; that Is all that the great mass of the public will remember. But for those who had a part in the contest it will be an experience to he remenv bered for a lifetime, and the convention conven-tion of 1920 will go down in the history his-tory of the Republican party as one of the hurdest waged, battles of the party's existence. It was a battle of which the audience saw but little that was spectacular; a show that did not measure up to the expectations of the thousands who had begged and fought for and purchased tickets, and who had jammed themselves into the great building session after session, sweltering swelter-ing and roasting, and always anticipating antici-pating something worth while. The public did not see the real fight, as they were not admitted to the council coun-cil rooms where the differences of contesting con-testing candidates were Ironed out, or where the varying opinions of different dif-ferent factions were being reconciled so that a platform that would fit all elements might be produced. The unusual un-usual conditions of the times had produced pro-duced a wide range of Ideas. Men differed dif-fered radically on important points upon which the party must go to the public as a unit if it is to have a chance of being successful In November, Novem-ber, and it was not an easy task to formalities were completed, and un adjournment taken to' 1 o'clock of Thursday. Again the crowd came back. Tlie convention convened. Cardinal Car-dinal Gibbons offered an invocation, and the convention adjourned to four o'clock. With it never ending interest tlie crowd was again back at four o'clock only to wait for two long, sweltering hours for the fight on the platform which they were anticipating, hut which did not materialize. The fight, had ail been made behind the closed doors of the council rooms, and with the exception of the presentation of a minority report by a member of the committee from Wisconsin, to which no particular attention was paid, there was no evidence that there had ever been a disagreement, and tlie platform was adopted with less than half a dozen dissenting votes. Friday gave promise of being a red letter day for the audience and the fight for the coveted bits of beautifully beauti-fully engraved cardboard waxed hot and heavy. At nine-thirty in the morning, when the session opened, every seat wras filled, every aisle was jammed with an expectant multitude. It was to be a day of oratory, and it was. The first order of business was fhe call of the states for the naming of candidates for the nomination for the presidency. Arizona yielded to Kansas and Governor Allen took the platform to name General Wood. The audience heard what Governor Allen had to say, and attention was given to the seconding speeches and to the speech of Congressman Rodenberg on behalf of Governor Lowden. When Judge Wheeler of California, started to present the name of Senator Johnson John-son the audience had had enough of oratory. The distinguished. Calif or-nian or-nian referred to the league of nations plank as Senator Johnson's plank, and both delegates and the audience ob- m vain, xtie three candidates, Wood, Lowden and Johnson, who were leaders lead-ers in tlie voting, refused to give place to any one on whom the senatorial leaders could agree. They wanted to let the delegates fight it out on the floor of .the convention and continue the balloting until the delegates bad expressed their choice for the first place on the ticket without any influence influ-ence being exerted on the part of tin party leaders, and temporarily won. When the first ballot was taken at the session of Saturday morning it showed but little change from those of Friday night. Through the first four ballots of Saturday, General Wood and Governor Lowden were running run-ning neck and neck and on one ballot were tied with 311 votes each. Again there came a demand for adjournment ad-journment and again the Wood nnd Lowden forces combined to prevent it, but without result. After another another an-other consultation at the back of the speaker's stand between half a dozen senatorial leaders the session was adjourned ad-journed despite the protests of a large part of the delegates. Almost instantly there flashed through the great building the rumor that the leaders had decided on Senator Sen-ator Harding as the man if they could force his nomination, and they were going to try. Could they do it? Did the leaders control enough delegates to name the leader of the party ticket? The general gen-eral verdict 'was that they could, that the unrestricted delegates would do their bidding. Senator Johnson and General Wood refused to release their instructed delegates, and on the ninth ballot the Illinois delegation stayed with Governor Lowden, the Pennsyl-I Pennsyl-I vanla delegation stayed w;ith Governor Sproul, and the New York delegation continued to split among several candidates. can-didates. At the end of that ballot Senator Harding lacked 120 votes of enough to nominate him and it was thought for a time the leaders were going to fail, until Governor Sproul was known to have released the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania delegation to Harding, and with that the effort to climb into th Harding wagon started, on the tentB and final ballot. In the end all in. structed delegations were released, buH many of them declined to change thei last registered vote, and the final baV lot was announced as given at th head of this account. All through the balloting 24 Wisconsin delegates had persistently registered their votes for Senator LaFollette, and when, aftet the last ballot had been announced it was moved to make the nomination unanimous these 24 delegates voted against the motion. It took but a short time to select Governor Harding's running mate. Governor Coolidge, Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, Senator Gronna of North Dakota, Governor Allen of Kansas, and Colonel Anderson of Richmond, Va., were named as candidates for the place. There was but one ballot. Governor Coolidge receiving G7G votes, and the ticket was complete. The Republican Re-publican convention of 1920 was a thing of the past. One of the features for which the convention just closed will long be remembered re-membered was the participation of the women. It is doubtful if they had any decisive part in the actual naming of the candidate, other than the few who were present as delegates, mir women figured prominently on the minor committees, and they figured prominently in the oratorical efforts, and very much to their credit. At least one woman seconded the nonv Inntion of each of the candidates foi the nomination for the presidency, and their speeches appealed to the audience because they were short and to the point. Women were active as workers around the headquarters of every candidate. They gave out red, blue and gi-een feathers for General WTood, badges and pennants for Governor Gov-ernor Lowden, served tea qnd cakes for Herbert Hoover, and did something some-thing of a like service for each of the candidates. At General Wood's headquarters Mrs. Wood and her daughter had a handshake and a gracious word for every caller, but they refused at all times to talk politics. On the other hand the daughter of Nicholas Murray Butler was the real manager )i her father's campaign. Herbert Hoover at no time showed any strength in the balloting. For the first nine ballots his total vote was from four to six, and on the tenth ballot he polled nine votes. When his name was presented to the convention on Friday by Judge Miller of Syracuse, Syra-cuse, New York, a delegate from that state, he received a demonstration from the audience that was one of the marked and unusual features of the convention, but it was not joined in by any of the delegations. It was very evident that Hoover had no place In Republican politics. With some difficulty Chairman Lodge, whose voice was gone, managed man-aged to hold the delegates together long enough to pass the usual resolutions resolu-tions of thanks to the officials of the convention and to the City of Chicago, and then the Republican convention of 1920 came to an end. The management manage-ment of tlie convention hall really deserved de-served thanks, for th seating, tho policing and other arrangements were the best ever seen in such gathering. |