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Show MANY DELEGATES ILL PIEO; Important Primaries and State Conventions Being Held This Week NEW YORlZ May" 2. Fifty-four delegates to the Republican national 1 convention and sixty-eight delegatos lie the Democratic national convention will be selected in primaries and state 1 conventions to be held this week In I addition Indiana, which sends thirty delegates to each national convention, will hold a preferential presidential primary Tuesday, preparatory to the Republican and Democratic state conventions con-ventions May 12 and May IS respectively, respec-tively, at which 'the delegates' are se lected. Utah Republicans hold a state convention con-vention at Price today at which eight delegates are to be chosen, four dis-, trict delegates and four at large. Sen- ator Hiram Johnson, of California,! Governor Frank O. Lowdeu, of Illinois,! and Major General Leonard Wood each J have conducted a campaign in Ulah.i although it ia possible that an unin-i strucled delegation may be chosen. Maryland to Hold Primary. I Sixteen delegates to each national convention will be elected at the presidential pres-idential preference primary In Maryland Mary-land tomorrow. Senator Johnson and General Wood are the pricipal Republican Repub-lican presidential contestants, electors also having the opportunity to vote for uninstructed delegates. There are no Democratic presidential candidates on the ballot, and the delegates will go to the San Francisco convention uninstructed. unin-structed. Kentucky elects 26 delegates to the Democratic national convention at a state convention in Louisville on Tuesday. Tues-day. The principal contest will be between be-tween delegates wishing to go to the national convention uninstructed' an.l : those pledged to Governor James M. Cox of Ohio. California to Divide Honors. i California holds a state wide primary1 Tuesday to choose 26 delegates each to the "Republican. Democratic and j prohibition national conventions. Chief Interest there centers in the fight between be-tween a group of Republican candidates candi-dates for delegates-at-large ipledged to Senator Johnson and another group pledged to Herbert Hoover. On the Democratic ticket In Cali-! fornla Henry M .Childera of Los An- geles who favors a liberal interpretation interpreta-tion of the national prohibition amend I ment, is running as a lone candidate ! against a group of 26 unpledged can-! didates. There is no contest in the) prohibition party, the 26 candidates being pledges to the candidacy of Henry Hen-ry Clay Needham, of Los Angeles. Primary in Indiana Tuesday. There are four Republican candidates candi-dates n the preferential presidential primary in Indiana on Tuesday. They are Governor Low den, General Wood, Senator Warren G Harding, of Ohio, and Senator Johnson. The delegates to be chosen at the state convention later will bo instructed for the presidential presi-dential candidates receiving a majority vote in the primary. If no candidate receives a majority, the state candidate candi-date may either Instruct Us delegates for any ono candidate or allow them to go to the convention uninstructed. The names of no candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination will appear on the ballot In Indiana although voters have tho privilege of writing In names of candidates If I they desire. The name of . G. Webster, Web-ster, of New York, appears on me bal lot as a candidate ior tne Republican I ' nomination for vice-presld.nt I The Republican state convention in Michigan to be held Wednesday, will name four delegates at largo to the! national gathering. Chief interest' mere centenj in the tone of resolutions ': expected to be adopted endorsing Sen-1 ator Johnson. Although he won the; slate primary presidential preference1 by 44,000, the senator failed' in the! popular vote to carry seven of the thir- teen congressional districts. Of the1 nine dlBt'rict conventions already eld! five pledged i..elr delerates to John-laon, John-laon, while four districls named un:n-( 'strucled delegates. Wiluon Repudiators Snowed Under. J" I DALiuAkj, Tex., May 2. The element!, of the Democratic party of Texas j; which sought to repudiate President' Wilson and his administration met de-j 'feat in a veritable landslide at Satur-' day's Democratic precinct conventions,' according to additional but Incomplete, unofficial returns received today. Latest figures showed definitely that those favoring the na.ional adminis tration had won 1200 of e 1-100 votes i in the state Democratic convention on; May 25. The anti-administration for-i ces, headed by former United states! Senator Joseph W. Bai. ; , according to: available returns, had won 49 of the( state convention voles. One hundred, and fifty-one votes were still unac-i counted for in the'offic al returns. Although the endoi'sement ot ootl- row. Wilson was overwhelming, none! of the returns mentioned a preference j for any candidate for the Democratic; presidential nomination. j |