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Show Pledged to Use Every Effort at Command to Obtain His Nomination. HEATED CONTEST OVER GEN. WOOD Senator Carries State-Wide Plurality Iron-Glad Promise Prom-ise Is Opposed. KALAMAZOO. Mich.. May 5. Michigan's Mich-igan's thirty delegates to the Republican Repub-lican national convention were pledged by the state convention today to uso every effort at their command to obtain ob-tain the nomination of Senator Hiram W. Johnson for president and to stand by him as long as he has a chance for the nomination. A heated contest developed in tho meeting of the resolutions committee when Johnson supporters sought to effect ef-fect a stronger endorsement with an iron-clad pledge for their candidate and were opposed by backers of Major General Leonard Wood, who carried eight of the congressional districts in the primary although Johnson won a: state-wide plurality. Four delegates-at-large, two of whom supported Wood in tho primary race, were chosen by tuo convention. The delegation consists of CharleB W. Burton. Detroit; Claud H. Hamilton, Hamil-ton, Grand Rapids; Robert K. Shield, Houghton, and Mrs. Grace G. Brown, Ann Arbor. Burton and Mrs. Brown are Johnson supporters, while Shields and Hamilton Hamil-ton were said to favor Wood. Resolutions adopted endorsed a national na-tional budget system, a deep waterway from tho Great Lakes to tho Atlantic and establishment of a federal commission com-mission to arbitrate labor difficulties. Senator Johnson was unable to appear at the convention. nn |