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Show HERE IS REPUBLICAN SITUATION 18 DAYS BEFORE CONVENTION CHICAGO, 111.. May 20. With the Republican national convention' conven-tion' only eighteen days away and SS9 of the 9SI delegates already elected, the situation facing the Republican candidates is that no candidate will enter the convention conven-tion with enough votes pledged to him to give him any decided advantage ad-vantage over his opponents. Forty-seven . of the fifty three states and territories have chosen their delegations and are sending to Chicago 537 uninstructed delegates, dele-gates, forty-four more than a majority ma-jority of all those who will sit In tho convention. Major General Leonard Wood on the face of returns to date?1 will show the most strength on the first ballot, for of those delegates who have been instructed or who have expressed a preference, 145 are pledged to him. In addition, he carried the .preferential primary in Vermont, but that state's eight delegates have not yet been chosen by tho stato convention. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, Cali-fornia, who commands an even hundred votes, is second, whilo Gov. Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois, with 78 votes pledged him is third Senator Warren J. Harding, of Ohio; has 39, votes from His home . stato. ."'-'3- ' . . .J.- 'bore',are, ahowever,$ontesi3 pending in twelve statos.sm:d tho District of Columbia, involving 101" delegates. Thirty-five of the contests con-tests are on Wood delegates; six , on Lowden men and 63 among uninstructed un-instructed delegations. Tho credentials', cre-dentials', committee will meet hero May 31 to thresh out -these contests. con-tests. 1 ' Campaign managers at Chicago, Chica-go, for tho various candidates agree that thero will bo no nomination nomina-tion on the first ballot The complimentary com-plimentary vole for the large list of "favorte sons" may, in fact, they T say, bo so large that it will destroy de-stroy the usual significance of tho first ballot as an indicator of tho strength of the various candidates. Among those candidates who are expected to divide tho uninstructed uninstruct-ed vote on the first ballot, in many cases commanding all or part of tho delegates from their home states, are Governor Sproul, Pennsylvania; Penn-sylvania; Governor Coolidge Massachusetts; Mass-achusetts; Senator Sutherland, West Virginia; Senator Poindex-ter, Poindex-ter, Washington; Senator LaFol-lette LaFol-lette "Wisconsin; Dr. Murray Nicholas Nich-olas Butler, New York; Herbert Hoover California, and Judge Prit-chard Prit-chard North Carolina. Senator Poindexter has fourteen Instructed votes from Washing-. Washing-. ton; Judge Prltchard seventeen from North Carolina; Governor Coolidge thirty-three from Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, and the other candidates have or expect to have varying numbers. Campaign managers of the three candidates who are leading in delegates del-egates actually instructed havo made claims as to the vote they expect to receive in the convention Major General Wood's headquarters headquar-ters has issued a statement claiming claim-ing he will have from 297 to 302 .votes on. the first ballot;;' ?.that: ho ; f;wlllab'fr6mf 12 to 20 on." the sec- 6rt!baJlot; urid that lie will ibe nominated on the third or fourth. The Johnson managers here say reports from their workers throughout tho country show they will have 335 votes on the first ballot and that tho senator will be nominated on the third or fourth. Governor Lowden's managers give no estimate ot how many votes they expect to have on the first ballot, but in a published statement havo assured the governor gover-nor ho will win the nomination with 522 votes. They predict the break in his favor will come after the third ballot. |