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Show TALK DF DARK i HORSES GROWS i AT CONVENTION! i Leaders Worn and Sleepless; Upon Arrival for Another Tough Day SUPPORTERS OF BIG THREEjrriLL HOPEFUL Everybody Hoping President) Can Be Nominated Before i Tomorrow ! i COLISEUM. CHICAGO. June 12. 1 Launching into its fifth ballot today hi search of a nominee for the presi-j deney, the Republican national con-, vention was prepared to have some further tests of strength between Lowden. Wood and Johnson and then, if necessary, turn to the string of dark horses. - The all-night conferences among leaders had put Senator Harding, of Ohio, at the head of the dark horse group. All night long and early this morn-j lng the heads of various groups were conferring with the trend of most of ' he conference seemed to be to find' some way lo turn Wood and l.owdenl strength to Harding. ) Worn and Sleepless. The leaders, worn and sleepless, were late In reaching convention hall but the delegates were there. Interest j raised to fever heat, come early hoping hop-ing to see the thing finished so that they may got away for home today. I The leadci'3 remained in the down- town conference rooms until the Iast minute, many of them snatching a fiiwi momen ta-o f.tresr'as - they-' held- Uedsldc j conferences. ' ! . Meanwhile "Wood. Lowdcn and I Johnson forces were attempting toi tighten lines and both the Lowden and Wood groups were predicting they would show greater strength on the opening ballot of today than they dldj on the closing ballot of yesterday when the convention adjourned after) a hot gruelling ten-hour session. Before the convention assembled, the stales caucused trying lo decldo on) where to put their strength. Both Lowden and Wood were claiming "accessions "ac-cessions from that quarter. Ten o'clock, the hour for the reconvening, re-convening, passed by and tho leaders still were slow In arriving. Tho visitors' vis-itors' galleries were rather thin In spots, the prospects for another blistering blis-tering day probably melting the Interest Inter-est of many. After Second Ballot. Senator Harry S. New, chairman of the Indiana delegation, said on arriving arriv-ing at convention hall thai tho switch vlilch ocryone was looking for, probably prob-ably would come after Ihe second ballot bal-lot of the day. Other early arrivals declared the Wood column probably would show fifty more ballots on tho fifth ballot today than It did on the last vote yesterday. yes-terday. Those persons argued that Wood . must be considered a strong contender so long aa he lost no delegates dele-gates and they said there wero no 3igns of defections. The early speculation on possible changes in position centered around New lork and Pennsylvania. The two heavy blocl.o cast for any candidate always go far In psychological psychologi-cal and actual effect. Major Frank C. Knox, of New Hampshire, floor leader for tho Wood forces, said on reaching convention hall: "General Wood will gain on every ballot today. The big jump will come when we are able to break Into the Johnson voio where most of our reserves re-serves lie. 4 l'ennsylvaidn In Limelight, "If Pennsylvania I reaks rrom Sproul tho delegates cannot be delivered deliv-ered lo any hand-picked candidate. We have a lot of strength there." Indiana caucused on the floor. As iho men who conducted the-dark horse conference arrived they said the situation wa3 unchanged and that the attempt to nominate Senator Harding would be continued. Some of the men running iho Lowden Low-den campaign on tho floor predicted that the convention would keep right on balloting until tho Lowden total passed Wood's. Bishop Nicholson of Chicago offered offer-ed prayer. |