Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-23 | Page 1 | Bryan Holds Fourth Place in Primaries

Plurality Rolled by Hiram W. Johnson Over Wood Is Increased LINCOLN. Nebr. April 23 The plurality polled by United States Senator Sen-ator Hiram W. Johnson of California over Major-Genoral Leonard Wood for Republican presidential preference prefer-ence In Tuesday's Nebraska primary has increased to 15,021, according to returns compiled by the Lincoln Daily Star. Figures from 7 7 of the state's 93 counties estimated by the Star to represent rep-resent SO per cent of the total vote in the state give Johnson 51,S0S;. Wood 36.7S7 and Pershing 24. COS, while with approximately the same number of precincts reported on Democratic presidential preference show United States Senator G. M. Hitchcock has 30,452 as compared to 10.S45 for his only opponent, Robert Ross, of Lexington, Lex-ington, Nebr. William Jennings Bryan, in the contest con-test for delegate at large to the Democratic national convention retains re-tains fourth place on the face of returns re-turns from 79 counties representing a voto which' tabulators here figure to be four-fifths of the state complete. com-plete. With four to be chosen, two Hitchcock men wore in first and second sec-ond place while one of the Bryan candidates was in third. For Republican delegates at largo four lo be elected) three candidates nominated by the Wood forces but who were also endorsed by the Johnson John-son organization, arc leading on the face of returns estimated by the Star to be SO per cent of all votes cast while E. J. Burkott. a Pershing candidate, candi-date, was fourth. All of them, however, how-ever, the attorney-general's office has held, arc morally bound to adhere to the presidential preference as expressed ex-pressed by the voters.