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Show Delegates to Go to . tavMpldged BOSTON, April 25 None of the candidates for delegates at large to the Republican and Democratic national conventions will appear on tho ballot at the Massachusetts primaries on Tuesday next as pledged to vote for any particular man for the presiden-I presiden-I tial nomination; The Democratic can-j can-j dldatos have made statements as to j their presidential preference, i Four of the Republican candidates ;arc running as a group, although un-ider un-ider the law they must be voted for 'separately. They aro Senator Honry Cabot Lodge, Speaker F. H. Gillett, of tho national house of representatives, representa-tives, former Senator W. Murray Crane and Edward A. Thurston, former chairman chair-man of Republican state committee. Although all are unpledged, Senator Lodge has announced that he will present pre-sent tho name of Governor Coolldge to tho covention if the governor desires it. Tho other candidates for the four places as Republican delegates at large are former Governor Samuel W. McCall, who has declared himself in favor of the nomination of Herbert Hoover; former Lieutenant Governor Lewis A. Frothingham, who has announced an-nounced that the will vote for Major General Wood, with Hoover as second choice; Congressman Alvan T. Fuller, who has publicly pledged himself to vote for Wood; Thomas W. Lawson and Russell A. Wood. On tho Democratic ticket, the "regular" "reg-ular" slate Is composed of Senator David Da-vid I. Walsh, Richard H. Long, twice Democratic nominee for governor; District Dis-trict Attornoy Joseph 9. Pellitier, and Daniel F. Doherty. Former Congressman Congress-man Joseph F. O'Connell, only other candidate, has made his campaign on the declaration that he will work for an anti-prohibition plank in the platform plat-form to be adopted at San Francisco. |