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Show I, Boiled Down News I From Political Pot v 8 SAN FRANCIS GO, May C With 'jj California presidential preference pri- y mary returns from 103 of the 5707 pre- cincts in the state missing late tonight, J delegates pledged to support Senator P Hiram W. Johnson for the presidential (I nomination at the Chicago convention led the group pledged to Herbert C. 1 Hoover by 159,263 votes. The vote I mnf. TUv, 4tnl.nl Ofll I ? T . TT f ticket 208,202. - NEW YORK, May 7. Governor Ed-I Ed-I wards of New Jersey last night became an avowed and active candidate for the I Democratic nomination for president I, of the United States. Walter W. Vick j personal friend of the governor, is-I is-I sued the formal announcement of his candidacy nd 0f the opening here of I Edwards' campaign headquarters. "Governor Edwards begin his campaign cam-paign without any political machinery machin-ery or prestige lent him from any source," Mr. Tick said. "He runs on his record as governor of New Jersey ' as its former comptroller and as a man r of affairs in the business and financial world of this country for the past 25 years. His riso In tho business world II as' a self-made man, as well as his en- tire career, both business and political, presents abundant proof of his sympa-; sympa-; thetic regard for the great productive forces of tho country." PHOENIX, Ariz., May 7. As a member mem-ber of tho national advisory council of the Republican party, Governor Campbell Camp-bell of Arizano, president of the league Df the southwest, declared in an address ad-dress at St. David, Ariz., today, he would recommend a plank reviving the reclamation program and calling for I Immediate construction of feasible i nrolects in the' arid west, according in I' a dispatch from St. David to the Arl- tona Republican. ALBANY, N. Y., May 7. New York's delegation to tho national Democratic convention at San Francisco went on record as favoring tho unit rule. A resolution by former Congressman George R. Lunn of Schenectady, opposing oppos-ing the rule was voted down, 64 to 8. |