Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1919 — WOOD LEADS IN STRAW VOTE. [ARTICLE]

WOOD LEADS IN STRAW VOTE.

Crawfordsville, Ind., Dec. 12. Major-General Leonard Wood ? United States army, is the favorite of Wabash college students for the presidency, according to the result of votes cast in secret ballot by the students and faculty. With practically 200 men voting, forty-one favdred Major-General Wood. Governor Coolidge, of Massachusetts, was second with twenty-five; W. G. McAdoo, formerly secretary of the treasury, third, with twenty-four votes; Governor Lowden, of Illinois, fourth with eighteen votes, and Herbert Hoover, formerly federal food administrator, fifth, with eleven votes. In the voting, a list of twentythree names was submitted for the consideration of the voters, including practically every man who has been suggested as a candidate.