Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1920 — ILLINOIS NEXT HURDLE IN OBSTACLE RACE [ARTICLE]

ILLINOIS NEXT HURDLE IN OBSTACLE RACE

iNew York, April B.—lllinois is the next hurdle in the obstacle race' for the presidential nominations. Preferential primaries will be held there next Tuesday. Fiftyeight Republicans and a like ?Ffimber of Democratic delegates to the national conventions are affected. Illinois has its own “favorite son” candidate for Republican honor— Governor Frank O. Lowden. Nevertheless Major General Leonard Wood has invaded that state ill a spirited campaign for its endorsement. The Wood organization bases its hopes on the fact Lowden trailed the general badly in the Michigan primaries, where both had conducted equally strong drives for Republican votes. The fight in Illinois is expected to he limited to these two, as Senator Hiram Josnson, who carried Michigan, and Herbert Hoover, who ran next to Lowden in Michigan, have made no campaign there. Neither the New York nor the Wisconsin primaries Tuesday clarified the situation in the two major parties. The delegations of both state are unpledged. The New York Republicans are expected to cast their votes on the first ballot for Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University. After that it is believed the delegation will “ride” with the winner. No one has attempted to claiip the state’s ninety Democratic delegates. Governor Edward I. Edwards, of New Jersey, and Wm. G. McAdoo and Attorney General A. Mitehell Palmer appear to be equally popular. To date Wood continues to lead the Republican Candidates with six-ty-three instructed delegates.