Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1920 — JOHNSON HAS LEAD OF 14,000 AS COUNT NEARS CLOSE [ARTICLE]

JOHNSON HAS LEAD OF 14,000 AS COUNT NEARS CLOSE

Omaha, Neb., April 22.—witn a little more than two-thirds of the precincts of Nebraska heard from and tallied by the newspaper bureaus, Senator Hiram Johnson is leading General Wood in the republican preference primary by 14,241 votes. The result of the tabulation of 1,265 precincts out of 1,849 in the.state .including Douglas county (Omaha) shows the following vote: Johnson, 47,888; Wood, 33,647; Pershing, 21,591. , William Jennings Bryan, who is running in fourth place for delegate at large for the San Francisco convention, continued to show slight gains over Berge, a Bryan candidate, who is in fifth place. On the face of returns thus far received Neville and Shallenberger, Hitchcock delegates, lead' the field of eight candidates with Stephens, the high man of the Bryan candidates, in third Dlace.